New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
Latest Episodes
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
An interview with Jonathan Smolin
Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
An interview with Jae Hee Han
Cristiana Strava, "Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
An interview with Cristiana Strava
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
An interview with Robert D. Kaplan
Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
There have been Christians in the Holy Land for two thousand years; we are the first church, says Father Firas Abedrabbo who is from Bethlehem and works in Ramallah. He studied law in France and speaks excellent English and spoke with me about his exper
Emily Drumsta, "Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation" (U California Press, 2024)
An interview with Emily Drumsta
Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
An interview with Sumita Pahwa
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
An interview with Eric Calderwood
Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
An interview with Esra Mirze Santesso
Annika Schmeding, "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
An interview with Annika Schmeding