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- Empires in Friction reviewed in Choice
May 22, 2025
Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century by Nelly Hanna was reviewed in the latest issue of Choice. “A compellingly revised history of Ottoman Egypt’s transformation from a turbulent, newly conquered, formerly Mamluk territory in 1517 to a bureaucratically regulated, financially productive Ottoman province in the last decades of the 16th century.” Read the full review
- Fadi Zaghmout in Bookstr’s round-up of Amazing Arab Sci-Fi Authors You Need to Read
April 24, 2025
Fadi Zaghmout’s forthcoming novel The Man of Middling Height is included in Bookstr’s round up of Amazing Arab Sci-Fi Authors You Need to Read.
- Azem discusses her novel on Electric Lit
April 2, 2025
Ibtisam Azem discusses The Book of Disappearance on Electric Lit. The book grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon’s translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel. Read the ...
- Ofra Amihay interviewed on New Books Network
April 2, 2025
Ofra Amihay author of The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel was interviewed on New Books Network by Ari Barbalat. Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography and shows how the presence of ...
- “The Book of Disappearance” is longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
March 4, 2025
Ibtisam Azem’s novel The Book of Disappearance, translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon, has been longlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.
- “Irish Bildungsroman” editors interviewed on New Books Network
March 4, 2025
Gregory Castle, Sarah Townsend, and Matt Reznicek, editors of The Irish Bildungsroman were interviewed on New Books Network’s Literary Studies channel.
- “Politics as Worship” reviewed in IJMES
January 30, 2025
Sumita Pahwa’s recent book Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers was reviewed in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
- Teach Me How to Whisper receives South Korea’s Book of the Year Award
January 28, 2025
Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper was recognized as South Korea’s 2024 Book of the Year from the literary journal “Lyric Poetry & Poetics.” The journal, which represents all of South Korea’s major universities, is among the country’s most authoritative forums for literary culture. “Teach Me How to Whisper’s spirit fluctuates between pandimensional immensities and ...
- The Hammam Through Time and Space reviewed in The Jordan Times
December 9, 2024
Julie Peteet’s new book The Hammam through Time and Space was reviewed in The Jordan Times.
- War Remains is reviewed in the International Journal of Middle East Studies
November 18, 2024
“Khayyat’s monograph is refreshing in its unorthodox and cross-disciplinary choice of objects and methodological approach.” Now available, War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat examines the aesthetics of ruination and resistance in contemporary Lebanese cultural productions. Read the full review
- New York State History Conference
06/05/2025 - 06/06/2025