Welcome to Middle East Centre Booktalk – the Oxford podcast on new books about the Middle East. These are some of the books written by members of our community, or the books our community are talking about. Tune in to follow author interviews and book chat. Every episode features a different, recently published book and is hosted by a different Oxford academic.
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Restart by Gordon Korman
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Book talks for IS445
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Booktalks about children's books
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Booktalks with Mrs. Chandler’s Supersafekeepers. Fifth grade heroes put their critiquing skills against featured books. Tune into hear their reviews. Cover art photo provided by Jaredd Craig on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@jaredd_craig
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Ένα podcast βιβλιοφιλίας, όπου οι καλεσμένοι συζητούν όχι μόνο για τη σχέση τους με τη γραφή αλλά και την ανάγνωση. Με αφορμή τα όγδοα βραβεία βιβλίου Public, Public Book Awards, ο Παύλος Τσίμας κάνει ένα ταξίδι στον κόσμο των βιβλίων και τις διαφορετικές κατηγορίες. Συγγραφείς, ηθοποιοί, εκδότες, άνθρωποι από τον χώρο των καλών τεχνών, μας μιλούν για τα αγαπημένα τους βιβλία και τις αναγνωστικές τους συνήθειες. Τι διαβάζουν, που διαβάζουν και πως;
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Deborah B. Ford, Director of Library Outreach for Junior Library Guild, presents ready to use podcasts of the latest releases in children's literature. Get out your wish list and give it a listen!
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Welcome to 'Allie the Librarian Booktalks,' where I share thoughts on books I've read and ones on my TBR. Let's chat about the stories that have captured my attention and explore the promising reads waiting on the horizon. I'm Allie, your book-loving librarian, inviting you to join me in talking about some great reads.
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Writing Middle Eastern Lives: Biography in Modern Arab History
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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, author of ‘An Impossible Friendship’, Marilyn Booth, author of ‘The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz’, and Peter Hill, author of ‘Prophet of Reason’, discuss the writing of biography in modern Middle Eastern history. Book abstracts:‘An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948’ –In Jerusalem…
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In this talk, Dr Elham Fakhro, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, launches her new book ‘The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization’ Elham Fakhro is a Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, at the Harvard Kennedy School. She previously acted as Senior Analyst with the Internati…
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In this talk, Iraqi political analyst, Sajad Jiyad, discusses his new book ‘God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’. In his new book, ‘God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’, Century International fellow Sajad Jiyad draws on original sources and hundreds of interviews duri…
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Researcher and writer, Rusha Latif, gives a talk based on her new book ‘Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution’ Abstract:In this talk based on her new book ‘Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution’, Rusha Latif will challenge the commonly held belief that the 2011 Egyptian revolution was spontaneous and leaderless, through a …
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The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
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Dr Ibrahim Al-Marashi reflects on the process of researching and writing the latest edition of his book, ‘A Concise History of the Middle East’. This book talk on ‘A Concise History of the Middle East’ will discuss history-in-the-making. Close to a year after 7 October 2023, the reverberations of these events will be felt for generations to come, y…
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The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
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Journalist and scholar, Dr Ezgi Başaran, presents her book which traces the links between the AKP, Tunisia’s Ennahda, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring. Since the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Ben Ali, delegations from Turkey’s Justice and Development Party – the AKP, including parliamentari…
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The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
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Professor Malika Zeghal (Harvard University) presents her new book 'The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa', an innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam. In The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Afr…
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Ali Mirsepassi in conversation with Stephanie Cronin about his new bookAli Mirsepassi, Stephanie Cronin
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Book Launch for "The Damascus Events: the 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" By Eugene Rogan, Published in hardback by Allen Lane, 2 May 2024. A watershed moment in the history and the making of the modern Middle East. Renowned Arab scholar, Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman …
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The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
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Professor Ardi Imseis new book explores the UN’s management of the longest-running problem on its agenda, critically assessing tensions between the Organisation’s position and international law. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there has been a continuing though vacillating gulf between the requirements of international law and the United Nations (…
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Listen to Allie the Librarian booktalk her five favorite books of 2023!
