{"id":1181,"date":"2010-04-19T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinkramer.org\/sandbox\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2010-04-19T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:33:22","slug":"the-washington-institute-book-prize-last-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2010\/04\/the-washington-institute-book-prize-last-call\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Institute Book Prize, last call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has issued its last call for submissions for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/templateC11.php?CID=479\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Washington Institute Book Prize<\/a>. The prize, inaugurated two years ago, is awarded annually to three outstanding new books that have illuminated the Middle East for American readers. Gold Prize is $30,000, Silver Prize is $15,000, and Bronze Prize is $5,000. The competition is open to new books published in the United States for the first time in English between May 1, 2009, and May 1, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize recipients were <em>A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel <\/em>by Allis and Ronald Radosh (Gold Medal), <em>The Crisis of Islamic Civilization<\/em> by Ali A. Allawi (Silver Medal), and <em>Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East<\/em> by Martin Indyk (Bronze Medal).<\/p>\n<p>Only publishers may submit books, so if you\u2019re the author of an eligible book, get on the phone to your publisher <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline for the 2010 Washington Institute Book Prize is May 1. Total of $50k in prize awards. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2010\/04\/the-washington-institute-book-prize-last-call\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101137,101256],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-prize","tag-the-washington-institute-for-near-east-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}