MESA is a favorite event of the year for us at Stanford University Press, and we’ll miss seeing you all in person. To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the MESA Book Bazaar, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Middle East studies publishing at SUP.
Announcing the MESA 2021 Book Award Winners
2021 Middle East Studies Catalog
Announcing the MESA 2021 Book Award Winners
Nikki Keddie Book Award
- Elise Burton, Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity »
- Honorable Mention, Rosie Bsheer, Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia »
Roger Owen Book Award
- Amr Adly, Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt »
- Honorable Mention, Aaron Jakes, Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism »
Fatema Mernissi Book Award
Albert Hourani Book Award
- Honorable Mention, Caterina Scaramelli, How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey »
New Books
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off and free North American shipping on these and other recent SUP Middle East titles with discount code S21XMESA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
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2021 Middle East Studies Catalog
2021 Award Winners
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire »
RICHARD ANTARAMIAN
- Winner of the 2021 Der Mugrdechian Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS).
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique »
SA’ED ATSHAN
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, sponsored by the Association for Queer Anthropology.
- Honorable Mention in the 2020 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association.
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic »
NARGES BAJOGHLI
- Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Silver Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
- Winner of the 2020 Margaret Mead Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers »
HIBA BOU AKAR
- Lebanese Studies Association, Book Prize, Honorable Mention
- Winner of the 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Winner of the 2019 Anthony Leeds Prize, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Society for Urban, National, and Transnational / Global Anthropology (SUNTA) section.
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California »
SARAH GUALTIERI
- Winner of the 2021 The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award in the Arab American Book Awards, sponsored by the Arab American National Museum.
- Winner of the 2020 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies, sponsored by the Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War »
SHAY HAZKANI
- Longlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University and the Cundill Foundation.
For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World »
WILSON CHACKO JACOB
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Winner of the 2021 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association.
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity »
DARRYL LI
- Winner of the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (a unit of the American Anthropological Association).
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora »
DEVI MAYS
- Winner of the 2021 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
- Winner of the 2021 Jordan Schnitzer Prize in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania; sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS).
- Winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards, Sephardic Culture category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon »
HICHAM SAFIEDDINE
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Winner of the 2021 Lebanese Studies Association Book Prize, sponsored by the Lebanese Studies Association (LSA).
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine »
SOPHIA STAMATOPOULOU-ROBBINS
- Winner of the 2020 MES Book Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Middle East Section.
- Winner of the 2021 Julian Steward Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Anthropology and the Environment Section.
- Joint Winner of the the 2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize, sponsored by the American Ethnological Society.
- Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Winner of the 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara »
ELAINE SULLIVAN
- Winner of the 2022 Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
- Winner of the 2020 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice »
HEGHNAR WATENPAUGH
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History-Oversized category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
- Winner of the 2020 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Book Prize.
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) - History (World) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
- Shortlisted for the 2020 Saroyan Prize - Non-Fiction category, sponsored by the Stanford Libraries.
- Winner of the 2019 Der Mugrdechian Armenian Studies Book Award, sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS).
Digital Publishing Initiative
MESA Resources
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