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Q&A with Allen James Fromherz, author of "The Center of the World"
Nov 04 2024
For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.
Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
Oct 31 2024
In a time when essentialist narratives are all too often imposed, "Women, Faith, and Family" challenges the dominant understanding of women’s rights in Muslim societies, recognizing faith-based activism as a powerful force in shaping gender discourse.
Interview with Emrah Yildiz, author of "Zainab's Traffic"
Oct 16 2024
Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.
Lessons from the Middle East – 'the epicentre of climate discourse' – for a warming planet
Oct 14 2024
As climate change intensifies, we can learn a lot from the way that the Middle East has dealt with extreme heat. The region offers invaluable lessons – both cautionary and inspirational – for our warming world.
A Window into the Early Modern Mediterranean, through the Fascinating Life of Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî
Dec 20 2023
By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North AfricaWhen I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 - c.1640), I realized how the many threads of his life and career formulated a different
UC Press November Award Winners
Dec 01 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our November 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Reyhan Durmaz2023 Book Prize, Honorable MentionMiddle East MedievalistsRey
Q&A with Özge Yaka, author of Fighting for the River
Nov 30 2023
This interview was originally published on New Books Network and an excerpted version is reposted here with permission.Hello and welcome to New Books in Middle Eastern Studies. I am your host, Alize Arıcan. Today, I am joined by Özge Yaka, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geographical Scien
Reading List: Palestinian Studies
Nov 03 2023
In addition to the open-access series New Directions in Palestinian Studies, UC Press publishes numerous books that contribute to globalizing knowledge about Palestine’s history. This reading list is intended to enrich and expand discussions around the people and the place.
A Look Inside Novel Palestine
Nov 01 2023
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah examines these imaginative structures so that we might move bey
The Danger of the False Binary Between “Islam and the West”
Oct 31 2023
By Hamid Dabashi, author of The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the WestSo often we hear allusion to this idea of “Islam and the West.” A product of colonialism, this false and dangerous binary has created ongoing enmity and an illusion of two divided worlds. What do we even mean when we say “