Albert Hourani Book Award

Maya Rosenfeld

Hebrew University

Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, & Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp
Stanford University Press

Rashid I. Khalidi

Rashid I. Khalidi

Columbia University

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East

Beacon Press

Heather J. Sharkey

University of Pennsylvania

Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
University of California Press

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Farha Ghannam

Swarthmore College

Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
University of California Press

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Jonathan Bloom

Boston College

Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Yale University Press

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Nadia Abu El-Haj

Columbia University

Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
University of Chicago Press

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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

Marianna Shreve Simpson

Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s Haft Awrang:  A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth Century Iran
Yale University Press

Marsha Pripstein Posusney

Bryant College

Labor and the State in Egypt:  Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring
Columbia University Press

Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

University of California, Berkeley

The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East
Cornell University Press

Andrew Shryock

State University of New York, Buffalo

Nationalism and Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan
University of California Press

Rashid I. Khalidi

Rashid I. Khalidi

University of Chicago

Palestinian Identity: The Construction of  Modern National Consciousness
Columbia University Press

Michael Gilsenan

New York University

Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in Arab Society
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. and University of California Press

Gülrü Neçipoglü

Harvard University

The Topkapi Scroll—Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities

Julia Clancy-Smith

University of Arizona

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904)
University of California Press

Devin DeWeese

Indiana University

Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
Penn State University Press

Chibli Mallat

University of London

The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi’i International
Cambridge University Press

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