Laura Menin discusses Quest for Love in Central Morocco on New Books Network
Laura Menin discusses her new book Quest for Love in Central Morocco on the New Books Network Sociology podcast.
Lisa Marchi interviewed on Arablit
Lisa Marchi talks with Tugrul Mende about her forthcoming book The Funambulitsts: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora on Arablit.org. “This is an art that is not meant for the elites, it is meant for the people in the streets. People, I should add, who are perhaps a bit disheartened but still alert, and whose gaze is not fixed on the ground but looks up towards the sky.“
Mary McGlynn on New Books Network
Mary McGlynn discusses her new book Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction with Colleen English on the New Books Network podcast.
Mateo Farzaneh receives Honorable Mention for the Latifeh Yarshater Award of the Persian Heritage Foundation
Mateo Farzaneh’s recent book Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War received Honorable Mention for the Latifeh Yarshater Award of the Persian Heritage Foundation.
Matteo Capasso featured in Jadaliyya
Matteo Capasso discusses his new book Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in Jadaliyya‘s New Titles Out Now series.
Maurice Ebileeni interview in The New Arab
Maurice Ebileeni discusses his new book Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World in The New Arab.
Mosbahi on The Markaz Review’s Top 10 List
Hassouna Mosbahi’s novel We Never Swim in the Same River Twice, translated by William Hutchins, was included in The Markaz’s Top 10 Fall Reading List.
Najwa Bin Shatwan, author of The Slave Yards, at the Hay Festival Abu Dhabi
Najwa Bin Shatwan, was chosen as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 40 by the Hay Festival’s Beirut 39 project. She will be one of the featured authors at the Hay Festival Abu Dhabi in Manarat Al Saadiyat from February 25-28, 2020.
Natana Delong-Bas interviewed on NBC
Natana Delong-Bas, editor of Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-first Century discusses President Biden’s Middle East trip with Sue O’Connell on NBCLX.
Nazan Maksudyan wins the 2020 AMECYS Book Award
Nazan Maksudyan was awarded the 2020 Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies book award for Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I. The committee describes the book as “impeccably written, highly readable…. providing both a new approach to the study of children and a new approach to working in and interpreting archives. This is simply a wonderful book.”