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Middle East

Review of The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (1999)

Review of India in the Persian World of Letters by Arthur Dudney (2022)

Review of Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700 (2020) by Ron Harris

Master of the Game

Review of Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (2021)

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

Review of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (2017) by Nükhet Varlik

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Review of The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (2017), by Cyrus Schayegh

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (2017)

A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks, by Stewart Gordon (2015)

Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (2012)

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack (1976)

Historical Perspectives on Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

Killing a King, by Dan Ephron (2015)

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

Faith Misplaced, by Ussama Makdisi (2010)

Medieval Islam and its Monuments

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

The Israeli Republic, by Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2014)

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood (2004)

Book cover of The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale (2010)

What’s Missing from ‘Argo’ (2012)

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany (2006)

Book cover of Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy

Ordinary Egyptians: Creating The Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy (2011)

Film Review – A Separation (2011)

Footnote (2011)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: Beirut City Center Recovery: The Foch-Allenby and Etoile Conservation Area by Robert Saliba (2004)

Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession by Haggai Ram (2009)

Book cover of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat

Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn by Asef Bayat (2007)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Book cover of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism Second Edition by Zachary Lockman

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman (2004)

Book cover of Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857 compiled and translated by Mahmood Farooqui

Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)

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