Small Grants Program

Selection Committee

Imen Yacoubi is a Tunisian researcher, translator, and associate professor of English Studies at the University of Jendouba, Tunisia. Yacoubi was a member in a number of projects across the Arab region, like The Trans-Maghreb Creative Writing Project, and the Young Arab Analysts Network International. She became a fellow at Syracuse University in 2011 and 2013. Since then, she has managed and participated in several projects with civil society related to women’s rights and civic education in Tunisia. Her research interests revolve around gender, arts, and culture.

Yasser Elsheshtawy is an independent writer, researcher, and curator. He was a Professor of Architecture at the United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, where, in addition to teaching, he ran the Urban Research Lab. He was appointed as curator for the UAE Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. He authored a series of books and publications including “Dubai: Behind an urban spectacle” (ranked no. 1 on Amazon under the ‘United Arab Emirates History’ category in September ’17). His blog dubaization has been hailed by The Guardian as one of the leading city blogs in the world. Elsheshtawy is currently working on a book about the Arab Gulf City titled: “Temporary Cities” and is currently serving as an Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Conservation at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Grantees Round 1

Pilot Study

Saadeddine Igamane

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Youth and Vulnerable Work in Morocco: The Case of Contractual Employment

Zakaria Ibrahimi

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Black Youth and Anti-Discrimination/Exclusion Mechanisms in Morocco

Abdelbaset Qaid

Nationality: Yemeni

Project Title: The Impact of Legislative Guarantees and Incentives on Young Entrepreneurs’ Projects in the Republic of Yemen

Nadine Beckdache

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Narrating Beirut through its Tenants’ Stories

Khaled Saleh

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Spatial Inequalities and the Enjoyment of Social and Cultural Rights: The Situation of Youth in the City of Zakoora

Taher Al-Labadi

Nationality: Syrian

Project Title: Pouvoirs et normes de l’aide internationale : Les politiques consacrées à la jeunesse réfugiée au Liban d’un point de vue local

Travel Grant

Nashwa Khedr

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: The (Un)Making of Citizens: Challenges to a Transformative Citizenship Education in the aftermath of the January 25th Egyptian Revolution (Paper to be presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Atlanta)

Organizing a Workshop

Deena Khalil

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Towards Strengthening MENA Regional Coordination on Spatial Inequality and the SDGs/NUA

Ahmed Direya

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Rasd Initiative for Palestinian Citizenship

Grantees Round 2

Pilot Study

Nadine Saidi

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Program

Rabeh Morrar

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Gender and Regional Inequalities in Life Satisfaction among Unemployed Youth: A Population-Based Questionnaire Study in Palestine

Mohammed Sultan

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Social Media and Arab Youth Identity Formation in the Information Age: Exploring the Future of Identity – A Pilot Field Study

Ahmed Hussein

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Ways of Life and Survival: Syrian Youth Refugees in Egypt and their Strategies for Social and Economic Adaptation

Travel Grant

Hana Shaltout

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Egyptian Feminist Performing Arts as Activism: An Analysis of Embodiment and Gender

Khouloud Saber Barakat

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: SOAS Summer School Course: Gender, Conflict & Middle East

Sarah El-Masry

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Gender, Repression, and Mobilization: Young Muslim Sisters and the Anti-Coup Movement

Organizing a Workshop

Malak Labib

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Center-Periphery Relationship: Authority, Development, and Spatial Justice

Insaf Ben Othmane Hamrouni

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: Inclusive Urban Public Spaces Workshop

Dissemination Event

Karim-Yassin Goessinger

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Disseminating a bi-lingual, edited volume on the emergence of Pigeon Towers

Grantees Round 3

Pilot Study

Ben Ahmed Hougua

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: La jeune paysannerie dans le moyen Atlas oriental au Maroc : Précarité, sentiments d’injustice et résistance mélancolique

Omaima Anwar

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Atheism among Arab Youth: Intellectual Trend or Structural Phenomenon? – Egypt as a Case Study

Yaser Emad

Nationality: Yemeni

Project Title: Tourism as a University Major and its Role in Achieving Spatial Justice: A Pilot Study

Faisal Mahbob

Nationality: Yemeni

Project Title: Obstacles to Youth’s Political Empowerment in the Republic of Yemen: A Study of Legislations and Policies

Travel Grant

Petra Samaha

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Decoding an Urban Myth: An Inquiry into the Socio-Economics of Van Number 4 in Beirut (Paper to be presented at the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference, London, England)

Abdelghani Al-Hawri

Nationality: Yemeni

Project Title: Inequality in the Distribution of Educational Services in Sanaa and its Effects on High School Students (Paper to be presented at the First International Conference on Educational and Social Sciences, November 3-5, 2017, Bandirma, Turkey

