Our acquisitions editor Teddi Dols was in Washington, D.C., last week for the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. #MESA2025
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our acquisitions editor Teddi Dols was in Washington, D.C., last week for the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. #MESA2025
Hello #MESA2025! We hope to see you at our booth
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
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@mesa1966.bsky.social
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
@mesa1966.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hello #MESA2025! We hope to see you at our booth
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
@mesa1966.bsky.social
If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
@mesa1966.bsky.social
INTERACT @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social at #MESA2025 in DC 📍
Follow our colleague @myriahmed.bsky.social for updates on her work about social mobilization in #Sudan and stay tuned for her article on the ecology of the Karthoum sit-in!
Follow our colleague @myriahmed.bsky.social for updates on her work about social mobilization in #Sudan and stay tuned for her article on the ecology of the Karthoum sit-in!
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
INTERACT @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social at #MESA2025 in DC 📍
Follow our colleague @myriahmed.bsky.social for updates on her work about social mobilization in #Sudan and stay tuned for her article on the ecology of the Karthoum sit-in!
Follow our colleague @myriahmed.bsky.social for updates on her work about social mobilization in #Sudan and stay tuned for her article on the ecology of the Karthoum sit-in!
Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025
The Sublime Post
A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-di...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025
We’re exhibiting at #MESA2025 in Washington, DC!
Find us at Booth 18–19 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown. On display: titles from @brepols.net, @equinoxpub.bsky.social, Gerlach Press, @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social, @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social, @peeterspublishers.bsky.social, & more!
Booth photos⬇️
Find us at Booth 18–19 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown. On display: titles from @brepols.net, @equinoxpub.bsky.social, Gerlach Press, @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social, @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social, @peeterspublishers.bsky.social, & more!
Booth photos⬇️
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We’re exhibiting at #MESA2025 in Washington, DC!
Find us at Booth 18–19 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown. On display: titles from @brepols.net, @equinoxpub.bsky.social, Gerlach Press, @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social, @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social, @peeterspublishers.bsky.social, & more!
Booth photos⬇️
Find us at Booth 18–19 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown. On display: titles from @brepols.net, @equinoxpub.bsky.social, Gerlach Press, @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social, @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social, @peeterspublishers.bsky.social, & more!
Booth photos⬇️
Loot from #MESA2025 - the bottom two were actually free, as presses were finding ways to give away display copies while offering free shipping on discounted online orders
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Loot from #MESA2025 - the bottom two were actually free, as presses were finding ways to give away display copies while offering free shipping on discounted online orders
And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Listening to @abshlimon.bsky.social call attention to scholars diminishing the Assyrian Genocide and Assyrian narratives of their identity #Iraq #Mesa2025
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Listening to @abshlimon.bsky.social call attention to scholars diminishing the Assyrian Genocide and Assyrian narratives of their identity #Iraq #Mesa2025
Join MESA! Support scholarship, defend academic freedom, and grow your network. Together, we are stronger.
Be part of the community at #MESA2025. Register now:
mesana.org/annual-meeti...
Be part of the community at #MESA2025. Register now:
mesana.org/annual-meeti...
September 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Join MESA! Support scholarship, defend academic freedom, and grow your network. Together, we are stronger.
Be part of the community at #MESA2025. Register now:
mesana.org/annual-meeti...
Be part of the community at #MESA2025. Register now:
mesana.org/annual-meeti...
Books take time to write. If you can’t attend the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting this weekend in DC and would like a photograph of your book at the conference exhibit, please let me know. I’d be more than happy to help celebrate your hard work! #MESA2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Books take time to write. If you can’t attend the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting this weekend in DC and would like a photograph of your book at the conference exhibit, please let me know. I’d be more than happy to help celebrate your hard work! #MESA2025
![Life and Biopolitics in Islamic Legal Literature
Much work in social theory has focused on ideas of life itself, sometimes under the name of biopolitics. This literature focuses on how states categorize and give value to different forms of life as part of their effort toward social control. While some scholars, following Michel Foucault, see this kind of biopolitics as a quintessential feature of the modern state, others, following Giorgio Agamben see this phenomenon as having defined political life in Europe at least since ancient Greece. In both cases, analysis proceeds by understanding a kind of value-spectrum of life, usually with humans from the most-dominant group at the highest end of the spectrum and with animals or insects at the lowest end of the spectrum. This panel seeks to add to this body of scholarship by turning towards the Islamic legal heritage. What forms of life do can we find in this heritage? How is life conceived of and given value in legal texts? How do these understandings relate to conceptions of life in other Islamic intellectual traditions?
