Maya Mikdashi
Rutgers University
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Stanford University Press
Fatema Mernissi Book Award
The Fatema Mernissi Book Award was established in 2017 to recognize outstanding scholarship in studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience. The annual award was named for Fatema Mernissi to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and as a public intellectual. The award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony held during MESA’s annual meeting.
The award winners will appear below once the award is given. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.
Kirsten L. Scheid
American University in Beirut
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950
Indiana University Press
Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
Columbia University
Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Stanford University Press
Kathryn Babayan
University of Michigan
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Stanford University Press
Niloofar Haeri
Johns Hopkins University
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
Stanford University Press
Hagar Kotef
SOAS, University of London
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Duke University Press
Sima Shakhsari
University of Minnesota
Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
Duke University Press
Zahra Ayubi
Dartmouth College
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Columbia University Press
Salih Can Açıksöz
UCLA
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
University of California Press
Stefania Pandolfo
University of California, Berkeley
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
University of Chicago Press
Ilana Feldman
George Washington University
Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
University of California Press
Attiya Ahmad
George Washington University
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017