BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies
About the Award
This is an honorary award established in 2000 by BRISMES Council. It is presented annually in recognition of outstanding services to Middle Eastern Studies.
Terms of Reference
The award is intended for persons or organisations who have made a consistent contribution to Middle East Studies in Britain over a period of years or to a person or organisation who has made an outstanding single contribution over the previous year. Anyone or any organisation fulfilling these criteria, as specified below, is eligible, without exception on the basis of nationality, residence, profession or background. The following are guidelines to the criteria that BRISMES will consider but BRISMES will accept nominations outside these guidelines if the proposer makes a persuasive case for doing so.
- For an outstanding record in published research on the Middle East;
- For the establishment of new departments or significantly expanding positions in the field of Middle East Studies;
- For providing/winning major new resources for Middle East Studies in Britain;
- For exceptional contributions to raising the profile of Middle East Studies in and outside the UK.
2024 Recipient
Professor Ilan Pappé
BRISMES is delighted and proud to award the 2024 Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies to Professor Ilan Pappé. Professor Pappé’s contribution to our field has been nothing short of transformative. Over decades, he has helped reshape our understanding of modern Middle Eastern history—especially the history of Israel-Palestine. As one of the original Israeli ‘new historians’, he has challenged dominant narratives and, through meticulous archival work, amplified perspectives of Palestinian historians that had long been marginalized.
Professor Pappé embodies everything this award was created to recognise:
A distinguished body of published work; the building of academic institutions; the shaping of new generations of scholars; and an extraordinary contribution to public and political understanding of the Middle East.
2001-2023 Recipients
- Professor Karma Naboulsi (2023)
- Professor Laleh Khalili (2022)
- Professor Nicola Pratt (2021)
- Professor Paul Starkey (2020)
- Professor Deniz Kandiyoti (2019)
- Paul Auchterlonie (2018)
- Professor Charles Tripp (2017)
- Sir Roger Tomkys (2016)
- Professor Carole Hillenbrand, CBE (2015)
- Professor Ian Netton (2014)
- Alastair Newton (2013)
- Professor the Baroness Afshar, OBE (2012)
- Sir Harold Walker (2011)
- Patrick Seale (2010)
- Professor Roger Owen (2009)
- Professor Fred Halliday (2008)
- Professor Edmund Bosworth (2007)
- Professor Harry Norris (2006)
- Professor Geoffrey Lewis (2005)
- Professor Ann Lambton (2004)
- Dr Derek Hopwood, OBE (2003)
- Professor William Montgomery Watt (2002)
- HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi (2001)
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