Middle East
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Muddling through the Iranian Revolution
Naghmeh Sohrabi | Nov 1, 2015
Revolutions are epic events that shape both what comes after them and narratives of what came before... -
Feasts and Phoenixes: Teaching China and Iran
Ruth Mostern and Sholeh Quinn | Nov 1, 2015
As faculty at a very small campus—the University of California, Merced—we are two of only seven hist... -
Putting the Migrant and Refugee Crisis into Historical Context at the Annual Meeting
Lauren Stokes | Oct 27, 2015
I just arrived in Germany for a short research trip about the regulation of family migration in West Germany. While... -
Shared Legacy: Exploring Europe's Troves of Arabo-Islamic Manuscripts
Ateeb Gul | Oct 1, 2015
An exciting discovery was announced this past July at the University of Birmingham. Within the Minga... -
Between Tolerance and Persecution
Shatha Almutawa | Sep 1, 2015
Cairo’s Jewish Quarter Becomes the Setting of an Arabic TV DramaMedia in both the Middle East and th... -
Between Suicide Bombings and Religious Freedom in Islamic History
Shatha Almutawa | Jul 9, 2015
A young man entered a shi’i mosque in sunni-majority Kuwait last week and set off a bomb that killed him... -
Freedom in the Iranian Clerical Debate
Meir Litvak | Jul 1, 2015
During the first week of July 1999, thousands of university students demonstrated in the streets of ... -
Freedom of Religion in the Contemporary Middle East: Unsatisfactory Answers to the Wrong Questions
Nancy Khalek | Jul 1, 2015
The persecution of non-Muslim and Shi'i Muslim inhabitants of Iraq and Syria at the hands of ISIS ha... -
Making Space for Shi'ism in Afghanistan's Public Sphere and State Structure
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi | Jul 1, 2015
In Kabul, Afghanistan, a city that is over 1,500 years old, arguably the most famous landmark is the... -
Sectarianism and the Legacy of Empire in Egypt
Omar Cheta | Jul 1, 2015
Last February, ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. Wide ...
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