Zine El-Abiddine Fares

Nationality: Algerian

Project Title: Facebook Depression: Field Study of a Sample of Algerian Youth (Paper to be presented at the 2^nd Scientific Conference on Arab Societies and Social Networks in a Changing World, October 31, 2017-November 2, 2017, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman)

Tarik Harroud

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: From an Interventionist Approach to a Local Inclusionary Approach to Heritage Restoration (Paper to be presented at the Scientific Symposium of the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly, New Delhi, India)

Organizing a Workshop

Jawida Mansour

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Role of Community Youth in Protecting Cultural Heritage

Mohamed Amer

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Urban Architectural Heritage and Social Interaction

Grantees Round 4

Pilot Study

Azzeddine El-Faraa

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: The Role of Urban Spatial Inequality in the Emergence of Protest Movements

Mohammed Issa

Nationality: Sudanese

Project Title: Perceived and Real Inequalities between Ethnic Groups and their Role in Intensifying the Conflict in Sudan: Field Study of Selected Sudanese Tribes

Fadila Hannouf

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: The Historic Area in Beddawi: Urban Spatial Inequality’s Effect and the Means to Promote Youth’s Role

Mahmoud Mohamed

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Developing Local Wealth and Fighting Spatial Exclusion: Pilot Study of a Town in Egypt’s Said

Kaouther Douzi

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: Restrooms as an Introduction to Studying Marginalization in Public Spaces: A Socio-Anthropological Study of Tunis

Manar Younis

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: What are the psycho-social motivations behind Palestinian women’s work in Israeli settlements? A pilot study in Aghwar

Travel Grant

Rania Nasr Eldin

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Urban Livability Dimensions of the New Egyptian Cities

Imad El Hamma

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Migrant Remittances and Economic growth: The role of Financial Development & Institutions

Organizing a Workshop

Tamer Rashed

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Scientific and Academic Writing

Youssef Zegar

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: How to Study the Political and Cultural Uses of Public Spaces among Youth in Urban Settings

Yasmin Bayoumi

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Craft

Dissemination Event

Mohamed Oubenal

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Young Artists’ Amazigh Music in Hoceima and Agadir

Selection Committee

Abdullah Al-Kafri is the Executive Director of Ettijahat – Independent Culture.  A playwright and cultural activist, Abdullah works as a trainer in various cultural fields with organizations including Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Since 2015, he has been a member of the artistic committee of Sundance Institute’s MENA Theatre Lab, and is a regular participant at conferences and forums on culture and art. He has also collaborated with art organizations such as Lift and The Royal Court in the UK and the Lark in the US.

Imen Yacoubi is a Tunisian researcher, translator, and associate professor of English Studies at the University of Jendouba, Tunisia. Yacoubi was a member in a number of projects across the Arab region, like The Trans-Maghreb Creative Writing Project, and the Young Arab Analysts Network International. She became a fellow at Syracuse University in 2011 and 2013. Since then, she has managed and participated in several projects with civil society related to women’s rights and civic education in Tunisia. Her research interests revolve around gender, arts, and culture.

Mona Khechen is a Lebanese urban planning and development expert with extensive experience as a practitioner in developing and post-conflict country contexts, working mainly on cultural heritage, urban policy-oriented research, and strategic planning. She is a regular consultant on urban development to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the United Nations. She also serves as an occasional lecturer at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She received her Doctorate in Design from Harvard University, Masters in Planning from the Development Planning Unit at University College London, and a Bachelors of Architecture from AUB.

Grantees Round 1

Pilot Study

Abderrahman Fadili

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Leadership among University Students and its Forms of Practice: Student Leadership at Ibn Zahr University as a Case Study

Alamira Samah Saleh

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: A New Action in a New Communication Field? The Egyptian Public Space between Government Institutions and Dynamics of Resistance

Bouchta Ezziani

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Youth Health Education and Health Literacy: A Sociological Study of the Information Sources of Moroccan Vocational Secondary School Students

El-Hafed Nouini

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Political and Economic Empowerment of Youth between Rural and Urban Areas in the Arab Region: Morocco as a Case Study

Fidae El-Hassouni

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Effect of Social Entrepreneurship on Status and Social Representations among Young Village Women in Morocco

Nay El-Rahi

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: From the Campus to the Street: Understanding Student Activism and Institutional Responses to Sexual Harassment in Lebanese Universities

Sabreen Aljinawi

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Community Responsibility of the Palestinian Private Sector and Spatial Justice in the Support of Youth Programs: The West Bank as a Case Study

