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SUMMARY:Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference - Global Academy Special Session
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference will feature a Global Academy Special Session for Global Academy scholars to present their research and serve as discussants on two panels. Panelists include Program in Islamic Law Global Academy Scholars (2020-2021) Dr. Masoud Noori who will speak on\, “Islam and Human Rights: What Could/Should be Understood from the Qur’an?” alongside Dr. Issam Eido as a discussant. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/middle-eastern-studies-association-mesa-annual-conference-global-academy-special-session/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190401
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SUMMARY:MESA 2019 Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Nominations for the Albert Hourani Book Award\, the Nikki Keddie Book Award\, and the Fatima Mernissi Book Award are made simultaneously. Nominations can be made by either the publisher or the author. Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1\, 2018 and March 31\, 2019. The Albert Hourani Book Award recognizes a work that exemplifies scholarly excellence and clarity of presentation in the tradition of Albert Hourani. The Nikki Keddie Book Award focuses on exceptional scholarship in religion\, revolution\, and/or society. The Fatima Mernissi Book Award is given to the best work in studies of gender\, sexuality\, and women’s lived experience. The author of the Albert Hourani Book Award will receive $1000. The authors of the Nikki Keddie and Fatima Mernissi Book Awards will receive $500 each. In the event of co-winners\, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners for that competition. For more information about nominating a book to the above competitions\, see MESA Book Awards. \nThe Roger Owen Book Award recognizes the very best in economics\, economic history\, or the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa scholarship.  Works must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English (works translated from other languages into English will also be considered but will be judged by the same rigorous standards as those for works submitted in English) between April 1\, 2017\, and March 31\, 2019. The author of the single winning book will receive $2000. For more information about submitting to the Owen Book Award\, see the guidelines on MESA’s website.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/mesa-2019-book-awards/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Opportunities,prizes and nominations
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SUMMARY:Mesa Book Awards: Including Two New Awards
DESCRIPTION:The MESA Board of Directors has approved the creation of two new book awards honoring the pioneering efforts of two women. The inaugural awards will be presented at the 52nd MESA Annual Meeting in San Antonio\, Texas. \nThe Nikki Keddie Book Award was established to recognize an outstanding contribution on religion\, revolution\, and history/society. The annual award was named for Nikki Keddie to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and teacher. Read More \nThe Fatima Mernissi Book Award was established to recognize an outstanding contribution to studies of gender\, sexuality\, and women’s lived experience. The annual award was named for Fatima Mernissi to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and as a public intellectual. Read More  \nMESA INVITES NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2018 MESA BOOK AWARDS COMPETITION. \nNominations for all three MESA Book Awards – the Albert Hourani Book Award\, the Nikki Keddie Book Award\, and the Fatima Mernissi Book Award – are made simultaneously. Nominations can be made by either the publisher or the author. Although there is no limit on the number of titles that authors or publishers may submit\, we ask that they exercise discretion in the selection of books nominated.  Below is a list of criteria that should be met: \n\nBooks must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1\, 2017 and March 31\, 2018. Authors need not be members of MESA.\n\n  \n\nSubject matter must deal with the Middle East.  Areas primarily of interest include Iran\, Turkey\, Afghanistan\, Israel\, Pakistan\, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times.  Spain\, Southeastern Europe\, the Soviet Union and other regions also are included for the periods in which their territories were part of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.\n\n  \n\nWorks not eligible include edited collections and compilations\, proceedings of symposia\, new editions of previously published books\, bibliographies\, dictionaries\, textbooks\, and surveys.\n\n  \n\nNominations must be made by April 1\, 2018\, with books delivered to the readers by April 10\, 2018\, for books to be eligible for the competition. (Emailed nominations are acceptable)\n\nThe author of the Albert Hourani Book Award will receive $1000 and a certificate of award. The authors of the Nikki Keddie and Fatima Mernissi Book Awards will receive $500 each. In the event of co-winners\, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners. Honorable mentions also receive a certificate of award. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the 52ndMESA Annual Meeting in San Antonio\, Texas. As well\, the results will be posted on MESA’s website and in other publications as deemed appropriate by MESA. \n  \nFor more information about nominating a book\, see MESA Book Awards
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/mesa-book-awards-including-two-new-awards/
CATEGORIES:prizes and nominations
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SUMMARY:2017 MESA: Judicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family law
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Monika Lindbekk  \nThis paper analyzes aspects of judicial activism in the field of Egyptian personal status law for Muslims. In a country where reform of the current personal status codes is politically fraught\, family court judges perform an important semi-legislative task in interpreting and applying the law. Taking this as a point of departure\, the paper argues that courts are an important site for exercising Islamic authority and positioning citizens as religious subjects. Among other things\, family courts in Egypt contribute to an ongoing discourse on what constitutes the ideal family. In doing so\, family court judges help consolidate increasingly hegemonic notions of the nuclear family and conjugal marriage clothed in the Quranic language of mercy and amity (rahma wa mawadda). Thus\, contemporary family courts continuously re-inscribe shari‘a in state law and construct its meaning in a way which differs from classical Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh). This tendency has been reinforced by the introduction of computer technology with the stated aim of rationalizing legal practice by making it more uniform. The aforementioned developments in the family courts of Egypt resemble those that have occurred over the past few years in family courts of Tunisia and sharia courts of Malaysia where the same ‘rationalized Islam’ (in the sense of unified and standard) has been found to be at work. The introduction of computerization\, which involves the same paragraphs being reproduced over and over through the medium of templates\, provides a powerful impetus for the streamlining of judicial practice. However\, in the years following the 2011 uprising\, individual judges also used the courts as a platform to articulate alternative discourses. In the post-revolutionary environment\, they clearly crossed the border between adjudication and legislation by participating in public debate and becoming members of a legislative committee tasked with comprehensive family law reform.This paper analyzes the implications of judicial activism against a background where old and new actors and institutions competed over the right to interpret shari‘a in an authoritative way.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/2017-mesa-judicial-activism-in-the-field-of-egyptian-sharia-derived-family-law/
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SUMMARY:MESA Annual Meeting
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LOCATION:Marriott Wardman Park Hotel\, 2660 Woodley Rd NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20008
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