MELA Book Awards: 2023 Awardee
‘Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: The Franklin Book Programs in Iran’ is a remarkable work,
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MELA Book Awards: 2022 Awardees And Honorable Mentions
“The MELA Book Award Committee has decided to award…”
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MELA statement on protests and women’s rights in Iran
“We stand in solidarity with the Iranian people,”
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National Symbols in Modern Iran: Book Review
“The book’s argument, which stresses the limitations of elite-driven nationalist projects, is accurate and articulate.”
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Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War: Book Review
“Women’s experiences during the eight-year war affected their social and gender roles to a remarkable degree.”
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Challenges of Diversity: Nationalism and Minorities in Iran
The MELA Social Justice Committee will host a virtual lecture with Azadeh Vatanpour as part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East. The lecture will be on April 27th, 2021, at 11AM EDT (UTC -4). This lecture *will not be recorded*, so
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“We had no slaves in Iran”: Uncovering Evidence of an Erased History
The MELA Social Justice Committee will host a virtual lecture with Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh as part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East. The lecture will be on January 21st, 2021, at 11AM EST (UTC -5), and *will not be recorded*, so we
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The Sovietization of Azerbaijan: Review
“…highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.”
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Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora: Review
“This book is an excellent scholarly work that could fit primarily in academic libraries with collections on cultural studies, Middle East studies, and film and documentary work.”
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Unveiling Men: Review
“Wendy DeSouza is a lecturer in Iranian Studies in the Middle East/South Asia Program at the University of California, Davis.”
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