Sihem Drissi

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: The Youth amid Democratic Transformations

Travel Grant

Dina Batshoun

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: Experiences of Access to Higher Education for Gazan Refugee Youth in Jordan: Exploring Perceptions (Paper to be presented at the 17th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM))

Kelthoum Bibimoune

Nationality: Algerian

Project Title: Algerian Family Life “Online” and “Selfie Culture” from the Social Exposition Expectations to the Challenges of Digitalization

Nayera Soliman

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: One Subject, Various Understandings: Comparative Study of Students’ Perceptions of Citizenship in Four Types of School in the Post-Revolutionary Egypt at 62nd annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society

Organizing a Workshop

Shafiya Naji

Nationality: Yemeni

Project Title: The Impact of Social Customs and Traditions on Young Women’s Political Empowerment

Shaimaa Mohamed

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Social Research and Evidence-Based Development Praxis for Young Researchers and Youth Development Practitioners

Grantees Round 2

Pilot Study

Hatem Jemmali

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: Inequality of Opportunity for Higher Education among Youth in Tunisia: A Pilot Study

Mohammad Awwad

Nationality: Syrian

Project Title: INGO Programs to Empower Syrian Youth in Rural Areas: Field Assessment of the Community Development Program in Hama

Mouloud Amghar

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Militant Uses of Public Space: A Sociological Study of Resistance Strategies through the Use of Public Space in Mohammed V Avenue, Morocco

Samar Al-Hajj

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Youth Road Traffic Injury: A Prospective Hospital-based Pilot Surveillance Study

Mariam Benalioua

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Youth of the Periphery: Towards another Model of Political Engagement? The Case of the Social Movement “Al Hiark Chaabi” in Al-Hoceima

Zouhir Bahammou

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Young Women against Poverty, Stigma and the Absence of Men in Morocco: A Qualitative Approach

Mohammed Alhaffi

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Civil and Voting Awareness of New Voters (Youth) in Palestine

Travel Grant

Dina Abdel Rahman

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Egyptian Female Muslim Youth into the Mainstream (Paper to be presented at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES))

Dima Smaira

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Narrating the Everyday in Deeply Divided Societies: Stories of Place, Stories of Conflict, Stories of Well-Being

Mohamed Salman

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: A Co-Operative Enquiry into the Meanings and Strategies of Enabling Spaces for Youth Activism: The Case of ‘Mesaha’ in Cairo, Egypt

Sarah Wahby

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Employment in Egypt and Tunisia

Yassine Aoussar

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Role of Land Policies in Restructuring Urban Peripheries in Casablanca: The Case of Sidi Mimoun

Bilal Salameh

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: The Social Actor: A Critical Appraisal of the Palestinian Context and Its Challenges

Tarik Ghodbani

Nationality: Algerian

Project Title: L’analyse des interactions homme – société – nature a montré

Anaheed Al-Hardan

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Colonial Critique, the Sociological Canon and Contemporary Sociology

Hanan Nazier

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Gender Differences in Time Allocation and Time Poverty: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt and Tunisia

Rabeh Morrar

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Macro Forecasting of National Health Expenditure in Palestine: Economic Analysis

Aboullouz Abdelhkim

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Le glissement du new Salafisme vers le phénomène associatif au Maroc

Mohamed Saadi

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الحراك الشعبي بالريف شمال المغرب والذي انطلق منذ أكثر من سنة ونصف مع مقتل محسن فكري في شاحنة قمامة

Rachid Jarmouni

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: The Religious media and the sociology of religious transformations: Moroccan youths as a case study

Ahmed Al-Kubaisi

Nationality: Iraqi

Project Title: The dynamics of sustainable urban development in the organization of future cities

Organizing a Workshop

Myra El Mir

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Engaging Young Adults in Research through Graphic Novels (Book optioned by Penguin-Random House)

Adham Tbeil

Nationality: Palestinian

Type of Grant: Organizing a Workshop | Project Title: The Impact of Israeli Practices on Health Services in Jerusalem

Grantees Round 3

Pilot Study

Amira El-Naggare

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Chosen Celibacy: Women’s Reluctance to Get Married in the Arab World: The Case of Egypt and Morocco

Jabrane Amaghouss

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Why Young Women Drop out of University: Empirical Investigation (Moroccan Students)

Saadeddine Igamane

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Young Entrepreneurs in Morocco and Vulnerability: The Other Side of Entrepreneurship

Yasmeen Qi’dan

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Movement Policy in Ramallah: A Study of the Palestinian Contemporary Space and Landscape

Yassine Yassni

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Youth from Poor Neighborhoods and Forms of Resistance against Discrimination and Stigmatization in Morocco: The Youth of the Safihi Neighborhood

Islam Abdel Magid

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Spatial Inequality: How Do We Understand Space with Respect to Inequality?

