Dr. Mbaye Lo, (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), received the AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, for their book I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America. In this book, they weave fresh and accurate translations of eighteen surviving writings of Omar ibn Said (1770–1863), a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina. Read more about the award and get a copy of Dr. Lo's book at UNC Press.