Sabra J. Webber
Ohio State University
Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa
University of Pennsylvania Press
R.D. McChesney
New York University
Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine
Princeton University Press
Kenneth Cuno
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Pasha’s Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740–1858
Cambridge University Press
Brinkley Messick
University of Michigan
The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
University of California Press
Steven Caton
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Peaks of Yemen I Summon”: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe
University of California Press
Abraham Marcus
University of Texas at Austin
The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century
Columbia University Press