1108 Episodes

  1. Faegheh Shirazi, “Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety” (U. Texas Press, 2016)

    Published: 9/5/2017
  2. Michael Allan, “In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2016)

    Published: 8/14/2017
  3. Nader Hashimi and Danny Postel, eds. “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 7/16/2017
  4. Erik Love, “Islamophobia and Racism in America” (NYU Press, 2017)

    Published: 6/26/2017
  5. Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)

    Published: 6/8/2017
  6. Nir Baram, “A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank” (Text Publishing Company, 2017)

    Published: 5/30/2017
  7. Joseph Lumbard, “The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary” (HarperOne, 2015)

    Published: 3/24/2017
  8. “Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”

    Published: 12/29/2016
  9. Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 12/10/2016
  10. Miki Kratsman with Ariella Azoulay, “The Resolution of the Suspect” (Radius Books, 2016)

    Published: 8/30/2016
  11. Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)

    Published: 7/25/2016
  12. Elizabeth Hurd, “Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion” (Princeton UP, 2015)

    Published: 6/27/2016
  13. Bard Kartveit, “Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians” (Brill, 2014)

    Published: 6/18/2016
  14. Marc Lynch, “The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East” (PublicAffairs, 2016)

    Published: 6/13/2016
  15. Asma Afsaruddin, “Contemporary Issues in Islam” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/4/2016
  16. Kishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015)

    Published: 2/8/2016
  17. Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran” (Duke UP, 2013)

    Published: 12/30/2015
  18. Marcia C. Inhorn, “The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East” (Princeton UP, 2012)

    Published: 12/18/2015
  19. Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)

    Published: 12/17/2015
  20. Erica Weiss, “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

    Published: 12/10/2015

53 / 56

Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies