A Historical Roadmap to Understanding the United States’ Relationship with China

Thomas M. Larkin

How does one make sense of the relationship between the United States and China? Where should one even begin? China and the United States are the world’s two largest economies by a significant margin, and entangled ones at that. A...

September 28, 2021

The Tip of the Iceberg: Why Pop Culture Creators Should Dig Deep in Research

By Jordan Mechner

When I build a fictional world for a book, video game, or film/TV project, I spend months doing research. Whether the setting is history, fantasy, or the present day, my research investments always pay huge creative dividends. People sometimes think...

October 12, 2020

Webinar: Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel

“Gilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East.” ~Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine...

October 11, 2020

Q&A: M’hamed Oualdi on A Slave Between Empires

“M’hamed Oualdi’s biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah’s story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire....

October 10, 2020

Take a Tour of Our MESA Virtual Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb

Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. This year is unusual in more than one way for MESA. Not only are we all attending the conference...

June 20, 2020

Q&A: Victor McFarland on the History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance

“The extraordinary relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has influenced both countries, often for the worse. There is no better guide to the origins of this complex alliance than Victor McFarland’s new book. Anyone with an interest in...

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Category: Middle East Studies Association