by Nile Green, author of Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban At UC Press, open access—the free, immediate, unrestricted, online access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work—is central to our mission. In …
Read More >As part of Banned Books Week we’ll be sharing recommended reading lists that promote the freedom to seek and express ideas. We take pride in publishing scholarship that focuses on the lives of diverse religious and …
Read More >As part of Banned Books Week, occurring September 24 – 30, we’ll be sharing recommended reading lists that promote the freedom to seek and express ideas. At UC Press, we believe that scholarship is a …
Read More >By Khaled A. Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear Muslim Americans were intimately familiar with Islamophobia well before it became a cognizable term plastered on protest …
Read More >By Gary Fields, author of Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror “Sumud” (صمود) is an oft-used term in Palestinian Arabic meaning “steadfastness” and refers generally to the resistance of Palestinians to …
Read More >This guest post is published as part of a series related to the American Sociological Association conference, August 12-15 in Montreal, Quebec, and in conjunction with the American Political Science Association conference, August 31-September 3 …
Read More >Fifty years ago this week, the Six-Day War transformed the Middle East. Fought from June 5-10 in 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, the conflict lasted …
Read More >By Gershon Shafir, author of A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict This guest post is published in observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, …
Read More >With last Friday’s executive order on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, along with plans to continue construction of the barrier along the US-Mexico border moving forward, the current presidential administration has brought heightened attention to immigration …
Read More >by Johan Mathew This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Boston. UC Press authors share insight into their research and stories that …
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