Edition 8 (2014)
Winners
8 peopleA sweeping study that follows the idea of evolution beyond biology into social, cultural, linguistic, and economic history.
Human evolution is reconsidered across multiple fields of study.
Thirty poems on nature, family, school, play, and imagination introduce children to the rhythm and sound of Arabic verse.
Gentle language and poetic rhythm open a child’s senses and imagination.
A critical study that maps post-colonial discourse in contemporary Arab criticism from both theoretical and practical angles.
The book presents a new horizon for criticism as a theoretical map.
A historical study of how lodging, trade, and travel institutions developed across the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
The history of inns, trade, and travel becomes a way to reread the interconnected Mediterranean world.
A man raised in an Egyptian village travels through Ismailia and Vienna across four decades, moving through love, music, and exile.
A life that begins in the village and expands across cities and continents is told with quiet intensity.
A major work of history and archaeology that traces how ancient Babylon has been imagined and reconstructed in the modern era.
The book follows modern imagination around the question of “real Babylon.”