Middle East Studies Association

MESA Book Awards
2023 Albert Hourani Book Award Co-Winner

Mostafa Minawi

Cornell University

Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire

Stanford University Press

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards
2023 Honorable Mention (Humanities)

Yahya Nurgat

University of Cambridge, Faculty of History

MESA Book Awards
2023 Fatema Mernissi Book Award Honorable Mention

Kirsten L. Scheid

American University in Beirut

Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950

Indiana University Press

MESA Book Awards
2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award Honorable Mention

Carel Bertram

San Francisco State University

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Stanford University Press

Roger Owen Book Award
2023 Co-Winner

José Ciro Martínez

University of York

States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan

Stanford University Press

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards
2023 Honorable Mention (Humanities)

Sada Payır

University of Oxford, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

MESA Book Awards
2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award Honorable Mention

Manijeh Moradian

Barnard College, Columbia University

This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

Duke University Press

MESA Book Awards
2023 Albert Hourani Book Award Honorable Mention

Nomi Stone

University of Texas, Dallas

Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire

University of California Press

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards
2023 Honorable Mention (Social Sciences)

Sophie Frankford

University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

MESA Academic Freedom Award
2022 Recipient

The 2022 MESA Academic Freedom Award has been given to 6 Palestinian NGOs — Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees — for their decades-long pursuit of academic freedom, courageous resilience, and contributions to the field of Middle East Studies.