This year's winning titles will be announced tomorrow. Check out the shortlist shorturl.at/NX7NP Some great titles on the #MiddleEast

Delighted to announce that Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and his Historical Project is this year’s winning title Congratulations to Nasser Rabbat & Edinburgh University Press. Check out reviewer comments here bkfsprize.com/2024#history #middleeast #Egypt

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim Oneworld Publications is this year’s runner up title. Fabulous overview given by Avi at the Award Ceremony this evening. Check out reviewer comments here bkfsprize.com/2024. #books #memoir

Delighted that this year's winning authors talked about their work at the Award Ceremony on 6th November. Speeches here - bkfsprize.com #MiddleEast #memoir #history

A fantastic evening celebrating 26 years of the British Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize. To see more content from the evening, including speeches from this year’s winner, Nasser Rabbat, and runner up, Avi Shlaim, head to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bkfs1

Writing Egypt: al-Maqrizi and his Historical Project won the 2024 best book prize in Middle East Studies by the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society. bkfsprize.com/2024 Here is my acceptance speech at the ceremony in the Mansion House, London, Nov 6. youtube.com/watch?v=pJyWNc…

My long interview on al-Maqrizi, his life, work, influence, and the status of Islamic art and architecture study on Muslim Footprints, S2 Ep 4: Al Maqrizi, Egypt's Most Famous Historian with Nasser Rabbat youtu.be/NBu9nE7QuEw?si… via YouTube

To celebrate 25 years of the book prize, the prize money has been increased to £20,000 a year. See this year’s winners talk about their work: bkfsprize.com Entries in Jan 2025 for books published in 2024. Watch this space! #award #publishing #prize #middleeast

A reminder of the fabulous shortlist this year - bkfsprize.com/2024 Books on #sunnism, #poets #arabia, #iran, #syria #gulag, #asad, #Quran with shortlisted books from I.B. Tauris Cambridge University Press - History Princeton University Press Oneworld Publications & Edinburgh University Press

Delighted to start the new year with news that our prize money has been doubled to £20,000 per annum. Submit entries for this year's prize (books on the Middle East published in the UK in 2024) by 17 February. Criteria for entry - bkfsprize.com

Our prize money is now £20,000 per annum. Deadline for entries for books on the Middle East published in the UK in 2024 is 17 Feb. Criteria for entry - bkfsprize.com. #publishing; #middleeast; #culture; #history; #islam; #art; #politics; #mena; #academia

Watch our 2024 Award Ceremony, including presentations to our winning authors bkfsprize.com Now accepting entries for this year's prize (£20,000). Criteria on website #MiddleEast #academia #publishing #history #society #culture #islam #politics #ir #art #architecture

Remembering our previous winning titles. In 2023 - Janet and Kamran Afary Edinburgh University Press were the winning authors with their book - Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 bkfsprize.com/2023. #iran #religion #sociology #gender #middleeast #sexuality

Celebrating our 2021 winners - Cosmopolitan Radicalism The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties by Zeina Maasri Cambridge University Press & The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue by Marina Rustow Princeton University Press Reviewer comments - bkfsprize.com/2018-1

Celebrating our 2020 winning title Electric News in Colonial Algeria by @arthurasseraf by Oxford Academic. Hear Dr Asseraf in conversation with another of our winning authors @jamesrmcd youtube.com/watch?v=duAeUu… #algeria #news #socialmedia #books

Celebrating our 2018 winning titles A History of Algeria by James McDowall Cambridge University Press & Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design by J.R. Osborn Harvard University Press. Reviewer comments on these fabulous books bkfsprize.com/2018-1-1

The deadline (17 Feb) for entries for this year's prize is close. Prize money of £20,000 (which may be divided) will be awarded for the best book on the Middle East published in English in the UK in 2024. Entry criteria * how to apply - bkfsprize.com #middleeast #books

Entries for this year's prize are currently being assessed. We will announce the winning title(s) at an award ceremony later in the year. Thanks to all the publishers who submitted some fabulous entries. #MiddleEast #Culture #Islam #religion #books #academia

As we approach this year's Book Prize Award Ceremony, we would like to focus on the #Shortlist - bkfsprize.com/shortlisted-ti… Check out some great scholarly reads = #QajarIran #oil #middleeast #culture #damascus #ottoman #sufism #al-sulami #books