The deadline for entries for next year's prize will be in early 2010.
To submit entries, please return the entry form no later than 10th February 2010, together with SEVEN copies of each title submitted to the Administrative Office:
Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Durham University
The Al-Qasimi Building
Elvet Hill Road
Durham
DH1 3TU
UK
A prize or prizes will be awarded each year to the value of up to £10,000 for the best scholarly work in English on the Middle East which has been published in its first edition in the United Kingdom. We are now accepting submissions for books published during the calendar year 2009 and listed in Whitaker's Books in Print. Particular consideration will ge given to books of sound scholarship which enhance understanding of the Middle East among a wider readership in the English speaking world. Translations of work published in other modern languages are not eligible.
The judges welcome entries on any aspect of Middle East studies. Normally the chronological remit of the prize will be from the rise of Islam until the present day, but outstanding scholarly entries from the pre-Islamic era may also be considered.
The award of the prize is the sole responsibility of the judges, whose decision is final. If the judges so decide, the prize may be divided.
The criteria on which the judges' decision will be based will be:
(i) Originality
(ii) Clarity and Accessibility
(iii) Importance to the field
Collections of articles by several authors published in a single volume will not be considered.
Entries will be welcomed from the following fields:
(i) Language and literature
(ii) Islamic Studies
(iii) Sociology, anthropology, history, politics, geography, economics and international relations
(iv) Islamic art and archaeology
The British Kuwait Friendship Society judges are:
Administrative Office
Telephone: 0191 33 45179
WOCMES 2010
The Third World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies will be held in Barcelona between 19th and 24th July 2010.
Read more...Annual Lecture 2009
British and French military intelligence in Syria and Palestine, 1914-18. Myths and RealityTuesday, 15th December 2009, at 5.30pmKhalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
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