New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Sami Hermez, "My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine" (Redwood Press, 2024)
An interview with Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha
Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
An interview with Salar Mameni
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
An interview with Zahra Ayubi
Harry Pettit, "The Labor of Hope:: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2023)
An interview with Harry Pettit
Nadine A. Sinno, "A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut" (U Texas Press, 2024)
An interview with Nadine A. Sinno
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks withAmos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Among other rhe
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging" (Oxford UP, 2024)
An interview with Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
An interview with Maha AbdelMegeed
Tarek El-Ariss, "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" (Other Press, 2024)
An interview with Tarek El-Ariss
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
An interview with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky