Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace
MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom has selected Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace as the recipient of MESA’s Academic Freedom Award for 2023.
Maya Mikdashi
Rutgers University
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Stanford University Press
Nadim Bawalsa
Institute for Palestine Studies
Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948
Stanford University Press
Jessica M. Marglin
University of Southern California
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean
Princeton University Press
Natasha Iskander
New York University
Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21-st Century Qatar and Beyond.
Princeton University Press
Mostafa Minawi
Cornell University
Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
Stanford University Press
Kirsten L. Scheid
American University in Beirut
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950
Indiana University Press
Carel Bertram
San Francisco State University
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory
Stanford University Press
José Ciro Martínez
University of York
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan
Stanford University Press
Manijeh Moradian
Barnard College, Columbia University
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
Duke University Press
Nomi Stone
University of Texas, Dallas
Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
University of California Press
Palestinian NGOs
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.
