MESA awarded its 2010 Academic Freedom Award to the Iranian organization, Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), also known as the Council for Defending the Right to Education, in recognition of the group’s commitment to the promotion of academic rights and basic rights to freedom of thought and expression and applauds the courage and resolve of its members.
Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi’ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Edinburgh University Press
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press
MESA awarded its 2009 Academic Freedom Award to Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. Ziadeh has frequently given talks in and outside Syria on the status of human rights and democratic reform in Syria.
The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation
Oxford University Press
Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran
Brill Publishers
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Cornell University Press
Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Oxford University Press
