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Episode 53: Cats and Dogs in History

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Francesca Consagra, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Paintings, Blanton Museum of Art Our first...

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Episode 57: The Succession to Muhammad

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Shahrzad Ahmadi, Doctoral Student, Department of History Nearly every world history textbook on the market explains...

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Episode 58: Islam’s First Civil War

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Shahrzad Ahmadi, Doctoral Student, Department of History In 7th century Arabia, the Islamic community was nearly torn...

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Episode 61: The Fatimids

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Shainool Jiwa, Head of Constituency Studies, Institute for Ismaili Studies, London Around the first millennium of the...

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Episode 62: Sunni and Shi’a in Medieval Syria

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Stephennie Mulder, Assistant Professor of Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin After the decline of the...

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Episode 63: Ezra and the Compilation of the Pentateuch

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Richard Bautch, Associate Professor of Humanities, St Edward’s University, Austin The authorship of the first five...

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Episode 67: How Jews Translate the Bible and Why

Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Leonard Greenspoon, Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations and Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University Any student...

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Episode 70: Race, Slavery & Abolition in Iran

Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, University of Pennsylvania The untimely death of a black man causes a stir in the press, causing intellectuals and...

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Episode 75: The Birmingham Qur’ān

Host: Samantha Rose Rubino, Doctoral Student, Department of History Guest: Christopher Rose, Assistant Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies In the summer of 2015, an obscure Qur’ān manuscript...

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Episode 82: What Writing Can Tell Us About the Arabs before Islam

Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Ahmad al-Jallad, University of Leiden In most world history survey courses, Arabia is introduced for the first time only as backstory to...

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Roundtable: Antiquities in Danger

Moderator: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Featured Guests: Stephennie Mulder, Department of Art & Art History / Middle Eastern Studies David Stuart, Department of Art & Art...

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Episode 2: Islamic Extremism in the Modern World

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History, and editor, Not Even Past Guest: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies In this episode, we tackle “that pesky...

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Episode 3: The Scramble for Africa

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Cacee Hoyer, doctoral student, Department of History This episode provides an overview of the Scramble for Africa and...

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Episode 18: Eugenics

Host: Joan Neuberger, Department of History and Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Philippa Levine, Professor; Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professorship in the Humanities; Co-Director British Studies...

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Episode 23: European Imperialism in the Middle East (part 1)

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History, and editor, Not Even Past Guest: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies The relationship between European, North...

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Episode 24: European Imperialism in the Middle East (part 2)

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History, and editor, Not Even Past Guest: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies World War I had a profound impact on the...

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Episode 26: History of the Ottoman Empire, Part I

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Barbara Petzen, Director, Middle East Connections The Ottoman Empire has long captured the public imagination in a...

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Episode 27: History of the Ottoman Empire, Part 2

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Barbara Petzen, Director, Middle East Connections In this second of a two part series, we look at life in the Ottoman...

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Episode 31: Who are the Turks?

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Carter Vaughn Findley, Humanities Distinguished Professor in History, The Ohio State University Over the past two...

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Episode 35: The Egyptian Revolution

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Sahar F. Aziz, Associate Professor, Texas A&M School of Law, Fort Worth, TX The Egyptian Revolution of 2011...

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