The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for the best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500 – 1500 CE). The prize will be awarded at the 2021 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. Below is a list of criteria for the upcoming…
Author: Theodore Beers
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MEM Announcements for MESA 2021
MEM Fellowship for Graduate Students of Color As promised in our July 2020 Statement on Anti-Racism, the Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce the launch of a new fellowship to support graduate students of color in medieval studies who wish to attend the annual meeting of the Middle East…
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Message from the Board: Anti-Racism
Middle East Medievalists Statement on Anti-Racism We, the Board of Middle East Medievalists, stand with the Black Lives Matter movement in condemning police brutality against Black people and in the fight against systemic racism and racial violence, police violence, mass incarceration, settler colonialism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. We denounce all violence against people of color and…