British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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The prize is awarded for the best scholarly work on the Middle East published in the UK each year.

For details of the chronological remit and conditions for entry please see bkfsprize.com.
The recording of this year's Award Ceremony is now online. Do check it out. As well as an overview of the shortlisted titles, the winning authors discuss their work.
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#middleeast #oil #history
British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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December 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This year's winning title is:
Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East by PeterHill @oneworldbooks.bsky.social
Dr Hill was presented with the Award by Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah @soasuni.bsky.social
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#religion #science #prophet
2025 Winning Titles — British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
As we approach this year's Book Prize Award Ceremony, we would like to focus on the #Shortlist - www.bkfsprize.com/shortlisted-...
Check out some great scholarly reads =
#QajarIran #oil #middleeast #culture #damascus #ottoman #sufism #al-sulami #books
Shortlisted Titles 2025 — British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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October 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
All entries for this year's prize are now being assessed. The winning author(s) will be announced at the prize ceremony later in the year. Thank you to all the publishers who submitted. #middleeast #culture #islam #religion #publishing #books - bkfsprize.com
British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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May 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The deadline (17 Feb) for entries for this year's prize is fast approaching. The prize money of £20,000 (which may be divided) will be awarded for the best book on the Middle East published in English in the UK in 2024.
Criteria for entry and how to apply - www.bkfsprize.com
#middleeast #books
British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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February 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A reminder that we are now accepting entries for this year's prize for books published in 2024. Criteria www.bkfsprize.com/take-action. The prize money for winning authors is now £20K. #middleeast #culture #history #geography #politics #islam #religion #books #MENA
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January 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Celebrating our 2018 winning titles
A History of Algeria by @jamesrmcd.bsky.social (Cambridge University Press) & Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design by J.R. Osborn (Harvard University Press). Reviewer comments on these fabulous books www.bkfsprize.com/2018-1-1
2018 — British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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January 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Celebrating our 2020 winning title Electric News in Colonial Algeria by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social published by Oxford University Press. Hear Dr Asseraf in conversation with another of our winning authors @jamesrmcd.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=duAe...
#algeria #news #socialmedia #books
2020 Book Prize Online Ceremony
YouTube video by The British Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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January 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Celebrating our 2021 winners - Cosmopolitan Radicalism
The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties by Zeina Maasri @cambridgeup.bsky.social & The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue by Marina Rustow @princetonupress.bsky.social
Reviewer comments - www.bkfsprize.com/2018-1
2021 — British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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January 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Remembering our previous winning titles. In 2023 - Janet and Kamran Afary @edinburghup.bsky.social were the winning authors with their book - Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 www.bkfsprize.com/2023.
#iran #religion #sociology #gender #middleeast #sexuality
2023 — British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
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January 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Watch our 2024 Award Ceremony, including presentations to our winning authors www.bkfsprize.com
We are now accepting entries for this year's prize (£20,000). See the website for entry criteria. #MiddleEast #academia #publishing #history #society #culture #islam #politics #ir #art #architecture
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January 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Delighted to start the new year with the news that our prize money has been doubled to £20,000 per annum. Deadline for entries for books on the Middle East published in the UK in 2024 is 17 Feb. Criteria for entry - bkfsprize.com. #publishing #middleeast #culture #history #islam #art #politics
British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies Learn More
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January 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Delighted to start the new year with the news that our prize money has been doubled to £20,000 per annum. Submit entries for this year's prize (books on the Middle East published in the UK in 2024) by 17 Feb. Criteria for entry - bkfsprize.com. We look forward to receiving this year's entries.
January 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM