By Stefan Kamola, author of Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh Early in 1839, Professor of Linguistics…
Category: History
An interview with Nathaniel Greenberg – author of How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in…
Gender Studies
An interview with Taef El-Azhari, author of ‘Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257’
Tell us a bit about your book Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257 is the first comprehensive study…
Cultural History
When in Doubt, Seduce: screenwriter Allie Hagan talks about the fascinating relationship between Elaine May and Mike Nichols
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Dean Brandum In late 2017, the annual “Black List” was released, a high-profile list of the…
by Emma Wild-Wood With the publication of Volume 25, the journal Studies in World Christianity completes twenty-five years of existence….
Cultural History
Finding a Language of My Own – Maya Issam Kesrouany on the Making of Modern Egyptian Literature
Much like the translators in my book (Prophetic Translation: The Making of Modern Egyptian Literature), I have also found myself…
Earlier this year, the United States government declassified more than 40,000 documents showing the American intelligence community’s reporting on the…
As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.
Kharita dispatching On 2 Ramadan 1316 AH/ 15 January 1899, Amir Abdul Rahman Khan of Afghanistan (r. 1880–1901), sent an…
Cultural History
Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesised Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere
By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s…