The winners of the 1997 Albert Hourani Book Award were announced on November 23, 1997, at the awards ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, California.

1997 Albert Hourani Book Award

Winners

Rashid Khalidi
University of Chicago
Palestinian Identity:
The Construction of
Modern National Consciousness
(Columbia University Press, 1997)

Andrew Shryock
State University of New York at Buffalo
Nationalism and Genealogical Imagination:
Oral History and Textual Authority
in Tribal Jordan
(University of California Press, 1997)