Archives

• Questions Beget Questions: An Example of Digital History Research
• Found: That Great Hadith Scholar, Nebuchadnezzar…
• Found: A Philological Detail and a Methodological Point
• A Brief Syriac Bio of an Arabic Poet
• An Iraqi Jewish Voice on Zionism in 1938
• MESA: No Longer Non-Political?
• Event Horizons: Turkey’s Military Coups and Varied Trajectories of History
• Did Muhammad Quote Paul?
• Recovering the Role of Christians in the History of the Middle East
• Al-‘Amiri’s Book of Notification of the Virtues of Islam
• Found: The Birmingham Qur’an (N=1)
• Teaching Digital (Middle Eastern) History
• Found: Early Modern Armenian Historians, or the Value of Outdated Editions Online
• Found: Pros and Cons of Multiple Calendars in the Medieval Middle East
• Partying Like It’s 1299: al-Dimashqi on Easter
• Found: Ibn Taymiyya on Palm Sunday
• Is ISIS Medieval?
• A Surfeit of Calendars in the Middle East
• Constructed Social Phenomena: The Right Metaphor?
• Islamic(ate) Studies at UChicago
• The Why and How of US Intervention in Iraq
• The Perils of Partitions: Iraq & Syria
• Found: 1918 List of Mosul Religious Buildings
• Lost: What’s in a Name?
• The Mosul Expulsion Decree
• The End of Christianity in Mosul
• The Qur’an in What Context?
• What is History?
• World Cup
• Iraq from the Northwest
• Missing the Boat: Public Religion in the Middle East
• Yemen at Center Stage
• Non-Muslim Significance? In the Company of Others…
• Non-Muslim Significance? The View from Below
• Non-Muslim Significance? The Advantages of Marginalia
• Non-Muslim Significance? The Danger of Oversimplification
• “Middle Eastern Christians? Who cares?”
• The Scurrilous Precision of Dates
• Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II Karim
• Found: A New Patriarch of Antioch
• Still Looking: Abducted Bishops
• Found: Disunity
• Lost: The Meaning of “al-Anfal”
• Don’t Look Now
• Lost in Space?
• Who are the Chaldeans?
• A Middle Eastern Perspective on Evangelii Gaudium
• Louis Sako on Middle Eastern Christians
• Watching and Waiting
• What America Forgets About Syria
• Killing for a (Humanitarian) Cause
• Syria’s Solution Depends on Moscow
• Why does the Muslim Brotherhood Hate the Copts?
• Found: Rumors and Suppositions of the Aleppo Bishops
• Syriac Christians Between Syria and Turkey
• A Lost Afghanistan
• The Difference Between Pragmatism and Loyalty
• Found: New non-News on Abducted Bishops
• Needed: (Near-)Consensus on Legitimacy
• The Human Dimension of Syria’s Conflict
• Found: The Power of Lost Causes
• The Expected Fate of US Arms in Syria
• Found: Dissension in Hezbollah’s Ranks
• Is Egypt Catching the Common Coup?
• Needed: Egyptian Definition of Freedom
• Syria: That Other Middle Eastern Crisis
• Two Interesting Reads on Syria
• The Sins of the Fathers…
• Found: Journalistic Differences
• Iran’s Election and Syria
• Who are Syria’s “good guys”?
• Lost: The Expected Cost of Syrian Regime Operations in Lebanon
• Lost: Syrian Rebels’ Strategy
• Found: Dialogue or Trap?
• Best piece on Syria in a while
• A Disappointing Lack of Details
• Yesterday and Today in Syria
• Lost or Found: Driving a Hard Bargain?
• Proxy Variables and Drone Effectiveness
• Found: Syria’s Other Secularist Opposition
• Who is George Sabra? (part 4)
• Found Again: Rumor of Abducted Bishops’ Good Health
• Are Drone Attacks Legal?
• Lost: Moral Reasoning on Drone Attacks
• Who is George Sabra? (part 3)
• Who is George Sabra? (part 2)
• The Chechen Connection
• The Terrorist Challenge to Liberal Democracy: IEDs
• Who is George Sabra?
• Found: The Myth of American Omnipotence
• Syria’s Two Revolts
• Found: location of Aleppo metropolitans?
• Lost: Specificity of Responsibility
• Do airstrikes serve Israeli interests?
• Found: Easter on Cinco de Mayo?
• Found: Proxy War Opportunity
• Surveying Muslims
• The Fall of the Minaret
• Found: Unverified News
• Lost: Voices of Moderation in Syria