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Editor Spotlight: Luke Yarbrough on Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age
Oct 17 2020
This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit.For this year’s virtual MESA conference, Luke Yarbrough joined us to talk about the new co-edited book Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age and why understanding Islamic conversion is a crucial par
New Directions in Palestinian Studies
Oct 16 2020
New Directions in Palestinian Studies book series, the first of its kind in the United States, solicits rigorous and innovative manuscripts that put Palestinians at the center of knowledge production projects. It accepts proposals from all disciplines in the humanities and the interpretive social sc
Author spotlight: Nicola Pratt on women’s activism in the Middle East
Oct 13 2020
For this year's virtual MESA conference, UC Press author Nicola Pratt joined us to talk about her book Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jordon, and Lebanon and what the West gets wrong about women's activism in the Middle East.Nicola Pratt is Associate Professor o
Author Spotlight: Interview with Salih Can Açiksöz, author of award-winning Sacrificial Limbs
Oct 12 2020
This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit.We're thrilled to announce Salih Can Açiksöz has won MESA's 2020 Fatima Mernissi Book Award for Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey! This award is given to the
Editor Spotlight: Interview with Postclassical Islamic Scholarship Series Editor Asad Ahmed
Oct 09 2020
At this year's virtual MESA conference, we hope to spread the news of our exciting Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship. Guided by the series editors, Asad Q. Ahmed and Margaret Larkin, the series will explore Islamicate intellectual history as represented by various disciplines and
Author Interview: On Barak on Powering Empire and the story of coal in the Middle East
Oct 08 2020
Author On Barak argues in Powering Empire that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long-lasting power over the world economy?In this interview with Jadaliyya, Barak di
Author Interview: Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini discuss Human Shields
Oct 07 2020
In their new book, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, scholars Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini chronicle the chilling global history of human shields. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux R
The Empires of Faith and the Making of the Prophet of Islam
Aug 12 2020
by Sean W. Anthony, author of Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of IslamWhat can modern historians know about the historical figure of the prophet Muhammad? Can modern historians and their critical methods add anything new or, at the very least, be more certain abo