Mustapha Azaitraoui

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Young Men and Women in the Waste Management System in Morocco: The Case of Beni Mellal-Khenifra

Nizar Hassan

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: What Makes Lebanon’s Youth Activists? The Case of LiHaqqi

Soufiane Chinig

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Social Mixing in the City of Salé: Between Urban Planning and Housing: How Do Residents Restructure a City?

Chaymae Benfares

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: The Youth in Small Cities and the Strategies to Fight Poverty and Marginalization

Travel Grant

Brahim Alhiani

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Food System and Women Workers in Moroccan Agri-Alimentary Enterprises: A Sociological View

Salim Abuthaher

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: The Geopolitics of Spatiality

Youness Benmouro

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Trans-Border Experience and Immigration Spaces: Transnational Migration of Sub-Saharan Africa and Public Spaces Uses: The Case of Rabat

Alain Daou

Nationality: Lebanese

Workshop Title: Teaching & Learning Studio Educators Workshop

Chahir Zaki

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Global Value Chains and Business Environment: Which Factors Do Really Matter?

Redouane Lemkhinek

Nationality: Algerian         

Project Title: The Role of Local Governance in Fighting Administrative Corruption in Local Elected Councils in Algeria

Abedlouahab Djennad

Nationality: Algerian         

Project Title: تصميم التعليم: خطوة لضمان جودة التدريس – تصميم برنامج تعليمي إلكتروني وأثره على التحصيل الدراسي

Mohssin Nadoui

Nationality: Moroccan         

Project Title: تراجع سيادة الدول في ظل التحولات الدولية

Sahera Bleibleh

Nationality: Palestinian          

Project Title: Rethinking Community Planningand Resilience in Times of Emergency in Areas of Conflict

Amal Jmaii

Nationality: Tunisian          

Project Title: The Nexus of Migration, Employment and Regional Inequality Reduction in Tunisia: An Empirical Analysis

Organizing a Workshop

Nour El-Safoury & Heba Mahmoud

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Working in Partnership: Young People and Arts and Culture Organizations in Downtown Cairo

Duha Maari

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: The Role of Civic Education Curricula in Promoting Civic Participation among Palestinian Youth

Driss Fakhour

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Supporting Youth Participation in Local Governance

Abdulbaset Qaid

Nationality: Yemeni

Project Title: Evaluation of Guarantees and Incentives Provided to Young Entrepreneurs in the Republic of Yemen

Dissemination Event

Abir Saksouk

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Thinking Housing: The First Competition for Affordable Housing Alternatives in Beirut

Selection Committee

Abdullah Al-Kafri is the Executive Director of Ettijahat – Independent Culture.  A playwright and cultural activist, Abdullah works as a trainer in various cultural fields with organizations including Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Since 2015, he has been a member of the artistic committee of Sundance Institute’s MENA Theatre Lab, and is a regular participant at conferences and forums on culture and art. He has also collaborated with art organizations such as Lift and The Royal Court in the UK and the Lark in the US.

Lahcen Ameziane received his PhD in Sociology in December 2005 from the University of Mohammed Bin Abdullah in Fez in Morocco. His dissertation focused on local communities and development. He co-founded and served as an associate researcher in the Laboratory for Sociological and Psychological Research and Studies (LAREPS) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Dhar El-Mehraz in Fez. He previously worked as a consultant on foreign interests at the Ministry of Housing and Construction, and as a senior consultant at Omrane-Meknes (formerly known as the Lodging and Construction Company). He has been teaching Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Rabat since September 2009. He is currently an active member of the Sociological and Anthropological Research team (ERSA). In addition to a book on the political behavior of the local elite in Morocco, hepublished several articles in international and Moroccan journals. He also currently coordinates the Master’s Program in Sociological Transformations and Social Movements at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Rabat, which are also related to his current research in the fields of urban sociology, the sociology of organizations and social change.

Lina Abou-Habib is the Executive Director of Women’s Learning Partnership, and Executive Director of the Collective for Research and Training on Development–Action (CRTD-A), which promotes women’s leadership, political participation, and citizenship and economic rights in Lebanon and the MENA region. Abou-Habib is a co-founder and coordinator of the Machreq/Maghreb Gender Linking and Information Project. She has collaborated with a number of regional and international agencies, as well as public institutions, in mainstreaming gender in development policies and practices and in building capacities for gender mainstreaming. She is a former chair of the board of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), and she currently is a MENA advisor for the Global Fund for Women and on the editorial board of Oxfam’s journal, Gender and Development. Abou-Habib is a PhD candidate at the Auckland University of Technology. Her interest areas include action-oriented research on the impact of the denial of citizenship rights to women in MENA countries, active citizenship and gendered social entitlements in Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt, and topics related to women and their political participation, invisible care work, economic contribution in rural communities and access to markets, faith-based organizations, migrant women, and women in post-war Lebanon.

