Sophia Vasalou
University of Cambridge
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press
Radwan Ziadeh
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.
Shafique N. Virani
University of Toronto
The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation
Oxford University Press
Maria E. Subtelny
University of Toronto
Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran
Brill Publishers
Ussama Makdisi
Rice University
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Cornell University Press
Marc David Baer
University of California, Irvine
Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Oxford University Press
Vanessa Martin
University of London
The Qajar Pact: Bargaining, Protest and the State in 19th Century Persia
I.B. Tauris
Beatrice Forbes Manz
Tufts University
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
Cambridge University Press
Sa'ad Eskander
MESA awarded its 2007 Academic Freedom Award to Sa'ad Eskander. Dr. Eskander is the Director-General, Iraq National Library and Archive, where he has carried on a four-year struggle to defend and preserve the cultural heritage of all Iraq for all Iraqis.
Jessica Winegar
Temple University
Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt