Kaveh Hemmat is Assistant Professor of History, Professional Faculty, in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Theology at Benedictine University. His research focuses on perceptions and representations of East Asia in premodern Islamicate …
Read More >By Reyhan Durmaz, author of Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond We all tell stories to create meaning. A far-gone event in a …
Read More >By Mark Levine, author of We’ll Play Till We Die and Heavy Metal Islam The video, posted anonymously on Facebook, had only 300 views when I first saw it. The singer wasn’t …
Read More >From metal and hip hop, to emo in Baghdad, mahraganat in Egypt, techno in Beirut, listen to the revolutionary music of the Middle East with this playlist curated by author Mark LeVine.
Read More >By Kaveh Askari, author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical …
Read More >By Sarah-Neel Smith, author of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey This post is designed as a classroom resource for teachers and students interested in modern Turkish art and …
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Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from October and November 2021. Please join us in celebrating these …
Read More >By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 We’re excited to share our forthcoming medieval and early modern world textbook, The Sea in the Middle, and …
Read More >By Jesse Wozniak, author of Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State During my first research trip to the Lead Police Training Academy on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, …
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