The winners of the 1998 Albert Hourani Book Award were announced on December 4, 1998, at the awards ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

1998 Albert Hourani Book Award

Winners

Kiren Aziz Chaudhry
University of California, Berkeley

The Price of Wealth:
Economies and Institutions in the Middle East

(
Cornell University Press, 1997)

Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Bryant College

Labor and the State in Egypt:
Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring

(
Columbia University Press, 1998)

 Honorable Mention

Marianna Shreve Simpson
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s Haft Awrang:
A Princely Manuscript
from Sixteenth Century Iran
(
Yale University Press)