Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS University of London) received the Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award in a virtual MEM business meeting in December 2021.
Each year the MEM Board of Directors awards the Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award to a scholar who has served the field of medieval Middle Eastern Studies with distinction. Past honorees have included:
2020: Michael Cook (Princeton University)
2019: Maribel Fierro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
2018: Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago)
2017: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Georgetown University)
2016: Fred M. Donner (University of Chicago)
2015: Richard W. Bulliet (Columbia University)
2014: Patricia Crone (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
2013: R. Stephen Humphreys (University of California Santa Barbara)
2011: Wadad Kadi (University of Chicago)
2010: Not awarded
2009: Jere Bacharach (University of Washington)
2002–08: Not awarded
2001: Ira M. Lapidus (University of California, Berkeley)
2000: Pierre Cachia (Columbia University)
1999: Sam I. Gellens (Horace Mann School, New York)
1998: George T. Scanlon (American University in Cairo)