Middle East Studies Association Conference 2020
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.
2021 Middle East Studies Catalog
New in Stanford Digital Projects
Virtual Events
Book Talk: A SUP Virtual Event
Kate Wahl, editor-in-chief, and SUP authors Narges Bajoghli and Sherene Seikaly discuss book publishing. In a broad-ranging conversation, they share experiences with and advice about writing and research, developing proposals and manuscripts, and approaching publishers.
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Recorded on July 22, 2020, series editors Joel Beinin and Laleh Khalili join in conversation with SUP authors Darryl Li and Nahid Siamdoust and editor-in-chief Kate Wahl to discuss the state of the series and publishing interests for the future.
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism, by Mana Kia
Recorded on July 31, 2020, Mana Kia discusses her new book with Nile Green, Afshin Marashi, and Katherine Schofield.
New Books and New SUP authors
Announcing 23 new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Middle East titles with discount code S20XMESA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
Greetings and presentations from recently published authors.
Our MESA Program Ad:
2021 Middle East Studies Catalog
This Year’s Award Winners
The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine »
- Winner of the 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association
The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice »
- 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 Mugredechian Armenian Studies Book Award, sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS)
- Named to the Top 25 Books of the Year, 2019, by Hyperallergic
The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire »
- Winner of the 2019 The Tomlinson Book Prize, sponsored by the World War One Historical Association (WW1HA)
- Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique »
- Honorable Mention for the 2020 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association
Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic »
- Winner of the 2020 Margaret Mead Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
Law and the Question of Palestine »
- Bronze Medal in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) – Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards
- Winner of the 2019 Palesteine Book Awards, sponsored by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO)
The Life and Art of David Ohannessian »
- Finalist in the 2020 PROSE Awards: Biography & Autobiography, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers
- Longlisted in the 2020 PEN /Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, sponsored by PEN America
Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq »
- Honorable Mention for the AMEWS 2020 Book Award
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean »
- Honorable Mention for the 2020 Mediterranean Seminar Book Prize
SUP Author Panels at MESA
Panel times noted below are from the MESA online program, so are given in Eastern Daylight Time.
Monday, October 5, 2020
Amr Adly, author of Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt
[P5887] Conflicts over Socioeconomic Reforms in Egypt and Tunisia post 2011
Monday, 10/05/20 11:00 am
Narges Bajoghli, author of Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
[R5837] A New Era in the Islamic Republic: Politics in Iran and Perceptions in Washington
Monday, 10/05/20 01:30 pm
Devi Mays, author of Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
[R5978] Surviving the Great War in Istanbul
Monday, 10/05/20 01:30 pm
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Ziad Fahmy, author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
[P5803] Arabic Radio Broadcasting in the Early Mid-20th Century
Tuesday, 10/06/20 01:30 pm
Zainab Saleh, author of Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
[P6056] Iraqi Modernities
Tuesday, 10/06/20 01:30 pm
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, author of Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
[R5850] Crisis and Change: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Climate
Tuesday, 10/06/20 01:30 pm
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Andrew Bush, author of Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan
[R6069] Art as Method and Lens for Middle East Studies
Wednesday, 10/07/20 11:00 am
Glenn Robinson, author of Global Jihad: A Brief History
[P6214] Social Movements and Solidarities
Wednesday, 10/07/20 01:30 pm
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Shana Minkin, author of Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt
[R5852] The Power of Bodies and Bones: Revisiting Death and Dying in the Middle East
Thursday, 10/08/20 11:00 am
Tamir Sorek, author of The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
[R5970] Projects of Modernity in Twentieth-Century Arabic Poetry
Thursday, 10/08/20 11:00 am
Rosie Bsheer, author of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
[R5886] Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
Thursday, 10/08/20 01:30 pm
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Haggai Ram, author of Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
Wednesday, 10/14/20 11:00 am
Friday, October 16, 2020
Alma Heckman, author of The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging
[R5961] Morocco and Spain during the Spanish Civil War
Friday, 10/16/20 11:00 am
Aaron Jakes, author of Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
[P5830] Show Me the Money: New Histories of Capitalism in the Ottoman World
Friday, 10/16/20 11:00 am
Yair Wallach, author of A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem
Friday, 10/16/20 11:00 am
From the SUP Blog Archives
Routes to the Southland
SARAH M. A. GUALTIERI
May 7, 2020
The corruption of debt
HICHAM SAFIEDDINE
November 15, 2019
Sato Moughalian, author of Feast of Ashes, on the beginnings of the Armenian Genocide.
SATO MOUGHALIAN
November 1, 2019
IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD TURNS TOWARDS HOLLYWOOD
Going beyond the label of propaganda in regime media.
NARGES BAJOGHLI
October 1, 2019
FINDING HIDDEN IMAGERY IN AN ILLUMINATED PAGE
A guided tour of the Zeytun Gospel’s Canon Tables reveals the extraordinary life of a matchless Armenian artwork
HEGHNAR ZEITLIAN WATENPAUGH
May 30, 2019
New in Stanford Digital Projects
Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara »
"Unimaginable in any other format, this publication is a one-stop shop for our attempt to untangle the significance of Saqqara over time."
—Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard University
Utilizing 3D technologies, Constructing the Sacred » addresses ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective to examine development at the complex, long-lived archaeological site of Saqqara, Egypt. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the built and natural environment affected burial rituals at the temple due to changes in visibility. Flipping the top-down view prevalent in archeology to a more human-centered perspective puts the focus on the dynamic evolution of an ancient site that is typically viewed as static.
Sullivan considers not just individual buildings, but re-contextualizes built spaces within the larger ancient landscape, engaging in materially-focused investigations of how monuments shape community memories and a culturally-specific sense of place, thus incorporating the qualitative aspects of human perception.
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