Making the Arab World: A Review
Yoav Di-Capua Reviews Fawaz Gerges Sayyid Qutb’s friends and associates are finally talking. They didn’t say much in prison during the 1950s and 1960s,
... [Read More]
Middle East
Jewish Girls in Medieval Egypt
Amit Gvaryahu Reviews Eve Krakowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt Eve Krakowski’s masterful new book shows how minority community concerns are not
... [Read More]
An Act of Solidarity
Margaret Litvin Reviews We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman To an academic, any collection of “voices”
... [Read More]
Leonard Schwartz & Kathleen Eamon Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis
Poet Leonard Schwartz and philosopher Kathleen Eamon discuss Schwartz’s new book “The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis.”
... [Read More]
First Impressions #83: Amira Jarmakani on Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Popular “desert romance” novels reveal some of the cultural logic in the construction of U.S. imperialism and the war on terror. Kristian Petersen
... [Read More]
First Impressions #41: Christian C. Sahner
Dave Krueger talks with Christian C. Sahner about his book Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present. Sahner is a history research fellow
... [Read More]
ISIS, the Caliphate, and militant extremism in the Middle East: A Conversation with Carool Kersten
Carool Kersten, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam & the Muslim World in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King’s
... [Read More]
The Havoc Freedom Wrought – By David de Bruijn
Opinion: David de Bruijn proposes a reconsideration of authoritarianism They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny […] they which find themselves
... [Read More]