MESA is a favorite event of the year for us at Stanford University Press, and we are excited to see you all in person. In addition to our booth at MESA, we offer this virtual space to showcase highlights from the last year of Middle East studies publishing at SUP.
Virtual Exhibit
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 S22XMESA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
2022 Award Winners
Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt »
AMR ADLY
- Winner of the 2021 Roger Owen Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
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).
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia »
ROSIE BSHEER
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Winner of the 2021 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Winner of the 2021 AGAPS Biennial Book Award, sponsored by The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS).
- Named a 2021 Best Book of the Year (Middle East Category) by Foreign Affairs
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity »
ELISE K. BURTON
- Winner of the 2021 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation »
MONA EL-GHOBASHY
- Joint-Winner of the 2022 Charles Taylor Book Award, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) - Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group (IMM).
- Joint-Winner of the 2022 APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Book, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) - Middle East and North Africa Politics Section.
Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt »
ZIAD FAHMY
- Winner of the 2021 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award, sponsored by the Urban History Association.
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.
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran »
NILOOFAR HAERI
- Winner of the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, sponsored by the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
- Winner of the 2021 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA).
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.
- Winner of the 2022 Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies, sponsored by the Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel.
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging »
ALMA RACHEL HECKMAN
- Named a 2021 Best Book of the Year by Middle East Eye.
For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World »
WILSON CHACKO JACOB
- Winner of the 2021 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association.
Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism »
AARON G. JAKES
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Roger Owen Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Winner of the 2021 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway »
MIKIYA KOYAGI
- Co-Winner of the 2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, sponsored by the International Society for Iranian Studies.
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center Book Prize, sponsored by the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies.
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 2021 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies, sponsored by the Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.
- Winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards, Sephardic Culture category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel »
HAGGAI RAM
- Co-winner of the the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies Award, sponsored by Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library.
- Winner of the 2020-21 Rorabaugh Book Prize for the Best Book in the History of Alcohol and Drugs, sponsored by the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS).
Global Jihad: A Brief History »
GLENN E. ROBINSON
- Named a 2021 Best Book of the Year by Foreign Policy.
- Named a 2021 Best Book of the Year (Middle East Category) by Foreign Affairs.
Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon »
HICHAM SAFIEDDINE
- Winner of the 2021 Lebanese Studies Association Book Prize, sponsored by the Lebanese Studies Association (LSA).
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia »
ZAINAB SALEH
- Winner of the 2022 Arab American Book Awards, sponsored by the Arab American National Museum.
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey »
CATERINA SCARAMELLI
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
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).
ALAN VERSKIN
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem »
YAIR WALLACH
- Winner of the 2022 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS).
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).
MESA Resources
If you have a book project, Kate Wahl, editor-in-chief, will be at the conference. Drop by the SUP booth during session breaks to say hello. Instructions for submitting book proposals to SUP are available online.
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