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The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world.
Washington, DC
Joined December 2013
80% of participating MESA members have voted in favor of endorsing the BDS resolution in solidarity with Palestinian scholars and students. For more details, see:
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MESA’s Board of Directors supports the Palestinian people, and condemns Israeli governmental violence as part of the ongoing, systematic oppression of Palestinians. There can be neither academic freedom nor full access to education under apartheid.
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The #MESA2021 Academic Freedom Award winner is Boğaziçi University Faculty, Students, and Alumni.
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On December 2, 2021, MESA members attending the Annual Meeting voted to advance a BDS resolution to a full-membership vote in early 2022. For more details:
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MESA calls upon @POTUS and the US government to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the immediate and unconditional lifting of the siege on the Gaza Strip, and the prevention of human rights abuses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Laila Soueif (Cairo University) is this year’s recipient of the MESA Academic Freedom Award. #MESA2020.
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The #MESA2022 Academic Freedom Award goes the the following Palestinian NGO’s:.@Addameer.@alhaq_org.@BisanResearch.@DCIPalestine.@of_committees.@UAWC1986.
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The #MESA2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award Co-Winner is The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier by Chris Gratien (University of Virginia), published by @stanfordpress
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The #MESA2021 Albert Hourani Book Award winner is Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj by @MChrisLow (Iowa State University), published by @ColumbiaUP.
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Choon Hwee Koh (Yale University) wins the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences for her dissertation, “The Sublime Post: A History of Empire and Power through the Ottoman Post Station System, 1600-1839.” #MESA2020.
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Maziyar Ghiabi (SOAS, Univ. of London and Univ. of Exeter) wins the 2020 Nikki Keddie Book Award for his book, “Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” published by Cambridge Univ. Press. #MESA2020.
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@MESA_1966 and @CAF4MESA view with alarm the recent attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests. Universities and colleges must recommit to freedom of inquiry, expression, and protest—now more than ever. Full statement:.
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We truly hoped to meet in person in Montreal in late October, so this was a difficult decision to make, but the safety and health of our communities come first. #MESA2021 will be fully virtual. All events will be rescheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 3.
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The 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award goes to Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College) for her book, “Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine,” published by Stanford Univ. Press. #MESA2020.
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⭐MESA 2021 Call for Papers⭐. TODAY marks the first day to submit proposals for MESA's 55th annual meeting to be held in the fall of 2021. Submissions will be accepted until Feb 18, 2021.
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The #MESA2021 Owen Book Award winner is Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt by Amr Adly (American University in Cairo), published by @stanfordpress.
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The MESA community has watched with horror and sorrow the images of tragedy and destruction coming from Turkey and Syria after the earthquakes. Our hearts have broken with the news of so much loss.
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The #MESA2022 Albert Hourani Book Award Winner is Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus by @waleedziad (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Published by @Harvard_Press
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The #MESA2021 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award winner in the Humanities is @dr_anasekulic for her dissertation, “Conversion of the Landscape: Environment and Religious Politics in an Early Modern Ottoman Town.”
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The #MESA2022 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities Co-Winner is @CyrilUyII for his dissertation, “Lost in a Sea of Letters: Sa'd al-Din Hamuya (d. 1252) and the Plurality of Sufi Knowledge.”
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Alireza Doostar (UChicago) wins the Albert Hourani Book Award for his book “Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny” .#MESA2018.
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The #MESA2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award Award Mention is The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan by Kathryn Babayan @kbabayan (University of Michigan), published by @stanfordpress
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The #MESA2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award Honorable Mention is Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation by Mona El-Ghobashy (New Yxork University), published by Stanford University Press
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MESA deplores the life sentence issued by a UAE court to Matthew Hedges, a student from the U.K. Hedges is a doctoral candidate who was pursuing his purely academic research in the country when he was detained and imprisoned.
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MESA Board Statement on Palestine and Israel. Full text: Thread following with a summary description.
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#Employment The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Persian Literature and Culture.
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The #MESA2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award Winner is Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan by Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi @Sonia_Tirmizi(Columbia University), published by @stanfordpress
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Hiba Bou Akar (Columbia Univ.) wins the 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award for her book, “For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers,” published with Stanford Univ. Press #MESA2019.
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Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi (Univ. of Oxford) wins the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities for her dissertation, “Muʿtaqal Machine: Power, Gender and Identity in Egypt’s Political Prisons, 1948-1981.” #MESA2020.
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⭐MESA 2021 Call for Papers⭐. MESA calls for submissions from members for its 55th annual meeting to be held in the fall of 2021. Submissions will be accepted from Jan 8- Feb 18, 2021.
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#Employment The Yale University Department of History seeks to make a tenure-track assistant professor appointment in the history of the nineteenth-century Middle East.
