MESA 2015 -- Roger Owen Book Award announcement
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The Everyday Maneuvers project member, Zeinab Abul-Magd (Oberlin College) won the prestigious biennial Roger Owen Book Award for Imagined Empires: A History of Revolt in Egypt (published by University of California Press). The announcement took place in Denver, Colorado at MESA’s (Middle East Studies Association) 2015 meeting. The winner of the award is the very best in economics, economic history, or the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa scholarship.
Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, the book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating local elites in the south of Egypt.
Congratulations with the award, Zeinab Abul-Magd!
See the following three links for more information:
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275539
http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/history/faculty_detail.dot?id=27038
