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
Alireza Doostdar
The University of Chicago
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018
Noah Salomon
Carleton College
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Princeton University Press, 2016
Palestine Legal
MESA awarded its 2017 Academic Freedom Award to Palestine Legal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of people in the US who engage in advocacy for and academic inquiry about Palestinian rights.
Johan Mathew
Rutgers University
Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea
University of California Press
Hanan H. Hammad
Texas Christian University
Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
University of Texas Press
Signatories of Academic for Peace Petition in Turkey
MESA awarded the over 2,000 signatories of the Academics for Peace petition in Turkey its 2016 Academic Freedom Award on November 18, 2016.