Middle East Talks

Middle East Talks is a podcast produced by the American University in Cairo’s Middle East Studies Program in collaboration with the Arab and Islamic Civilizations Department. The podcast aims to foster a better understanding of the Middle East among a wider audience by exploring new and contemporary research in the region’s history, politics and culture. In each episode, a scholar is invited to discuss their work in a fashion that is accessible and engaging to listeners who are curious about the Middle East.

Middle East Talks is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Middle East Talks, a education show with 11 episodes published.

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  S1 E11 To Stand With Palestine - with Karam Dana

  Jan 21, 202642 minS0

  <p>Our guest in this episode of Middle East Talks is the Palestinian American academic Karam Dana, to talk about his new book To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. Dana offers a thorough examination of how and why Palestinian voices were for long marginalized (and demonized!) in American political discourse, but he also argues that the Palestinian issue is increasingly taking center stage in struggles again the status quo, from college campuses to digital activism. </p><p>Guest: Karam Dana, the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research and the founding...

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  S1 E10 Sex Work in Colonial Egypt - with Francesca Biancani

  Dec 26, 202545 minS0

  <p>The British occupation authorities drafted the first law regulating sex work in Egypt, merely 6 weeks after British forces defeated the Egyptian army and occupied the country in 1882. The era of regulated sex work would last until 1951 when it finally became criminalized – just a few years before the end of British occupation. But the story of “Sex Work in Colonial Egypt” – the title of the book whose author is our guest today – is not merely a story about imperial and nationalist approaches towards prostitution. Francesca Biancani tells a much more fascinating and complex story about modernity, Egypt’s place in the global e...

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  S1E9 Recovering Palestinian Lives - with Andrea Stanton

  Dec 19, 202539 minS0

  <p>Qudsiyya Khurshid belonged to the first generation of Palestinian broadcasters, joining the Palestine Broadcasting Service shortly after its launch in 1936. An educator and writer, she was among a small but expanding circle of women shaping Arab intellectual life in mandate-era Palestine. Afterleaving in 1948, she settled in Pennsylvania, where she remained active in civic and community work. What can her life tell us about gender, media, and everyday experience in the decade before the Nakba? This question is explored by our guest today, Andrea Stanton, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Denver, in her article “Recovering Palestinian Lives: Qu...

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  S1 E8 Social Media and the Politics of Ironic Belonging in Dubai - with Sonali Pahwa

  Dec 12, 202530 minS0

  <p>What’s it like to be a 2nd generation migrant to the United Arab Emirates who is also a social media star? How can you express your identity within the constraints of its legal and political system? My guest today Sonali Pahwa, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota, looks at the examples of two famous content creators in Dubai… an Egyptian woman and a Syrian man.</p><p>Through their comic performances, argues Pahwa, they practice “belonging” in a nation where they lack a path to citizenship. While doing so, they also challenge conventional percepti...

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  S1 E7 Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza - with Peter Beinart

  Oct 10, 202526 minS0

  <p>Our guest today in Middle East Talks is Peter Beinart, American writer and professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, to discuss his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.</p><p>The book has caused a sensation ever since it was published earlier this year. Coming at a time when the American Jewish community is increasingly divided over Israel, the book served as an important contribution to the debate.</p><p>It’s an attempt to grapple not just with the horrors that the Israeli war machine has brought up...

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