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A Window into the Early Modern Mediterranean, through the Fascinating Life of Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî
Dec 20 2023
By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North AfricaWhen I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 - c.1640), I realized how the many threads of his life and career formulated a different
UC Press November Award Winners
Dec 01 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our November 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Reyhan Durmaz2023 Book Prize, Honorable MentionMiddle East MedievalistsRey
Q&A with Özge Yaka, author of Fighting for the River
Nov 30 2023
This interview was originally published on New Books Network and an excerpted version is reposted here with permission.Hello and welcome to New Books in Middle Eastern Studies. I am your host, Alize Arıcan. Today, I am joined by Özge Yaka, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geographical Scien
Reading List: Palestinian Studies
Nov 03 2023
In addition to the open-access series New Directions in Palestinian Studies, UC Press publishes numerous books that contribute to globalizing knowledge about Palestine’s history. This reading list is intended to enrich and expand discussions around the people and the place.
A Look Inside Novel Palestine
Nov 01 2023
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah examines these imaginative structures so that we might move bey
The Danger of the False Binary Between “Islam and the West”
Oct 31 2023
By Hamid Dabashi, author of The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the WestSo often we hear allusion to this idea of “Islam and the West.” A product of colonialism, this false and dangerous binary has created ongoing enmity and an illusion of two divided worlds. What do we even mean when we say “
Q&A with Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, author of The Tropical Turn
Mar 28 2023
The Tropical Turn chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels t
UC Press February Award Winners
Mar 10 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Kaveh Askari 2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinema and Medi
UC Press January Award Winners
Feb 10 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our January 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Jarrod Hore2022 Donna Coates Prize Winner Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand
The Latest Books in our World Literature in Translation Collection
Jan 05 2023
A stunning collection of classics from around the world, read around the world.The World Literature in Translation program aims to represent a truly inclusive and expansive view of literature from around the globe. This growing collection features accessible English translations of literature fr