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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

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

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Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim, "External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)

Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim, "External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)

Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim’s edited volume, External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies(Routledge, 2018) is a timely co... Read more

28 Dec 2018

1hr

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Adam Mestyan, “Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Adam Mestyan, “Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Studies of Arab nationalism populate the field of Middle Eastern studies, perhaps even overpopulate it. However, what Ad... Read more

15 Jan 2018

49mins

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Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean" (U Penn Press, 2018)

Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean" (U Penn Press, 2018)

For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of  the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another. Moslems from North Af... Read more

5 Jun 2019

59mins

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Julian Bolleter, "Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model" (Routledge, 2019)

Julian Bolleter, "Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model" (Routledge, 2019)

Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model (Routledge, 2019) explores how designed landscapes can... Read more

17 Feb 2020

50mins

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Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, "Suez Deconstructed: An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking" (Brookings Institution, 2018)

Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, "Suez Deconstructed: An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking" (Brookings Institution, 2018)

Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step:  the Suez crisis of 1956— one of the major crises o... Read more

25 Jan 2019

1hr 10mins

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Asher Orkaby, “Beyond the Arab Cold War: The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Asher Orkaby, “Beyond the Arab Cold War: The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68” (Oxford UP, 2017)

The civil war in Yemen today harkens back to a similar conflict half a century ago, when the overthrow of the ruling ima... Read more

5 Sep 2017

59mins

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Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Ahmet T. Kuru’s new book Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge Uni... Read more

25 Mar 2020

1hr 1min

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Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)

Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)

Ever since their composition in the 13th century the poems of the Persian writer Rumi have enthralled millions of read... Read more

8 Jun 2017

48mins

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Ellen R. Wald, “Saudi Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit of Power and Profit” (Pegasus Books, 2018)

Ellen R. Wald, “Saudi Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit of Power and Profit” (Pegasus Books, 2018)

Ellen R. Wald’s timely, well-written history of the Saudi national oil company, Saudi Inc. The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit... Read more

17 Sep 2018

57mins

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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, “The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, “The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Over the past century, virtually every Iranian—whether living in Iran or in the diaspora—has been exposed, to one degree... Read more

20 Dec 2017

1hr 9mins

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Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds” (Pluto Press, 2018)

Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds” (Pluto Press, 2018)

Thomas Schmidinger‘s Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Pluto Press, 2018) is an exploration of th... Read more

5 Oct 2018

59mins

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“Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”

“Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”

Last week featured a year-end-round up of books in American politics. This week I looked back to the past year on the po... Read more

29 Dec 2016

13mins

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James Gelvin, “The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2012)

James Gelvin, “The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2012)

Professor James Gelvin joins host Jonathan Judaken to discuss the Arab Uprisings, democratization in the Middle-East and... Read more

3 Aug 2015

31mins

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Kenneth Garden, “The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Kenneth Garden, “The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) is one of the most famous Muslim thinkers in history. His autobiographical account, The D... Read more

21 Mar 2016

1hr 3mins

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Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)

Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)

In Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran (University of California Press, 201... Read more

22 Feb 2016

32mins

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Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (Yale UP, 2014)

Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (Yale UP, 2014)

This book tells a remarkable and–to me at least–little known but very important story. In Nazis, Islamists, and the Maki... Read more

11 May 2014

1hr 1min

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Betty S. Anderson, “A History of the Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues (Stanford UP, 2016)

Betty S. Anderson, “A History of the Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues (Stanford UP, 2016)

As the Middle East continues to become more topical to American and European audiences, a need for textbooks to teach th... Read more

16 Aug 2017

27mins

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Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her boo... Read more

10 Dec 2016

55mins

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, "The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, "The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan(Cambridge University Press, 2... Read more

29 Nov 2018

59mins

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Lewis Glinert, “The Story of Hebrew” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Lewis Glinert, “The Story of Hebrew” (Princeton UP, 2017)

For this episode, New Books in Jewish Studies interviews Lewis Glinert, Professor of Hebrew Studies at Dartmouth College... Read more

11 Apr 2017

34mins

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