Ussama Makdisi: Narrating our Middle Eastern ...

In this episode, Tom is joined by Fargo Tbakhi, a queer Palestinian American writer and performance artist based in Washington D.C. and winner of 2018 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize. His writings have been published in various literary publications including The Berkeley ...  Show more

In this episode, Rafeef, Tayla, and Tom are joined by Ahmed Masoud, Gaza-born Palestinian writer, director, and academic based in the United Kingdom. Ahmed is the author of Come What May and Vanished  which address issues in Gazan society, as well as in broader trends in Palestin ...  Show more

In this conversation, we discussed Professor Makdisi's scholarship on Modern Arab History, snd Ottoman History. Dr. Ussama Makdisi is a Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Created & Hosted ...  Show more

Historian Ussama Makdisi discusses about the current uprisings in Palestine and the enduring legacy of the Nakba.

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I am joined by Dr. Usamma Makdisi to discuss his most recent book "The Age of Coexistence". In this book Dr. Usamma Makdisi explores the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a place of ...

Ussama Makdisi is the Arab-​American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Check out his book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast Consider supporting ...  Show more