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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

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Recent Guests

Christopher de Bellaigue
Author of The Golden Throne
Bodley Head (publisher)
Episode: Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)
Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Environmental Studies, University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Episode: Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
Assistant Professor of History in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, chair of Ottoman Studies Initiative
New York University
Episode: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, "Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Alex Boodrookas
Assistant Professor of History at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Episode: Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Samantha Ellis
Author of Always Carry Salt, A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
Pegasus Books (publisher)
Episode: Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
Adrian Ciani
Author of Contesting Zion, The Vatican, American Catholics, and The Partition of Palestine
McGill-Queen's University Press
Episode: Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Marielle Risse
Author of Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman
Author, Ethnography of Dhofar
Episode: Marielle Risse, "Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman" (Anthem Press, 2026)
Robert Templer
Author of The Shah's Party and The Iranian Revolution That Followed
Author, The Shah's Party
Episode: Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)
Anand Gopal
Author of Days of Love and Rage; correspondant and scholar
The New Yorker contributor, author
Episode: Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)

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4.1 out of 5 stars from 84 ratings
  • Fascinating and illuminating. Fresh take on Arabic culture

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    indigonegative
    5 months ago
  • Fantastic show!

    Always fascinating, and makes me want to do Middle Eastern Studies at uni!! The range of guests is especially fantastic, and the interview is in-depth, but accessible. Some audio quality problems, but otherwise always excellent

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Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: How did the enslaved individuals' stories emerge from the Geniza materials, and what kinds of voices do we hear most clearly?
The Geniza yields individual stories through documentary fragments—writings about family, sale, or custody—that illuminate personal experiences, such as women and children navigating ownership, manumission, and social mobility, though many voices are still barely visible due to fragmentary records.
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: What were the main categories of slavery in Jewish law as discussed in your book, and how did they differ from Islamic law?
Medieval Jewish law recognized categories like Hebrew slaves and perpetual Canaanite slaves, with different durations and rules for manumission and status, while Islamic law allowed broader slave ownership but also provided protections and a framework that influenced how Jews and Christians practiced slavery within their communities and courts.
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Can you situate us what's going on in Medieval Egypt and what is the Cairo Geniza in relation to your study?
Medieval Cairo was a hub of global connectivity where Jewish life thrived under Islamic rule, and the Geniza served as a vast repository of everyday documents—letters, deeds, and court records—that reveal the social networks, household economies, and slave practices of the time, enabling a granular look at slavery within a living urban society.
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Q: Why does the author frame Palestine as an agrarian question rather than a traditional geopolitical problem?
The author argues that focusing on agrarian aspects reveals how labor, ownership, and ecological changes shape resistance and anti-colonial projects, offering a dynamic view that moves beyond binaries like Israel-Palestine to include class, gender, and generations in land struggles.
Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Q: What role did migration studies and non-citizen labor play in understanding Gulf political economy beyond simple supply-demand narratives?
The book reframes migration as a process of exclusion and political economy, showing non-citizens as active political actors whose rights and mobility shaped labor, immigration control, and national development in the Gulf.

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A rigorous, academically oriented series that features in-depth conversations with scholars and authors about politically and historically significant topics in the Middle East and surrounding regions. Episodes frequently explore Islamism and labor, minority and nationalist dynamics, Zionism and Palestinian narratives, media representation, exile and diaspora experiences, and Gulf politics and economies. Guests are often book authors, university professors, or researchers, and conversations tend to connect historical context with contemporary issues, often drawing on fieldwork, archival sources, or methodological innovations. A notable strength is its ability to pair theoretical frameworks with concrete case studies, giving listeners both c... more

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