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Middle East

“Muhammad’s Law” in Latin America: Outlining Historiographical Legacies of Early Modern Atlantic Islam

October 1973: Nixon’s decision to resupply Israel

Burying the Lede? The Iran Hostage Crisis “October Surprise” and Me

From Camp David to Baghdad: Scrambling for and Against Peace in the Middle East, Fall 1978

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Four Books I Recommend from Comps - Law, Knowledge, and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa

Four Books I Recommend from Comps – Law, Knowledge, and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa

A Family Fight on the Bosporus: The Ashkenazi Jews of the Ottoman Empire

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

The War in Afghanistan is Nineteen Years Old: What Can it Teach us about Violence in American History?

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Wrong About Everything

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

Searching for Armenian Children in Turkey: Work Series on Migration, Exile, and Displacement

Mapping & Microbes: The New Archive (No. 22)

Industrial Sexuality: Gender in a Small Town in Egypt

An Apology for Propaganda

Mapping Newcomers in Buenos Aires, 1928

Image of the front facade of Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

Rabin’s Assassination Twenty Years Later

Remembering the Iran-Iraq War

Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image

Carved in Stone: What Architecture Can Tell Us about the Sectarian History of Islam

The Lessons of History? Debating the Vietnam and Iraq Wars

Was Iraq War Worth It? 10 Years after Invasion, It’s Too Early to Know

Sarin Over Aleppo

Failed Enlightenment: Urban Design and French Modernity in Beirut

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV: Professor Masood ul Hasan

Iran’s Nuclear Program and the History of the IAEA

Arab Autumn: Egypt Now

The Death of Qaddafi by Historians

Oil and Weapons in Gaddafi’s Libya

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

“Not Like Baghdad” – The Looting and Protection of Egypt’s Treasures

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