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Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan's Paradiplomacy'
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Dr. Diana Galeeva introduces her book which examines the relations between the Gulf States and Russia from the Soviet era to the present day. In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers. Yet the role of specific Russia…
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This lecture explores Israel’s secret relations with its neighbors during the years 1948-2022. In order to survive in a hostile environment in the Middle East, Israeli decision makers developed a pragmatic regional foreign policy, designed to find ways to approach states, leaders and minorities willing to cooperate with it against mutual regional c…
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Book Launch: Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism
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Dr Hertog presents the key arguments of his new short monograph “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism” published by Cambridge University Press. The book argues against the received wisdom that neo-liberal reforms are the main culprit explaining slow growth, corruption and inequality across low- to mid-income Arab cou…
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Dr Michael Willis' new book offers an explanation of this unexpected development known as the Hirak Movement, examining the political and social changes that have occurred in Algeria since the ‘dark decade’ of the 1990s When mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world w…
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Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
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A new theoretical framework for how democracy can emerge in the Middle East and wider Muslim world, where political conflicts over religion often predominate. Abstract: This talk focuses on the speaker's recently published book, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022). It provides a new the…
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A talk based on John McManus’s book, Inside Qatar: hidden stories from one of the richest nations on earth. A social anthropologist, McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of Qatar’s gilded elite, its spin doctors and thrill seekers, its manual labourers and domestic workers. He attempts to go beyond the government PR and the negative headlines a…
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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
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Aaron Rock-Singer presents their latest book "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East". Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices—praying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregation—are understood to have a …
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Ian Martin presents his latest book on Libya: All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya. In the book, he asks and offer personal answers to these questions: Was the international intervention in Libya a justified response to an impending massacre and wider threat to civilians, or were other motivations invol…
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A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC’s long-serving correspondent in the region. Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s International Editor (former Middle East Editor), has been covering the region since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In this new book, in part ba…
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Join us for Booktalk Episode 9, Professor Deborah Starr (Cornell University) in conversation about her new book, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, published by California Press. Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs the discussion.Extract from publisher’s website: In this book, Deborah Starr recuperates the wo…
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Join us for Booktalk Episode 8, Dr Carl Rommel (University of Helsinki) in conversation about his new book Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, published by University of Texas Press in July 2021. Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs the discussion.The book is available for purchase for c…
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Η Μαρία Κουτσομάλλη-Μορώ, ιστορικός τέχνης και υπεύθυνη συλλογής του Ιδρύματος Βασίλη και Ελίζας Γουλανδρή, έχει μια στενή και καθημερινή σχέση με τα βιβλία. Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο του BookTalks ο Παύλος Τσίμας συνομιλεί με έναν άνθρωπο το τεχνών για τα αγαπημένα της βιβλία, τους χώρους στους οποίους αγαπάει να διαβάζει, την ιδιαιτερότητα της συγγραφ…
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Ο Άρης Δημοκίδης είχε την τύχη να έχει μια μεγαλύτερη αδερφή η οποία τον συμβούλευε ποια βιβλία αξίζει να διαβάσει και ποια όχι. Αυτό βέβαια δεν σημαίνει ότι δεν υπήρξε μια σειρά βιβλίων τα οποία, διαβάζοντάς τα ξανά σε μεγάλη ηλικία, τον απογοήτευσαν. Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο, ο Παύλος Τσίμας συνομιλεί με τον δημοσιογράφο και συγγραφέα παιδικών βιβλίω…
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O Παύλος Τσίμας υποδέχεται στο BookTalks την ηθοποιό Σοφία Φιλιππίδου για να μοιραστεί μαζί μας μικρά μυστικά από τις αναγνωστικές της συνήθειες και το τέχνασμα που έχει βρει για να διαβάζει μόνο βιβλία τα οποία έχουν πραγματική αξία. Αυτή τη φορά η Σοφία Φιλιππίδου δεν μιλάει με την ιδιότητα της ηθοποιού, αλλά της συγγραφέα και μας μιλάει για το β…
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Special guest Tok Star Librarian, Amanda Hunt, is booktalking YA and Middle Grade novels! She is bringing rom-com and feel-good stories with Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon and Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden. Booktalks you won't want to miss!
