Circumstances permitting, our judges meet each year in Cambridge to decide the winning title(s).

Each entry is reviewed by anonymous reviewers, who then make recommendations to the judges. Some comments about winning titles from the anonymous reviewers are noted next to the titles.  

Judges

Frances Guy
CEO of Scotland’s International Development Alliance (Chair of the Judges)

Professor Carole Hillenbrand 
Professor Emerita of Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh and Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews

Professor Yasir Suleiman 
Emeritus Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge  

Dr Elisabeth Kendall
The Mistress, Girton College, Cambridge

Professor Ali Ansari
Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews

Sheikh Mubarak al-Abdullah al-Mubarak Al Sabah 
(on behalf of the Abdullah Mubarak Charitable Foundation)