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MESA’s Board of Directors calls on university administrators to robustly defend the academic freedom of their faculty, students, and staff within Zoom and other corporate-controlled virtual meeting platforms. Full statement:
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While the official #MESA2019 dance party was cancelled, the Arab Studies Institute put on a great “rogue stealth dance fest” last night!!
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43 scholarly associations and institutions of higher ed join MESA, AIAS, & @ScholarsatRisk in urging the Biden Administration to take immediate action to enable the safe and speedy relocation of Afghanistan’s students and scholars.
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The #MESA2023 Albert Hourani Book Award Co-winner is Mostafa Minawi for “Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire” (Stanford University Press).
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The honorable mention goes to M'hamed Oualdi (Sciences Po) for his book, “A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa,” published by Columbia Univ. Press. #MESA2020.
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The #MESA2021 Nikki Keddie Book Award winner is Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity by Elise K. Burton (University of Toronto), published by @stanfordpress
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Noura Wahby’s (Univ. of Cambridge) dissertation, “The Role of the State in Urban Development: The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt,” wins the Malcom H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences. #MESA2019.
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The conference program for #MESA2020 and complete attendee guide are now available! Find more information here:
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Salih Çan Açiköz (UCLA) wins the Fatema Mernissi Book Award for his book, “Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey,” published by Univ. of California Press. #MESA2020.
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.What are the vocabularies of race and Blackness in the Middle East and North Africa?. Register for MESA’s Lexicons of Race Project, featuring commentary from activists, academics, and journalists, Sep 12-15.
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#MESA2020 starts in five days! Don't forget to register today: Here are six reasons to attend:
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#Announcement Jam3a: a Virtual MENA Workspace invites early career scholars to join online, interdisciplinary co-working space for scholars from and working on the MENA region.
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The Board of Directors of @MESA_1966 and @CAF4MESA vehemently condemn the decimation of the education sector in Gaza by Israel’s military campaign against the Palestinian people of Gaza, and urgently insist upon its immediate cessation. Full letter:
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The #MESA2022 Jere L. Bachrach Service Award Co-Winner is Marlis J. Saleh of the University of Chicago
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MESA declares its solidarity with student and faculty protestors of the recent developments at Boğaziçi University. The Board of Directors of MESA condemns the ongoing and intensified government assault on higher education in Turkey. Full statement:
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The #MESA2022 Mentoring Award Winner is Kirsten Brustad of the University of Texas at Austin.
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The #MESA2021 Graduate Student Paper Prize winner is @acatleong11 for her paper, “Re-thinking female javānmardī: Neẓāmī’s Haft Paykar as a ‘Mirror for Princesses.’”
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#MESA2020 starts today! There's still time to register today for exciting program sessions, plenary events, a virtual Book Exhibit, and Film Festival:
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MESA 2018 has a theme! Without Boundaries: The Global Middle East, Then and Now. Be inspired, let those connections crackle and get your colleagues on board. Submit your ideas to the program committee by the deadline: Midnight (Mountain Standard time) February 15, 2018.
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The #MESA2021 Fatema Mernissi Book Award winner is Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haeri (Johns Hopkins University), published by @stanfordpress.
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MESA along with other academic associations in the social sciences and humanities have written to the Constitutional Court of Turkey in support of the right of scholars and academics who signed the Academics for Peace Petition.
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#MESA2020 program results have been released! Check your myMESA account to see if your submission made it onto the program!.
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#Announcement Jam3a: a Virtual MENA Workspace announces Memoirs of the Middle East & North Africa, an ongoing collaborative effort to compile an exhaustive list of memoirs penned by historical figures in the region.
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The #MESA2022 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences Co-Winner is Xiaoyue Li, for his dissertation “Taming the Iron Horse: Austerity, Subversion, and Revolution in Colonial Egyptian Railways, 1876-1924.”
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Over the coming weeks, we will be continuing to share some of the highlights from #MESA2020. To kick things off for the recap: @CAF4MESA recognized Laila Soueif (@CairoUniversity) who received the 2020 MESA Academic Freedom Award!
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Thanks to organizers, participants, and attendees of #MESA2017DC for a great conference! Safe travels, and we can't wait to see everyone in 2018!.
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The honorable mention goes to Michelle D. Weitzel (New School for Social Research) for her dissertation, “Drones, Sirens, and Prayer Calls: Unheard Consequences of a Politics of Sound.” #MESA2020.
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The #MESA2024 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities Winner is Olga Verlato for “Languages of Power and People: Multilingualism, Politics, and Resistance in Modern Egypt and the Mediterranean.”.
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The honorable mention goes to Wendy M. K. Shaw (Free Univ. Berlin) for “What is 'Islamic' Art? Between Religion and Perception,” published by Cambridge Univ. Press. #MESA2020.
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18 major scholarly societies join MESA in expressing concern about the Department of Education’s interpretation of Title VI.
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#Employment The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is seeking outstanding scholars of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa for a residential fellowship to begin September 1, 2024.
