Middle Eastern Studies
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal
The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa
A groundbreaking history of Africa鈥檚 looted architectural heritage鈥攁nd a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent鈥檚 stolen cultural artifacts
How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival
A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats鈥攅xternal aggression and...
The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, and...