Organizer: Elias G. Saba
Submit a 300-word abstract with a short (75 word) bio to Elias G. Saba (sabaelia[]grinnell[]edu) by January 25 for full consideration.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a5ymgoatdsut7mnnji7dn7ls/bafkreih35e3iisnnstfgkbs7hn2tor2rw6jc4ypojhxjldpr6k2kqvbs7e)
Congratulations to @keshavarziana.bsky.social, whose Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Roger Owen Book Award #MESA2025 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Making Space for the Gulf | Stanford University Press
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has be...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Congratulations to @keshavarziana.bsky.social, whose Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Roger Owen Book Award #MESA2025 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Let's kick off #MESA2025 in the most traditional way: sharing the recipe for an Egyptian lentil soup!
NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
A Tomato-y Egyptian Lentil Soup for Cooler Days
Author Anny Gaul shares a cozy recipe for fall soup season that highlights the key themes in her book, "Nile Nightshade."
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November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Let's kick off #MESA2025 in the most traditional way: sharing the recipe for an Egyptian lentil soup!
NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
Good morning, #MESA2025 attendees! It's our only full day of exhibiting so you've got all morning and afternoon to drop by and see our latest Middle East Studies books and chat with one of our editors.
Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Good morning, #MESA2025 attendees! It's our only full day of exhibiting so you've got all morning and afternoon to drop by and see our latest Middle East Studies books and chat with one of our editors.
Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Start your morning with these though-provoking reads at booth 48 from our distributed presses: @agendapub.bsky.social, @columbiagsapp.bsky.social, @fernpub.bsky.social, Jagiellonian University Press, and @transcript-verlag.bsky.social . buff.ly/V5fihtc #MESA2025 @mesa1966.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Start your morning with these though-provoking reads at booth 48 from our distributed presses: @agendapub.bsky.social, @columbiagsapp.bsky.social, @fernpub.bsky.social, Jagiellonian University Press, and @transcript-verlag.bsky.social . buff.ly/V5fihtc #MESA2025 @mesa1966.bsky.social
STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
Thank you to @mesa1966.bsky.social and all #MESA2025 attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Middle East Studies Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thank you to @mesa1966.bsky.social and all #MESA2025 attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for #MESA2026!
Secure your discounted rate for #MESA2025! Pre-registration closes in 4 days on October 24. Don't miss out!
For more information: mesana.org/annual-meeti...
For more information: mesana.org/annual-meeti...
October 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Secure your discounted rate for #MESA2025! Pre-registration closes in 4 days on October 24. Don't miss out!
For more information: mesana.org/annual-meeti...
For more information: mesana.org/annual-meeti...
It's the last day of #MESA2025 and we're only here for the morning! Stop by before noon for your last chance to check out our latest Middle East Studies books.
Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's the last day of #MESA2025 and we're only here for the morning! Stop by before noon for your last chance to check out our latest Middle East Studies books.
Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Greetings to @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Come by the @georgetownup.bsky.social booth and see what’s new! Or come chat about your new book project!
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Greetings to @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Come by the @georgetownup.bsky.social booth and see what’s new! Or come chat about your new book project!
Our books in Middle East studies reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list. Stop by booth 48 or visit us online to check out our new titles for 2025-2026! buff.ly/V5fihtc @mesa1966.bsky.social #MESA2025
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Our books in Middle East studies reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list. Stop by booth 48 or visit us online to check out our new titles for 2025-2026! buff.ly/V5fihtc @mesa1966.bsky.social #MESA2025