Recent Episodes
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Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Jun 6, 2025 – 55:27 -
Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
Jun 6, 2025 – 35:47 -
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jun 3, 2025 – 01:25:09 -
Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
May 31, 2025 – 01:08:05 -
Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
May 30, 2025 – 01:05:00 -
Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
May 29, 2025 – 47:07 -
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
May 23, 2025 – 01:03:20 -
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
May 21, 2025 – 01:02:12 -
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
May 19, 2025 – 30:41 -
Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021)
May 18, 2025 – 42:31 -
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 17, 2025 – 01:02:37 -
Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
May 14, 2025 – 29:32 -
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
May 14, 2025 – 49:51 -
Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
May 6, 2025 – 59:11 -
Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 3, 2025 – 01:11:54 -
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
Apr 13, 2025 – 40:45 -
Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:34 -
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
Apr 6, 2025 – 48:42 -
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:11:28 -
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Mar 31, 2025 – 51:55 -
Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
Mar 30, 2025 – 43:34 -
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 29, 2025 – 27:23 -
Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq
Mar 28, 2025 – 56:11 -
"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 26, 2025 – 01:06:57 -
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 23, 2025 – 43:07 -
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 22, 2025 – 01:06:16 -
Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Mar 18, 2025 – 01:34:45 -
Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop
Mar 15, 2025 – 01:12:53 -
Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Mar 14, 2025 – 32:00 -
Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 14, 2025 – 01:07:46 -
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 13, 2025 – 38:29 -
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 12, 2025 – 53:20 -
On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 10, 2025 – 42:55 -
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:31:42 -
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 8, 2025 – 01:04:03 -
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 8, 2025 – 43:49 -
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:06:22 -
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
Mar 6, 2025 – 46:52 -
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:15:06 -
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 28, 2025 – 46:08 -
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 28, 2025 – 01:27:49 -
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:00:42 -
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Feb 25, 2025 – 01:18:38 -
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 24, 2025 – 01:08:12 -
Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
Feb 23, 2025 – 49:54 -
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:10:52 -
Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
Feb 19, 2025 – 49:11 -
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Feb 19, 2025 – 56:25 -
Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 16, 2025 – 01:15:48 -
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 16, 2025 – 26:09
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