Heather J. Sharkey
University of Pennsylvania
Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
University of California Press
Farha Ghannam
Swarthmore College
Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
University of California Press
Jonathan P. Berkey
Davidson College
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800
Cambridge University Press
Jonathan Bloom
Boston College
Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Yale University Press
Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peleg
Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship
Cambridge University Press
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Columbia University
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
University of Chicago Press
Arif Dalila
MESA awarded the 2002 Academic Freedom Award to Arif Dalila for his courageous advocacy of democratic rights and civil liberties in Syria.
Michael Cook
Princeton University
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Cambridge University Press
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
MESA awarded its first Academic Freedom Award in 2001 to Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim in recognition of his dedication to the promotion of democratic rights and civil liberties through his teaching and scholarship, and his commitment as a public intellectual to the principles of free expression and free exchange of information and ideas.