New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-08 09:25
- last episode published
- 2025-03-08 09:00
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-08 |
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023) In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Raja Aderdor, the host, delves deeper into this fascinating work with Jeremy Farrell, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Leiden University, who co-authored a translation of this novella. Jeremy shares his in... |
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| 2025-03-08 | On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli army in the Sinai, had hobbled their British and US allies, and were liberating Palestine. It was a lie. F... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025) The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its sh... |
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| 2025-03-06 |
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS) John joins Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian for the roundup episode of the second series of Violent Majorities, focusing on long-distance ethnonationalism. Looking back at their conversations with Peter Beinart on Zionism and Subir Sinha on Hindutva,... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality. According to Noam Leshem in Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land (U Chicago Press, 2025)... |
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| 2025-02-28 | Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, and when is it not? Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They K... |
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| 2025-02-28 |
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019) In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Britain's Pacification of Palestine (Cambridge UP, 2019), Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. ... |
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| 2025-02-26 | Today, when we think about Gaza we think about the war, the destruction of the city and the constant movement of its population. In contemporary public discourse, Gaza tends to be characterized solely as a theatre of the ongoing conflict between Israel... |
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| 2025-02-25 |
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) unfolds and analyzes the work of Moroccan director, producer, and scriptwriter Farida Benlyazid, whose career extends from the beginning of cinema in independent Morocco to the present. Th... |
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| 2025-02-24 | Raised in the JuderĂa or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to JosĂ©, an uncouth man from her own community who has returned from Argentina to take a wife. Mazaltob, how... |
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