Category: Middle Eastern Studies

Sageman’s Senate Committee Testimony

Marc Sageman, national security consultant , forensic psychiatrist, and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security yesterday at a hearing entitled… READ MORE

American Ethnologist Review of Female Circumcision

American Ethnologist calls Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, "a provocative book, clearly written for both general and scholarly audiences" and "a respectful dialog that yet presses… READ MORE

Female Circumcision–Now in Paperback

Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Editor 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1941-8 | $19.95 | £13.00 A volume in the… READ MORE

A Sufi-Jewish Dialog–Now Available

A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Heart Diana Lobel 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3953-9 | $59.95 |… READ MORE

“Iraq Is Not One Nation”

On the November 6th broadcast of WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty-Moss Coane, Brendan O’Leary shared his views on the best future course for U.S. policy in Iraq.  O’Leary, constitutional advisor… READ MORE