Cycle 2 Grantees

Cycles 1-3 of the Research Grants Program: 2013- 2016 

Selected competitively under the theme of “Inequality, Mobility and Development”, the projects under cycles 1-3 tackle important issues across the Arab region; and represent a wide range of expertise in diverse research fields and a mixture of senior and junior scholars. Topics and research sites range from water governance in Amman, Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey, urban development in Bahrain, peasant strategies in rural Egypt after the Revolution, academic international mobility and knowledge production in the case of Lebanon, and Pharmacovigilance in the Arab World. Most of the projects deploy intensive fieldwork- some in multiple sites- and several involve teams of two or more researchers.

Cycle Two of the Research Grants Program:

Selection Committee Members for RGP Cycle 2:

- Dr. Rami Daher: Associate Professor at the School of Architect and Built Environment at the German Jordanian University (GJU) and a practicing architect. He taught at the American University of Beirut's Department of Architecture & Design and at Jordan University of Science & Tech (holding position of Department Head between 2003 and 2006). Daher had earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Jordan (1988), a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota (1991), a PhD in Architecture from Texas A&M U (1995), and did his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2001). Daher is a co-founder and a principal of TURATH: Architecture & Urban Design Consultants (1999-present), and Metropolis: Cities Research Council (2008- Present), the research arm of TURATH.

- Dr. Ruba Salih: Reader in Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, UK. Salih is a social anthropologist by training, is a Reader in Gender Studies at SOAS. She has worked and published extensively on transnational migration, diaspora and multiculturalism from a gendered perspective. In the last two years she has been involved (together with Sophie Richter-Devroe, Exeter University) in a research project on the Palestinian refugees, for which she is conducting fieldwork in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.

- Dr. Samer Attalah: Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Business at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He previously taught at the Department of Economics at McGill University. He earned his MA and PhD in Economics from McGill University and a B.Sc. in Engineering from the American University in Cairo.

- Dr. Hassan Rachik: An anthropologist and Professor at the Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco. He is also visiting professor in several American, French and Arab universities. In his first researches he worked on the field of sacrificial rituals interpretation, from 1990 to 1992, and of social changes in rural environments, until 2000. Afterwards, he focused on the usage of ideologies (2003 – 2006), on the ideologization processes in religion and on the sociology of anthropological knowledge (2012). At the moment, he is working on common knowledge and its connections in political and religious ideologies. Among his publications: Le proche et le lointain. Un siècle d’anthropologie au Maroc (2012), L’islam au quotidien (2007) and Usages de l’identité amazighe au Maroc (2006).

- Dr. Abdelkader Latreche: Population Expert at the Permanent Population Committee of the Ministry of Developmental Planning and Statistics in Doha, Qatar. He previously worked at the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and has earned his PhD in Statistics, Demography and Sociology from Paris 1 University in Paris, France.