New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1112 Episodes

1. Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)

   Published: 8/7/2025
2. Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)

   Published: 8/4/2025
3. William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 8/3/2025
4. Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)

   Published: 8/3/2025
5. Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 7/30/2025
6. Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 7/28/2025
7. Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)

   Published: 7/27/2025
8. Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/24/2025
9. Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)

   Published: 7/23/2025
10. Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 7/22/2025
11. Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

    Published: 7/21/2025
12. M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/20/2025
13. Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 7/16/2025
14. Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)

    Published: 7/16/2025
15. Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)

    Published: 7/14/2025
16. Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)

    Published: 7/11/2025
17. Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)

    Published: 7/11/2025
18. Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/9/2025
19. Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

    Published: 7/8/2025
20. Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/4/2025