Ajam Podcast #45: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Persian Gulf

Episode 45 November 17, 2024 00:41:41
Ajam Podcast #45: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Persian Gulf
Ajam Media Collective Podcast
Ajam Podcast #45: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Persian Gulf

Nov 17 2024 | 00:41:41

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Show Notes

In this episode, Belle interviews Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, about his recent book, Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2024). In Making Space for the Gulf (and in our podcast episode), Keshavarzian offers a relational understanding of the Persian Gulf that foregrounds the entangled histories of its shores, as well as the body of water itself.

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