Episode 351 with Seth Kimmelhosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 1609 the Moriscos were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, marking the end of a hundred year effort to assimilate as New Christians these form

Episode 350 with Hanan Hammadhosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egyp

Episode 349 with Noémi Lévy-Aksuhosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Idare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), loosely translated as a “state of emergency or siege,” was a neologism introduced in t

Episode 348 with Alexander Bevilacquahosted by Maryam Patton and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When and how did European scholars first begin to seriously study Islam and the Arabic language? It has often been

Episode 347 with Rana Issahosted by Shireen Hamza Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What are the origins of the Arabic language, and what are its foundational texts? Most writers of lexicons of the Arabic language center the Arab

Episode 346 with Jan Haenraetshosted by Nir Shafir and Polina Ivanova Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Over the course of the seventeenth century, Kashmir became a valley adorned with gardens as Mughal emperors and nobles built

Episode 345 with Will Hanleyhosted by Taylor M. Moore Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his

Episode 344 with Gershon Shafirhosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast  Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War and the start of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsul

Episode 343 with Taieb Belghazi & Abdelhay Mouddenhosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How do we assess fizzling protest movements? How do social scientists account for difficult-to-quantify facets of p

Episode 342 with Selcen CoşkunLorans Tanatar Baruhand Seda Kula Sayhosted by Nilay Özlü, Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we discuss the history of Beyoğlu's Emek Cinem