Transregional Middle Easts

Transregional Middle Easts is a new book series from the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah’s Middle East Center. The series welcomes manuscripts addressing the traditionally defined Middle East, including Egypt, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, and Iran. At the same time, recognizing the urgent need to rethink rigid nation-state and regional boundaries within Middle East studies, we also welcome manuscripts that explore the Middle East’s connections to its neighboring geo-cultural zones and diasporas. This broader perspective includes North Africa, the Turkic, Ottoman, and Persian worlds, the Mediterranean and the Balkans, Central Asia, South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the wider Islamic world from the seventh century to present.

We seek innovative approaches that situate the specificities of the Middle East within global, comparative, and connective frameworks, addressing topics such as diasporas, mobility, and the flow of ideas, as well as issues related to disease, environmental change, and technological exchange. The series invites contributions from scholars practicing across a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to anthropology, art and architecture, cultural studies, geography, environmental studies, gender, history, literature, political science, religious studies, and sociology.

Reflecting the University of Utah Press’s location in the American West and established strengths, our acquisitions team and editorial board are especially interested in manuscripts and proposals focused on environmental issues, arid landscapes, water, religious history and traditions, and other United States-Middle East connections.

We welcome proposals for monographs and edited volumes, as well as annotated translations, anthologies, and other creative projects.

Editorial Board:

Yiğit Akin, Ohio State University

Hannah Barker, Arizona State University

Fahad Bishara, University of Virginia

Edith Chen, University of Utah

Dina Danon, Binghamton University

Jennifer Derr, University of California, Santa Cruz

Annie Greene, University of Utah

Mehmet Kentel, Leiden University

Natalie Koch, Syracuse University

Yuree Noh, University of Utah