By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Before the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate life—and particularly of the intimate lives of women—are excruciatingly ra...
New Directions in Palestinian Studies book series, the first of its kind in the United States, solicits rigorous and innovative manuscripts that put Palestinians at the center of knowledge production projects. It accepts proposals from all disciplines in the humanities and the interpretiv...
In September, UC Press welcomed Current History to our list of journals. Begun as a supplement to the New York Times in 1914, Current History is the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international affairs published in the United States. The journal aims to observe and explain ...
This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit.
We’re thrilled to announce Salih Can Açiksöz has won MESA’s 2020 Fatima Mernissi Book Award for Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey! This award is gi...
Author On Barak argues in Powering Empire that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long-lasting power over the world economy?
In this interview with Jadaliyy...
UC Press is excited to feature several of our new groundbreaking Middle Eastern History & Studies titles for #MESA2020.
Human ShieldsA History of People in the Line of Fireby Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini
Describing the use of human shields in key historical and co...
This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual meeting November 14-17 in New Orleans. #MESA2019
By Maria Frederika Malmström, author of The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt
How to...
We’re pleased to announce that two UC Press authors were honored for their achievements in Middle East scholarship at last night’s Middle East Studies Association’s award ceremony.
Fredrik Meiton, Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, received two awards fo...
This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual meeting November 14-17 in New Orleans. #MESA2019
By Fariba Zarinebaf, author of Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
The idea for writing Medite...
If you’re headed to the 2019 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association this week in New Orleans, be sure to visit UC Press at booth#65 for a 40% discount on our new and notable Middles Eastern Studies and Middle East History titles.
From Ussama Makdisi’s provocative history of the...