AGAPS 2025 Awards Winners

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A big congratulations to the 2025 AGAPS award winners!

Visit our 2025 awards page to read the commendations.

2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award Winner:
Dr. Crystal Ennis, Leiden University
Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman
(Cambridge University Press)

Honorable Mention:
Dr. Arang Keshavarzian, New York University
Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East 
(Stanford University Press)

2025 AGAPS Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award Winner
Dr. Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi, Princeton University
An Enchanted Sea: Occultism, empire, and society in the Western Indian Ocean, 1450-1750

Honorable Mention:
Dr. Gabriel Young, New York University
State, Land, and Labor in the Making of an Iraqi Periphery: Basra, 1921-1963

Thanks to both of this year's independent review committees for all of their hard work.

2025 Award Committee Members

Prof. Nelida Fuccaro, Prof. Tim Niblock & Prof. Amal Sachedina
Dr. Nadeen Dakkak, Dr. Christian Henderson & Dr. Hsinyen Lai