2022 Grants

 

APSA is pleased to announce that it has awarded $42,806 in small and collaborative grants to MENA Workshops alumni in 2022.

Individual Professional Development Grants

  1. Aisha Al-Sarihi – $1,000
  2. Fatimah Saadi – $1,000
  3. Ferial Menaifi – $1,000
  4. Dheaya Alrousan – $1,000
  5. Sara Elizabeth Katona – $1,000
  6. Raed Ahmed – $973
  7. Nora Gueliane – $1,000
  8. Caglayan Baser – $1,000
  9. Dina Ibrahim Ali Mahmoud Hassan – $1,000
  10. Sarah Hebbouch – $1,000
  11. Maha Bouhlel ep Abid – $1,000
  12. Mahmood Alhosain – $1,000
  13. Ahmed Hamdon – $1,000
  14. Guilia Macario – $1,000
  15. Samar Abdelmageed – $465
  16. Narmin Butt – $1,000

Collaborative Grants

  1. Motasem Abuzaid (2021 alumnus) and Munqeth Othman Agha – $6,000
    The grant will support a workshop to be held in Istanbul that convenes researchers working on urban politics in Syria and the region, with the aim of presenting a novel conceptualization of the subject, where the level of analysis is micro in general, ranging from villages to cities. Themes such as local communities, social networks, urban space, and local governance will be discussed and integrated. The two-day program aims to encourage different scholars of urban politics in the Middle East to develop mini datasets that could answer questions at the local level, arrive at a more rigorous codification of such datasets, present short papers (POMEPS style 2500-word analytical papers) that deal with interrelated aspects of urban politics using these datasets and open the space for constructive feedback from senior scholars in the field.
  2. Mona Khneisser (2021 alumna) and Taraf Abu Hamdan – $6,000
    The grant will support fieldwork research on the political ecology of resource development in the Levant region, specifically hydro-dam projects in Lebanon and extractive development projects in the Jordanian Dadia. Upon completing the fieldwork, a virtual workshop on critical political ecology and the use of collaborative knowledge-generating methodologies in the MENA region will be conducted.
  3. Raed Ahmed (2022 alumnus) and Mara Revkin – $6,000
    The grant will support fieldwork research for a study that aims to explain variation in the social reintegration of returnees with perceived or actual ties to the Islamic State in Iraq. The grantees will organize a methodology training workshop for graduate students at Al-Iraqia University in Baghdad after completing the fieldwork.
  4. Fatimah Saadi (2022 alumna) and Yuree Noh – $6,000
  5. Parichehr Kazemi (2022 alumna) & Sarah ElMasry – $3,500