This week, Kimberly Cassibry and Elizabeth Macaulay discuss the architectural history and political messaging of triumphal arches. Then, a new book looks at W.E.B. Du Bois and Ancient Rome; researcher...

Abstract. Mathias Hanses’s new book examines the Black American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois’s lifelong engagement with the Roman orator Marcus Tu

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision By Alaa Alqaisi It began with an email from Dr. James Heaney, a professor of English and Irish studies at Carlow University, …

Join us at AUC Tahrir and on zoom on October 23 for a day of celebration of Egyptian and Palestinian living heritage! The event, the second of a series to be held this year in the context of EO’s 1…

by Christine Johnston Today, after twenty years as a member of ASOR, I am choosing to let my membership lapse. I am choosing affective disengagement, meaning that I am withdrawing my participation …

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SAFA – Newly updated Google Earth satellite imagery has revealed the staggering scale of destruction across Rafah, with vast sections of the southern Gaza city lying in ruins following Israeli militar

A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.

History is written by the victors. But what happens when the story they tell is a lie?

“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…

This week, ancient historian Jeremy Simmons discusses Rome, India, and his new book on ancient Indian Ocean trade networks. Then, new mosaics may honor two beloved ancient pets, a new book on Aristotl...

The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

This week, classicist Jermaine Bryant discusses Zora Neale Hurston's posthumously published The Life of Herod the Great. Then, a new study of the mass grave at Phaleron (Attica) confirms a local popul...

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Abstract. This is the first book to study Vietnamese classicisms. Drawing on decolonial theory, critical refugee studies, and queer of color critique, Nguy

Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison

With its emphasis on craft and a PR campaign tailored to the genius of its director, Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” wants to save cinema from the fangs of AI. But for all its visual magnificence, the f...

Editors of the anthology Palestine is Everywhere -- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg -- recently launched a new "Palestine is Everywhere" platform to host a series of monthly commissions, "creating an ongoing space to support and amplify the work of artists, writers, and practitioners from Palestine and the wider region." You can explore the platform here:

by Chance Bonar Eusebius Pamphilius, bishop of Caesarea Maritima (modern Qesarya/قِيسارْيَة, Israel), is a fixture in the study of ancient Christianity. Living from the 260s to 339 CE and spending …

μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, of this special Homer issue to prepare you to head to the theaters to see The Odyssey this week. Our resident Homer sage, Joel Christensen, discusses his new book, Why Odysseus?: Su...

I usually flinch from swashbuckling claims, but let me make this one at least: No hero from ancient myth feels as human as Odysseus. No one as relatable