MESA Book Awards

Hagar Kotef

Hagar Kotef

SOAS, University of London

The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Duke University Press

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James Pickett

James Pickett

University of Pittsburgh

Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Cornell University Press

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Sima Shakhsari

Sima Shakhsari

University of Minnesota

Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
Duke University Press

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Zahra Ayubi

Zahra Ayubi

Dartmouth College

Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Columbia University Press

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Maziyar Ghiabi

Maziyar Ghiabi

SOAS, University of London and University of Exeter

Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Cambridge University Press

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Ilana Feldman

Ilana Feldman

George Washington University

Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
University of California Press

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Eric Calderwood

Eric Calderwood

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Harvard University Press

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Jack Tannous

Jack Tannous

Princeton University

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press

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Fredrik Meiton

Fredrik Meiton

University of New Hampshire

Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press

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Attiya Ahmad

Attiya Ahmad

George Washington University

Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017

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Kevan Harris

Kevan Harris

University of California, Los Angeles

A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
University of California Press, 2017

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J.R. Osborn

J.R. Osborn

Georgetown University

Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017

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Alireza Doostdar

Alireza Doostdar

The University of Chicago

The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018

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