Jere L. Bacharach Service Award
Bassam Haddad
George Mason University
2017 Recipient
As an assertive and ambitious visionary, he has created numerous collaborations, networks, and projects among people, young and old, across the many fields and communities of Middle East studies resulting in: the Arab Studies Journal, Quilting Point, Jadaliyya, JadMag, Tadween Publishing with its Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative, and the audio production, Status. All these have broadened and diversified the audiences accessing analyses and appreciations of contemporary events and cultures in the region and provided educators with a rich array of discerning and hip new materials for the classroom.