Excerpt from A War of Colors by Nadine Sinno
April 2, 2024
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeking to disrupt and transform the city’s physical and social spaces. In the… READ MORE
Category: Middle Eastern Studies
First books in our Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South series
March 11, 2024
A New Interdisciplinary Series in Area Studies The University of Texas Press is pleased to share the first books in our new series Connected Histories of the Middle East and… READ MORE
Q&A with Noam Shoked on his book In the Land of the Patriarchs
September 5, 2023
Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict…. READ MORE
On Ritual, Colonialism, and Palestinian Identity: A Q&A with Awad Halabi, author of Palestinian Rituals of Identity
December 1, 2022
Members of Palestine’s Muslim community have long honored al-Nabi Musa, or the Prophet Moses. Since the thirteenth century, they have celebrated at a shrine near Jericho believed to be the… READ MORE
Q&A with Mohsen Mobasher about the Iranian Diaspora
September 24, 2018
Written by leading scholars of the Iranian diaspora, the original essays in Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher’s new book The Iranian Diaspora: Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations seek to understand and describe how Iranians in… READ MORE
