Middle East
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All Eyes on the State: The Limits of Religious Freedom in Modern Egypt
Abdullah Al-Arian | Jul 1, 2015
In the midst of the political turmoil that has engulfed Egypt over the past four years, one question... -
AHA Member Spotlight: John Ghazvinian
Matthew Keough | Jun 18, 2015
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our... -
America’s Misconceived “Wars on Terror”
Doug Rossinow | May 27, 2015
The United States government is currently pursuing a host of policies, some of them quite aggressive, in the Middle East—a... -
Ex(-)Libris ex Oriente: New Database to Track the Transmission of Middle Eastern Books
Shatha Almutawa | Jan 1, 2015
Élise Franssen, a Belgian postdoctoral researcher, and Frédéric Bauden, a professor at the Universit... -
Jami’s Haft Awrang Undergoes Conservation at the Smithsonian
Shatha Almutawa | Jan 1, 2015
Amanda Malkin, a Hagop Kevorkian Fund fellow at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.... -
Facing “Muslims Killed Christians” and Other Challenges of Teaching the Middle East in Post-9/11 North America
Lerna Ekmekcioglu | Dec 1, 2014
Teaching the 1915 Armenian genocide in post-9/11 America is not an easy matter, and it should not be... -
Islam, the Middle East, and the Arab World at the 129th Annual Meeting
Shatha Almutawa | Nov 13, 2014
2015 annual meeting attendees will have several sessions to choose from relating to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim... -
People’s Histories of the United Arab Emirates
Shatha Almutawa | Oct 1, 2014
In 1971, six emirates joined together to form the United Arab Emirates, and a seventh joined in 1972... -
Historical Narratives in American Counterterrorism Operations
Shatha Almutawa | Sep 2, 2014
Your grasp of facts and history is shaky #thinkagainturnaway,” reads a tweet from the State Departme... -
A History of the Persian Language at the Exhibit A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
Shatha Almutawa | Aug 13, 2014
"These are trend-setting books," Hirad Dinavari, curator of A Thousand Years of the Persian Book, to...
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