Niloofar Haeri
Johns Hopkins University
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
Stanford University Press
MESA Book Awards
MESA has three annual book awards:
The Albert Hourani Book Award recognizes a work that exemplifies scholarly excellence and clarity of presentation in the tradition of Albert Hourani.
The Nikki Keddie Book Award focuses on exceptional scholarship in religion, revolution, and/or society.
The Fatima Mernissi Book Award is given to the best work in studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience.
In addition to its three book awards, MESA also administers the Roger Owen Book Award which is given to the best work in the area of economics/economic history/political economy.
The award winners appear below. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.
Elise K. Burton
University of Toronto
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
Stanford University Press
Michael Christopher Low
Iowa State University
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Columbia University Press
Hagar Kotef
SOAS, University of London
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Duke University Press
Fadi A. Bardawil
Duke University
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Duke University Press
James Pickett
University of Pittsburgh
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Cornell University Press
Sima Shakhsari
University of Minnesota
Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
Duke University Press
Rosie Bsheer
Harvard University
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
Stanford University Press
Caterina Scaramelli
Boston University
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey
Stanford 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
M'hamed Oualdi
Sciences Po
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa
Columbia University Press
Maziyar Ghiabi
SOAS, University of London and University of Exeter
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Cambridge University Press
Wendy M. K. Shaw
Free University Berlin
What is 'Islamic' Art? Between Religion and Perception
Cambridge University Press
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Bard College
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Stanford University 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
Eric Calderwood
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Harvard University Press
Hiba Bou Akar
Columbia University
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Stanford University Press
Jack Tannous
Princeton University
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press
Fredrik Meiton
University of New Hampshire
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
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
Orit Bashkin
The University of Chicago
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Stanford University Press, 2017
Kevan Harris
University of California, Los Angeles
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
University of California Press, 2017
J.R. Osborn
Georgetown University
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017