MESA Awarded its 2011 Academic Freedom Award “To all faculty, students and staff of Bahraini institutions of higher education who, by speaking out, documenting abuses, and engaging in myriad other forms of resistance have struggled against a range of brutal assaults by the Bahraini government upon academic freedom and upon the autonomy and integrity of the country's educational institutions.”
The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric
I.B. Tauris Publishers
Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran
Columbia University Press
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
University of Washington Press
A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Columbia University Press (series “History and Society of the Modern Middle East” Leila Fawaz, editor)
MESA awarded its 2010 Academic Freedom Award to the Iranian organization, Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), also known as the Council for Defending the Right to Education, in recognition of the group’s commitment to the promotion of academic rights and basic rights to freedom of thought and expression and applauds the courage and resolve of its members.
Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi’ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Edinburgh University Press
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press
MESA awarded its 2009 Academic Freedom Award to Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. Ziadeh has frequently given talks in and outside Syria on the status of human rights and democratic reform in Syria.
