The winners of the 2004 Albert Hourani Book Award were announced on November 21, 2004, at the awards ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, California.

2004 Albert Hourani Book Award

Winner

Leslie Peirce
University of California, Berkeley

Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab

(University of California Press)

Honorable Mentions

Rashid I. Khalidi
Columbia University

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East
(Beacon Press)

Maya Rosenfeld
The Harry S. Truman Research Institute,
The Hebrew University

Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, & Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp
(Stanford University Press )

Richard Martin (Chair of the Book Award Committee) congratulates Leslie Peirce.
 
Rashid I. Khalidi
 
Maya Rosenfeld