George A. Kiraz is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, teaches Syriac at Princeton University, and is the director of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. He has written extensively on Syriac studies, computational linguistics, and the digital humanities. 

The Cairo Genizah, a treasure trove of…

In Brothers Behind Bars, Mathias Ghyoot tells the story if the imprisonment of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt stretching from the Palestine War to 1975. Drawing on hundreds of prison memoirs written by Muslim Brothers and Sisters, the book takes the reader on a journey behind the prison walls to show how radicals and moderates,…

Women’s associations (hevrot) tended to the sick, clothed the needy, dowered indigent brides, and perhaps most prominently, prepared the dead for burial. These sororities provided women with a formal communal setting in which they could express leadership, independent management and piety. The enterprise and efficiency women…

In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on intercommunal conflict, rooting slow violence in socioeconomic shifts and climatic fluctuations. From the 19th to the early 20th centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of…