Gülru Necipoğlu
Harvard University
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2005
Saba Mahmood
University of California, Berkeley
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Princeton University Press, 2005
Robert R. Bianchi
University of Chicago
Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World
Oxford University Press, 2004
Iranian Writer, Akbar Ganji
MESA awarded the 2005 Academic Freedom Award to Iranian writer Akbar Ganji, a major figure in promoting intellectual and political debate in the Islamic Republic over much of the past ten years and a man who has paid an enormous price for his efforts by spending the last five of those years in some of the country’s most notorious prisons and cell blocks.
Fatma Muge Gocek, Ron Suny and all the scholars associated with the Workshop for Armenian-Turkish Scholarship
MESA Awarded its 2005 Academic Freedom Award to Fatma Muge Gocek of the University of Michigan and Ron Suny of the University of Chicago, and all the scholars associated with the Workshop for Armenian-Turkish Scholarship.
Leslie Peirce
University of California, Berkeley
Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab
University of California Press
Maya Rosenfeld
Hebrew University
Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, & Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp
Stanford University Press
Rashid I. Khalidi
Columbia University
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East
Beacon Press
Matrouk Al-Faleh
MESA Awarded its 2004 Academic Freedom Award to Dr. Matrouk Al-Faleh, professor of political science at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for his courageous advocacy of democratic rights and civil liberties in Saudi Arabia.
