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MESA
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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.
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    Mar 23, 2022
    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: mesana.org/news/2022/03/2…
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    May 21, 2021
    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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    MESA’s Board of Directors condemns the ongoing Israeli government assault on the Palestinian people. It views the damaging and targeting of educational facilities and violence toward students and...
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    Dec 2, 2021
    The #MESA2021 Academic Freedom Award winner is Boğaziçi University Faculty, Students, and Alumni.
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    Dec 2, 2021
    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: mesana.org/news/2021/12/0…
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    Nov 21, 2023
    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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    Letter on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America calling on the Biden administration to support an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in — and lifting of the...
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    Oct 11, 2020
    Laila Soueif (Cairo University) is this year’s recipient of the MESA Academic Freedom Award. #MESA2020
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    Mar 11, 2024
    @MESA1966 Board of Directors Joint Statement with @CAF4MESA regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza:
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    The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association and its Committee on Academic Freedom condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel, result...
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    Dec 3, 2022
    The #MESA2022 Academic Freedom Award goes the the following Palestinian NGO’s: @Addameer @alhaq_org @BisanResearch @DCIPalestine @of_committees @UAWC1986
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    Dec 3, 2022
    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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    Dec 3, 2022
    The #MESA2022 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences Co-Winner is Omar Sirri @osirri for his dissertation, "Scarecrows of the State: An Ethnography of Security Checkpoints in Contemporary Baghdad.”
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    Dec 2, 2021
    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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    Oct 11, 2020
    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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    Dec 3, 2022
    The #MESA2022 Albert Hourani Book Award Honorable Mention is Empire of Salons: "Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" by Helen Pfiefer @krel7 (University of Cambridge), published by Princeton University Press.
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    Mar 13, 2025
    The MESA Board of Directors has released a critical statement addressing the repression of academic freedom in the United States. Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/lette… #AcademicFreedom #MESA #HigherEducation
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