Jack Tannous
Princeton University
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press
Fredrik Meiton
University of New Hampshire
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press
Hatoon Al Fassi
MESA awarded its 2018 Academic Freedom Award to Dr. Hatoon Ajwad Al Fassi, the Saudi scholar, writer, and women’s rights advocate.
Sussan Siavoshi
Trinity University
Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017
Attiya Ahmad
George Washington University
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017
Orit Bashkin
The University of Chicago
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Stanford University Press, 2017
Kevan Harris
University of California, Los Angeles
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
University of California Press, 2017
J.R. Osborn
Georgetown University
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017
Alireza Doostdar
The University of Chicago
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018
Noah Salomon
Carleton College
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Princeton University Press, 2016
Palestine Legal
MESA awarded its 2017 Academic Freedom Award to Palestine Legal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of people in the US who engage in advocacy for and academic inquiry about Palestinian rights.
