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MESA Virtual Book Exhibit

Save 50% with discount code 05MESA21 now through Dec 31, 2021.

Meet with our Editor

Although we are unable to see you in person, we’d still love to meet virtually. Set up a Zoom appointments with:

Peggy Solic, masolic@syr.edu

Acquiring for Contemporary Issues in the Middle East, Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East; Middle East Literature in Translation; Middle East Beyond Dominant Paradigms; Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East

Deborah Manion, dmmanion@syr.edu

Acquiring for Critical Arab American Studies

Featured titles and Recent Award Winners :
Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World
Maurice Ebileeni

Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey
Eray Çaylı

The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950
Mustafa Kabha and Nahum Karlinsky

Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal
Edited by Michael W. Suleiman, Suad Joseph, and Louise Cainkar

The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon
Gustavo Barbosa

The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora
Lisa Marchi

Recent award-winners:
Generations of Dissent: Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Alexa Firat, and R. Shareah Taleghani
2021 Outstanding Academic Title

Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa
Matt Buehler
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Award

Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism
Islah Jad
Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award

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