Force Without Authority (S. 15, Ep. 11)

On this week's episode of the podcast, Kali Rubaii of Purdue University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. The book expands the temporal and descriptive categories of what war is—and what resistance looks like. By asking wh ...  Afficher plus

On this week's episode of the podcast, Hossam el-Hamalawy joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic. The book is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and methods of the military, police, and intellige ...  Afficher plus

This episode of the afikra podcast was recorded on April 10th at 1pm Palestine Time

Lorenzo Kamel teaches Global History and History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin. He has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University, the Alb ...

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson to talk about her new book How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, about the historic Syrian-Arab Congress of 1920.  Professor Thompson is the Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace an ...

In her stunning new book, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of California Press, 2019), Amira Mittermaier, Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, conducts a dazzling and at many times moving ethnography of an ...  Afficher plus

Omar Harami is the director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Center in Jerusalem (and Saifedean's high school best friend!) He joins to discuss the state of Christianity in Palestine and the challenges facing Christians and Palestinians.

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