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An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
Read more: An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animalby David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a […]
5 things you might not expect of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East
As Mīr Ways Khān slept: miraculous possibilities in Afghan history
Q&A with the author of The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
The Demolition of Jeddah and the Relocation of a Neighbourhood in Turkey
EUP 75: Our Publishing in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt
A Q&A with Heba Arafa Abdelfattah In this author Q&A, Heba Arafa Abdelfattah introduces her latest book, Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt, which explores the formative years of Egyptian film (1919–52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and…
How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition
by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…
Journalism under hybrid politics
by Kjetil Selvik, Jacob Høigilt Only a few years ago, Tunisia was the freest country in the Arab world, with a flourishing media scene. Journalists were scrambling to reinvent their role in the public sphere that emerged after the Jasmine…
Writing about the People of Iraq
by Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani 23 March 2023 marked the twentieth anniversary of the attack on Iraq. Predictably, western mainstream media made little or no reference to contemporary Iraqi culture. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in…