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Shireen Hamza (Harvard Univ.) wins this year’s Student Paper Prize for her paper, “The Hammam as a Public Space: Heath, Labor and Desire in Late Medieval Bathhouses.” .#MESA2018.
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Results are in from the 2018 MESA Elections!. Congratulations to Dina Rizk Khoury (George Washington Univ.) who is President-Elect, and congratulations to Orit Bashkin (U Chicago) and Nadia G. Yaqub (Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill) who will be joining the board in November.
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#Employment Indiana University, Bloomington invites applications for a tenure-track position in the modern (post-1750) social and/or political history of the Middle East and North Africa at the rank of assistant professor, to begin in August 2025.
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⭐MESA 2024 Call for Papers⭐.MESA calls for submissions from members for its 58th annual meeting to be held virtually from November 11-16. Submissions will be accepted until February 15, 2024 at 11:59 AM (EST). Please see submission instructions here:
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The honorable mention goes to Zahra Ayubi (Dartmouth College) for her book, “Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society,” published by Columbia Univ. Press. #MESA2020.
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#Employment The Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in cultural studies of the Middle East at the assistant professor level, to begin September 1, 2024.
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The #MESA2020 Albert Hourani Book Award winner is Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College), published by @stanfordpress!
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The 2020 MESA Student Paper Prize goes to Timothy Y. Loh’s (MIT) paper, “Language in Medical Worlds: The Politics of Hearing Technology, Speaking, and Arabic for Deaf Children in Jordan.” #MESA2020.
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#VirtualEvent @AndOttoman and MESA are co-sponsoring a Zoom panel Monday, February 15. Boğaziçi professors will discuss the state of higher education in Turkey by reflecting on Boğaziçi University's past and analyzing recent events.
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The #MESA2022 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities Co-Winner is Tiffany Floyd for her dissertation, "Dreaming of Ancient Times: Mesopotamia and the Temporal Topography of Iraqi Modern Art, 1958-2003.”
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@MESA_1966 and @CAF4MESA decry in the strongest of terms the growing number of cases of colleges and universities calling on police to repress campus protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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The co-winners for the Inaugural Nikki Keddie Book Award are Orit Bashkin (UChicago) for “Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel” and Kevan Harris (UCLA) for “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran”.#MESA2018.
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The #MESA2022 Graduate Student Paper Prize Co-Winner is @KhneisserMona for her paper, “Cracks & Leaks of Water Infrastructure in Lebanon: The ‘Making & Unmaking’ of Hydrogeologies, Historical Subjectivities & Political Imaginaries.”
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We want to see more graduate students at #MESA2019, which is why we have the Wadad Kadi Fellowships for Doctoral Students! .Students whose papers are accepted to the program & who have applied for the fellowships will be considered for a $500 travel award
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The #MESA2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award Co-Winner is An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis by Karen E. Rignall (University of Kentucky), published by @CornellPress
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The #MESA2024 Nikki Keddie Book Award Co-Winner is Sara Rahnama for “The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria” (Cornell University Press). @smrahnama .@cornellpress.
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Ilana Feldman (George Washington Univ.) received the Fatima Mernissi Book Award for “Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics,” published with Univ. of California Press #MESA2019.
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The Board of Directors of MESA issued a statement this morning on "Deteriorating Security Conditions for Researchers in the United Arab Emirates.". Read the full statement here: .
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The #MESA2022 Graduate Student Paper Prize Co-Winner is Benjamin Jones for his paper, Sudanized Folklore: The Roxanne Connick Carlisle Collection and Music of Sudan in the 1960s.”
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The #MESA2021 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award winner in the Social Sciences is @gozdeguran for her dissertation, “Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria.”
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The #MESA2023 Roger Owen Book Award Co-winner is José Ciro Martínez for “States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan” (Stanford University Press).
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#callforpapers The Middle East Studies Association invites submissions of graduate student research papers on the Middle East. Winner will be presented with a certificate and $250 cash award at the Awards Ceremony at MESA's annual meeting in Denver, CO.
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Homa Hoodfar of Concordia University is this year’s recipient of the MESA Academic Freedom Award #MESA2019.
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We will be live-tweeting, "When the Middle East is Black: A Roundtable on Race, Boundaries, and the Politics of Middle Eastern Studies," a #MESA2020 session, in 30 minutes, at 11:00 am Eastern Time!.
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MESA's Board of Directors has endorsed a statement by our affiliate @AIS_1967's Committee on Academic Freedom, expressing solidarity with the Iranian academics' petition that calls for the protection of citizenship rights for all Iranians.
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The MESA Film Festival is in its 37th year and is an integral part of the #MESA2020 Annual Meeting. We are excited to be offering a virtual FilmFest, where registered attendees can stream films directly from our conference site. Register here
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The #MESA2023 Albert Hourani Book Award Co-winner is Jessica M. Marglin for “The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean” (Princeton University Press).
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