The winner of the 1999 Albert Hourani Book Award was announced on November 20, 1999, at the awards ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting in Washington, DC.

1999 Albert Hourani Book Award

Winner

Susan Slyomovics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Object of Memory: 
Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village

(
University of Pennsylvania Press, May 1998)

Honorable Mention

Mohammed A. Bamyeh
New York University

The Social Origins of Islam
(
University of Minnesota Press)