Rebooting the Middle East, one episode at a time. Hosted by John Ghazvinian and "Brian the IT Guy". A production of the University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center.
From the marshes of southern Iraq, to a limestone quarry in Tunisia, to a small Sicilian village to Ditmars Park in Brooklyn and the building of the New York City Subway and the Statue of Liberty…. anthropologist Bridget Guarasci somehow connects it all.
20 Jul 2022
Episode 6: The Politics of Middle Eastern Art
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, founder of the renowned Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, takes us on a journey through the fascinating, high-voltage landscape of Middle Eastern art in a very special summer edition of Middle East 2.0. Al-Qassemi will discuss his beginnings in the world of art, new artistic directions, and the importance of highlighting women artists in the region.
21 Apr 2022
Episode 5: Robots and Magic in the Medieval Middle East
Join us as Elly Truitt takes us into the weird and wonderful world of early Middle East tech -- from the world's first analog computer, to a mechanical wine servant, to a royal throne that could whiz up to the ceiling on command.
15 Feb 2022
Episode 4: The Arab Poetic Tradition
Penn's leading scholar of Arabic literature, Huda Fakhreddine, shares her thoughts on poetry, translation, orientalism, and the meaning of her father's poetic legacy.
28 Oct 2021
Episode 3: Meet Harun Küçük
The Middle East Center's new director, Harun Küçük, joins us for a very special edition of the podcast.
16 Sept 2021
Episode 2: A Tale of Two Cities: Beirut-Dakar in the French Colonial Empire
Penn Ph.D. candidate Dahlia El Zein explores the worlds of Senegalese soldiers and Syrian-Lebanese traders against the backdrop of French imperialism from 1920 to 1946.
28 Jul 2021
Episode 1: Muslims, Motorcycles, and Manuscripts
Penn’s own Professor Jamal Elias takes us on a wide-ranging journey through Islamic iconography, visual art, trucks and motorcycles — and how he discovered a lost manuscript in the mountains of Tibet.
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