Welcome to the APSA MENA Section Awards! We are delighted to announce the 2022 MENA Politics Section Award winners.
Best Book (senior category)
Committee: Lisa Blaydes, Francesco Cavatorta, Noora Lori
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Mona El-Ghobashy (NYU), Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021) for best book.
The APSA-MENA Section recognizes Khalid Mustafa Medani (McGill University) Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) for best book.
Best Book (junior category)
Committee: Lisa Blaydes, Francesco Cavatorta, Noora Lori
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Avital Livny (University of Illinois),Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) for best book.
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Raphael Lefevre (University of Oxford), Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) for best book.
Best Article
Committee: Richard Nielsen, Bassel Salloukh, Zahra Babar
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Sarah Parkinson (Johns Hopkins), “(Dis)courtesy Bias: ‘Methodological Cognates,’ Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research,” Comparative Political Studies for best article.
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Lisel Hintz (Johns Hopkins-SAIS),“The Empire’s Opposition Strikes Back: Popular Culture as Creative Resistance Tool under Turkey’s AKP,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies for honorable mention, best article.
Best Dissertation
Committee: Adria Lawrence, Steven Brooke, Chantal Berman
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Jannis Grimm (Freie Universitãt Berlin), “Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt,” for best dissertation.
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Steven Schaaf (University of Mississippi), “Litigating the Authoritarian State: Lawful Resistance and Judicial Politics in the Middle East,” for honorable mention, best dissertation.
Best Fieldwork
Committee: Richard Nielsen, Bassel Salloukh, Zahra Barbar
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Dina Bishara (Cornell University),”The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics,” Comparative Political Studies, for best fieldwork.
Best Original Data Set
Committee: Richard Nielsen, Bassel Salloukh, Zahra Barbar,
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Neil Ketchley and Thoraya El-Rayyes, “Unpopular protest: Mass mobilization and attitudes to democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt,” Journal of Politics, for best original data set.