Welcome to the APSA MENA Section Awards! We are delighted to announce the 2024–25 MENA Politics Section Award winners.
Award for Best Book
Committee: Jillian Schwedler (chair), Sharan Grewal, and Youssef El Chazli
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Diana Greenwald, Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine (Columbia University Press, 2024).
Honorable Mention (First Book): Rachel Brown, Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel (Duke University Press, 2024).
Best Book by a Senior Scholar: Güneş Murat Tezcür, Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Cornell University Press, 2024).
Award for Best Article
Committee: Pete Moore (chair), Dana El-Kurd, and Morten Valbjørn
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Fiona Adamson, “The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage,” International Studies Quarterly 68(1), 2024: 1–12.
Honorable Mention: Neil Ketchley, Ferdinand Eibl, and Jeroen Gunning, “Anti-Austerity Riots in Late Developing States: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada,” Perspectives on Politics 22(2), 2024: 481–500.
Honorable Mention: Christopher Barrie, Killian Clarke, and Neil Ketchley, “Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013–2018,” Journal of Peace Research 61(6), 2024: 952–966.
Award for Best Paper Presented at APSA
Committee: Neil Ketchley (chair), Summer Forester, and Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Berfin Baydar and Asli Cansunar, “Homogenizing High Street: Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination.”
Honorable Mention: Motasem Abuzaid and Kevin Mazur, “Nurturing Revolution: The Role of Social Networks and the Built Environment in the 2011 Syrian Uprising.”
Award for Best Dissertation
Committee: Wendy Pearlman (chair), Jasmine Gani, and Lisel Hintz
The APSA MENA Politics Section recognizes Elizabeth K. Parker-Magyar, “Workplace Networks and Autonomous Organizations in Contemporary Jordan,” Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024.
Honorable Mention: Rosa Burç, “Building a Society: Kurdish Transformative Mobilization in Times of Violence,” Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy).
Honorable Mention: Waleed K. Salem, “Seeing Like a Court: Judicial Agency in Autocratic Regimes and Transition Politics: The Case of Egypt,” Ph.D., University of Washington.