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The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge
by Rebecca Buxton (Author), Samuel Ritholtz (Author)Jan 2026
Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq
by Mona Damluji (Author)Dec 2025Open Access
The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt
by Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (Author)Dec 2025
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire
by Gunja SenGupta (Author), Awam Amkpa (Author)Dec 2025
The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition
by Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Author)Dec 2025Open Access
The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf al-Thaqafi, 694–714
by Pamela Klasova (Author)Dec 2025
Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences
by Brahim El Guabli (Author)Nov 2025


Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
by Lucia Carminati (Author)Oct 2025

From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine
by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man (Author), Sarah Leah Whitson (Author)Sep 2025
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization
by Esmat Elhalaby (Author)Sep 2025

From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization
by John Chalcraft (Author)Aug 2025
A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
by Nicholas P. Roberts (Author)Aug 2025
A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity
by Christine Shepardson (Author)Aug 2025

Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers
by Utku Baris Balaban (Author)Jul 2025Open Access