The Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Book Award recognizes and promotes excellence in the field of Middle East gender, women’s and sexuality studies. Books published (copyrighted) in 2024 will be considered for the 2025 award. The competition is open only to books published in English. The winner is recognized at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association and receives a monetary prize. Other books deemed exceptional may receive an honorable mention.
Copies of the nominated book must be sent to individual Award Committee members (3 total) listed below. The deadline to submit the nomination form and the three copies of each nominated book is June 15, 2025. If you have any questions about the book award process, please contact Ellen McLarney at ellenmc@duke.edu.
Requirements:
Books published between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024 are eligible for this year’s award.
Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research. Works that are not eligible include edited collections and compilations, proceedings of symposia, new editions of previously published books, bibliographies, dictionaries, textbooks, and surveys. Books that have already been nominated for this book award cannot be renominated.
To Nominate a Book:
The deadline is June 15, 2025
Send copies of the book to each of the three members of the committee (information below).
The books should be postmarked by June 1, 2025.
Instructions:
Mail one copy of the nominated book to the members of the Book Award Committee:
Ellen McLarney
3901 Darby Road
Durham, NC 27707
ellenmc@duke.edu
Amy Kallander
145 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244
akalland@syr.edu
Hatoon Alfassi
7252 al-Hamawi Street
AlNafel, Riyadh 13312, Saudi Arabia
hatoon.alfassi@manchester.ac.uk
The nomination is not complete until each member of the committee receives a copy of the nominated book, which should be postmarked by June 1, 2025 to ensure delivery by June 15, 2025. Books cannot be returned.
AMEWS 2025 Book Awards