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Each
year the Board of Directors of MEM offers a prize of $250 for the best
graduate student paper on a medieval topic at the annual Middle East Studies
Association meeting. The winner is announced at the annual business
meeting of MEM, held in conjunction with MESA. Although modest in amount, it is
hoped that this award will encourage graduate students with an interest
in the medieval period to attend the conference. One need not be a member
of MEM to be considered for this prize. Graduate Students who are
scheduled to present a paper on a medieval topic at MESA-2006 and who
wish to have their contributions considered for the 2006 prize should submit
a copy of their paper (please check rules of submission) to MEM’s secretary Steven
C. Judd (Southern Connecticut
State University).
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Winners
of the MEM Graduate Student Prize:
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1995
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Paul M. Cobb (University of Chicago),
“Al-Mutawakkil in Damascus, 244/858.”
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1996
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Marianne Engle Cameron
(University of Chicago), “Sayf at First: A
Comparison of Conquest Narratives in Ibn Asakir's Recension of Sayf b. ‘Umar with al-Tabari's Recension of Sayf.”
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1997
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Maya Yazigi (UCLA), “Reaching a Viable Truce: Medieval Muslim Women and the
Art of Compromise.”
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1998
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Amina A. Elbendary (American
University in Cairo), “The
Sultan, the Tyrant and the Hero: Changing Medieval Perceptions of al-Zahir
Baybars.”
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1999
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Oya Pancaraglu (Harvard University), “Socializing Medicine: Illustrations of the Kitab
al-Diryaq.”
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2000
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Deborah G. Tor (Harvard University),
“Historical Representations of Ya‘qub ibn al-Layth: A Reappraisal.”
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2001
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Dagmar A. Riedel (Indiana University),
“Of God and Sultans: Leadership and Royal Ethics
in the Rahat al-Sudur by Rawandi (fl. 1180-1200).”
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2002
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Tamer El-Leithy (Princeton University), “Between Assimilation and Resistance: New Evidence on
Conversion Practices in Mamluk Society.”
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2003
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Elizabeth Alexandrin (McGill University), “Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi’s Mir’ât al-Zamân and the Basâsîrî Débâcle.”
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2004
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Behnam Sadeghi (Princeton University), “How Law does not Mirror Values: Two Case Studies in Women
in the Public Space.”
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2005
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Uriel Simonsohn (Princeton University), “Muslim Intervention or Non-Muslim Appeal: The Question
of Communal Demarcation in Medieval Islam.”
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2006
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Michael E.
Pregill (Columbia
University), “Ahab, Bar Kokhba, Muhammad, and the Lying Spirit:
Prophetic Discourse before and after the Rise of Islam.”
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2007
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Christine
D. Baker (University of Texas, Austin),
“Rebellion and the Rise of the Fatimids: The Crafting of Foundational Narratives.”
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