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Στο πρώτο επεισόδιο του BookTalks ο Παύλος Τσίμας συνομιλεί με τον καθηγητή και συγγραφέα Στάθη Καλύβα. Ξεκινώντας από το βιβλίο «Ελληνικό Όνειρο» από τις εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο, το οποίο είναι ένας διάλογος μεταξύ του καθηγητή και του δημοσιογράφου Κώστα Γιαννακίδη συζητούν για το πως προέκυψε αυτή η συνεργασία, μετά για τις διαφορές μεταξύ του ακαδημ…
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Special guest, Karina Quilantan-Garza, is booktalking comics and graphic novels! She is bringing some Image Comics faves such as Ice Cream Man and HAHA by W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo, illustrators Chris O'Halloran (Ice Cream Man) and Vanesa Del Rey (HAHA), Gabriel Hernandez Walta (HAHA), Roger Langridge (HAHA), and Zoe Thorogood (HAHA).…
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Allie is booktalking YA novels and nonfiction A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, Some Other Now and The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person.
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Join us as we listen to Dr Chihab El Khachab (King’s College, Cambridge) in conversation about his new book – Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Published by American University in Cairo Press. Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs the discussion.The book is available for purchase…
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Booktalk episode 6: Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis
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For our sixth episode of MEC Booktalk, guest author David Warren (Washington University in St Louis) discusses his recent book, Rivals in the Gulf, published by Routledge in January 2021. David Warren is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Washington University in St Louis.This episode …
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Guest author Dr Fatemeh Shams (Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania) talks with Booktalk host Dr Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford). Dr Zuzanna Olszewska is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East, School of Anthropology a…
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Join us for the fourth MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Andrew March about his new book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, published by Harvard University Press, 2021 The book can be purchased direct from the publisher's distributor by emailing cs-books@wiley.c…
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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition
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Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. The book can be purchased direct from the publisher's website at a 25% discount until 28/04/21, by quoting DIS21 at c…
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Episode 2, with Dr Faisal Devji, (St Antony’s College, Oxford), talks with Joshua Craze (University of Chicago) and writer Aaron Tugendhaft about Aaron's new book The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, University of Chicago Press 2020. Aaron Tugendhaft is an author and educator based in Berlin. He studied art history, political philosophy…
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First episode of Booktalk, where host Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) talks with David Rundell on his book Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, Bloomsbury Publication (2020. The book is available for purchase with the 30% discount code: VOM30 from https://www.Bloomsbury.com/uk/vision-or-mirage-9781838605933 (NB dis…
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Special Guest, Vilia Garcia, is booktalking YA Graphic Novel Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds and art by Danica Novgorodoff.
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Special guest Stephanie Galvan Russell, AKA Lispy Librarian, is booktalking YA novel Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston.
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Booktalking debut YA Crime Fiction novel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson.
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We’re celebrating memoirs! We have an audiobook and a novel in verse that will leave with all the feels! Listen for a review of Hey Kiddo and Ordinary Hazards
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Afton describes the ghosts of Tupelo landing. Zoie describes Max Crumbly. Zeek describes Pax.
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With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, author of the Poet X. We’re talking about the beautiful character of Emoni Santiago. Qq8pWqrth92DHs2XDJqX
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This Book talk is all about Ghost by Jason Reynolds
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A Wilder Girls, Rory Power’s debut novel is the star of this show! Booktalking the unusual storyline and strong female characters.
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Books that got overlooked on my TBR but I finally got to them! And I’m so glad I did! Listen to hear what I thought about Three Dark Crowns and We Were Liars.
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Restart by Gordon Korman
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Booktalk for Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
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The Global Refugee Crisis by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson. Published 2019 by Twenty-First Century Books. Transcript The Global Refugee Crisis by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists in history, but did you know that he was also a refugee? Einstein had to flee Germany in the 1930’s because he was a vi…
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This is a resource talk about FugeesFamily.org copyrighted in 2019 by Fugees Family, Inc. Transcript: FugeesFamily.org At school, you see your friend has a gray sweatshirt with bright green words on it that say “Level the playing field”. You ask them what that means, and they tell you that it’s a sweat shirt supporting the Fugees Family, of course.…
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This is a resource talk of Human Flow by Ai WeiWei. Released in 2017 and produced by AC Films and Participant Media. Transcript: Human Flow by Ai WeiWei Imagine traveling across the great blue expanse of the Mediterranean Sea on a very little boat. This isn’t a scene from a future vacation, but rather something that millions of refugees do every ye…
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