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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@oneworldbooks.bsky.social @ibtauris.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
#middleeast #oil #history

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
www.bkfsprize.com/winning-titl...
#religion #science #prophet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.