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.

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Tayeb El-Hibri

University of Massachusetts

Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate
Cambridge University Press

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Eugene Rogan

St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921
Cambridge University Press

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Mohammed A. Bamyeh

New York University

The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
University of Minnesota Press

Susan Slyomovics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Object of Memory:  Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village
University of Pennsylvania Press

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