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The Intimate Lives of 17th-Century Women, Seen through the Eyes of a Muslim Slave
Sep 07 2021
By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century EuropeBefore the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate life—and particularly of the intimate lives of women—are excruciatingly rare, present
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: 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
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
The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear: Cairene Ex-Prisoners During the Fall of 2019
Nov 17 2019
This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual meeting November 14-17 in New Orleans. #MESA2019By Maria Frederika Malmström, author of The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's EgyptHow to tell a sto
Free Trade in the Ottoman Empire’s Mediterranean Port
Nov 14 2019
This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual meeting November 14-17 in New Orleans. #MESA2019By Fariba Zarinebaf, author of Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern GalataThe idea for writing Mediterranean
MESA 2019: Visit Us This Week in New Orleans
Nov 11 2019
If you’re headed to the 2019 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association this week in New Orleans, be sure to visit UC Press at booth#65 for a 40% discount.