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Editor and ancient historian Katherine Blouin asks 18 scholars to address why this crucial region is less visited and studied compared to the rest of Egypt.

In her third cookbook, Food for Sharing, Ashia Ismail-Singer groups recipes by the social occasions they accompany—presenting food as a means of connecting with cultures around the table.

By situating Italy within its Mediterranean and Islamic contexts, Ali Humayan Akhtar powerfully reshapes how we see its past.

Yalie Saweda Kamra's third poetry collection about her experience as a child of African immigrants navigating life in the US and Sierra Leone is both intellectually engaging and emotionally resonant.

Artists of the Middle East emphasizes the breadth of an artistic community that spans nations, styles and mediums while challenging the assumption that these artists are at once the same as each other and different from those in the West.

In his book Nawar Shora examines how identities too often treated as interchangeable have shaped public perception and why understanding the differences matters.

This collection posits that the Muslim world is historically layered, shaped by centuries of regional choice, encounter, translation and experience.

Andrew Collins explores the mythmaking and historical erasure of Egypt’s first female pharaoh.

Author Paul Binski takes readers on a multisensory tour of medieval cathedrals across Europe.

The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History shows how the 13th-century Andalusi palace complex in Granada, modern Spain, generates often conflicting meanings at the same time—meanings actively constructed and sometimes misread. Edhem Eldem, an Istanbul-based history professor, traces its role in shaping social and cultural identities across imperial Europe, Arab North Africa and Ottoman Türkiye from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

In Picturing the Beautiful Game, art historian Daniel Haxall shows readers the perspective of the artist’s psyche—one rarely depicted in discussions of sport.

Tim Bascom transforms a lifetime of playing football across five continents into a meditation on belonging, arguing that the game’s great gift is not the goals but the wordless understanding it creates among people.