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AMEWS has established a yearly prize for junior scholars:

The AMEWS annual prize is awarded to a junior scholar working in any discipline on a topic concerned with Middle Eastern and/or North African women. Submissions of articles or book chapters published between between July 31, 2000 and July 31, 2001 are invited. Eligible candidates are scholars working toward a graduate degree or who are no more than four years beyond the Ph.D.

Please submit materials by August 1, 2001 to:

Dr. Marilyn Booth
1009 S. Orchard St.,
Urbana IL 61801
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The 1999 AMEWS Prize was awarded to Kashvar Rizvi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work on women and Safavid architecture.

The 2000 AMEWS Prize was awarded to Houri Berberian, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History California State University, Long Beach for her article, "Armenian Women in Turn-of -the-Century Iran: Education and Activism."