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  • Suciyan interviewed on the New Books Network

    July 2, 2025

    Talin Suciyan, author of Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces was interviewed by Ari Barbalat on the New Books Network. Summary: The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s exhortation ...

  • We Never Swim in the Same River Twice reviewed by World Literature Today

    July 2, 2025

    We Never Swim in the Same River Twice by Hassouna Mosbahi and translated was recently reviewed by World Literature Today “Mosbahi’s high reputation as a novelist will not be hurt by this very readable work, which gives a vivid if not especially pleasant picture of post–Arab Spring Tunisia; nor will anyone but the most intransigent of ...

  • Chicago Tribune column features Watching TV

    June 16, 2025

    When Harry met Wally, the result was a definitive book on how to watch television by Rick Kogan They were young wide-eyed students when they met at Northwestern University. Walter Podrazik was from Bridgeport and Harry Castleman from Boston and it did not take them long to discover that they shared a passion for The Beatles. They ...

  • 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.

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27 Jan
01/27/2025    
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Emily Orlando will discuss her new book Decoration of Houses at Fairfield University on January 27, 2025.
07 Feb
02/07/2025    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Whether you’re trying to publish your first book or your fifth, figuring out how to navigate the process successfully can be mysterious and challenging. At [...]
23 Feb
02/23/2025 - 02/26/2025    
All Day
The Press will be attending the American Conference for Irish Studies at Georgia Southern University from February 23-26, 2025.
27 Feb
02/27/2025    
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The McGill Collective for Gender Equality is hosting Michelle Hartman and Malek Abisaab for a talk about their recent book What the War Left Behind: [...]
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Upcoming Events

  • Webb Historical Association Summer Lecture
    07/17/2025

  • Book talk with friends of Historic Kingston
    09/06/2025

  • Book Talk with Edward Pitts
    09/24/2025

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