The book Verschleierte Wirklichkeit: Die Frau, der Islam und der Westen (Veiled Reality: Women, Islam, and the West), co-authored by Bettina Mathes and Christina von Braun, has been awarded the prize for "Best Academic Book of 2007" in the category "Humanities and Cultural Sciences" by the Austrian Ministry for Research, in conjunction with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a group of publishers.  More information about this prize can be found at http://www.woche-des-wissens.at/index.php.