Grantees Round 1

Pilot Study

Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: The Camp/Cemetery: The Politics of Life and Death in Palestinian Camps

Farida Naceur

Nationality: Algerian

Project Title: The Impact of the Informal Sector in Urban Cities in Algeria: The Case of the Informal Urban Sector in Medium-Sized Cities

Fouad Ghorbali

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: Clandestine Sex Workers in the City: An Anthropological Study of the Urban Uses of Public Spaces in Tunis by Clandestine Sex Workers

Nouran El-Marsafy

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: The Notion of Urban Market District and People’s Right to Heritage

Hajar Bouzid

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Growing Old on the Margins: A Sociological Study of the Elderly’s Strategies to Fight Spatial Marginalization: Takaddoum Neighborhood as a Case Study

Hicham Ganich

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Urban Life and the Emergence of Sub-Identities: A Preliminary Sociological Study of the Cultural Alternatives among Young Urban Women: Rabat as a Case Study

Youssef Soubai

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Youth Perceptions of Spatial Culture and Justice: Guelmim as a Case Study

Zeinab Al-Baqary

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Pets in the City as a Prelude to Studying Spatial Inequality in the Modern City: A Socio-Anthropological Study of Cairo

Sofiane Bouhdiba

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: Towards Improved Political Participation of Young Women in the Arab World: A Comparative Study between Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan

Nadia Elatfani

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: New Cities in Morocco and Residents’ Strategies to Fight Socio-Spatial Marginalization: Tamesna as a Case Study

Travel Grant

Nashwa Khedr

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Teaching for Social Justice in ESD Programs:  A Case Study from Egypt

Sahera Bleibleh

Nationality: Emirati

Project Title: T Rebuilding the Camp: Narratives of Refugees’ Everyday Place

Suliman Abusalama

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: The Legal Framework of the Electronic Public Utility in Palestine

Organizing a Workshop

Areej Hamdan

Nationality: Palestinian

Type of Grant: Organizing a Workshop

Project Title: Young Palestinian Women’s Participation in Civil Life: The Right to Forming Non-Profit Civil Society Organizations

Rand El-Hajj Hasan

Nationality: Jordanian

Type of Grant: Organizing a Workshop

Project Title: Anthropological and Architectural Mapping of Semi-Public Spaces

Dissemination Event

Salma Belkebir

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Socio-Spatial Effects of Metropolization and Socio-Spatial Inequality in the City of Ain El-Aouda, Morocco

Monica Basbous

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Planning the City through Play: Informal Making of Communal Football Fields in Beirut’s Neighborhoods

Grantees Round 2

Pilot Study

Faten Mbarek

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: التعبيرات الشبابية والديمقراطية الثقافية. دراسة مقارنة بين تونس المغرب لموسيقات الشارع في ما بعد 2011

Houda Grimli

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الثقافة الرقمية ورهان الهوية الدينية عند الشباب المغربي

Oumar El Hamdani

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: شباب الأحياء العشوائية وأشكال التفاوض على استعمال المجال العمومي:  مدينة الرباط نموذجا

Abdeslam El fakir

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: المعيش اليومي لشباب الهامش، سياسة الشارع واستراتيجيات المقاومة

Sahar Abdel Khalek

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: الأسواق الأسبوعية في الريف المصري: دراسة في اللاحركات الاجتماعية

Youness Loukili

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الشباب واللامساواة الاجتماعية في مدينة الدار البيضاء: أشكال إدراك الهامش والتعبير عنه في الشبكات الاجتماعية

Mahmoud Abdalel

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: تأثير المسجد في تشكيل الوعي السياسي للشباب الجامعي: دراسة ميدانية على عينة من الشباب في جامعات القاهرة، وسوهاج، والأزهر

Zaimen Fouad

Nationality: Algerian

Project Title: البحارة الصيادين الشباب بين التهميش والاندماج، مقاربة سوسيو-اقتصادية:  دراسة حالة مدينة جيجل بالجزائر

Hind Siyouri

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Les injustices du sexisme au bled de l’armoise et du vent La jeune épouse entre la victimisation et la réplique agressive

Kaouther Douzi

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: الحانات كمدخل لدراسة التهميش في المدينة العربية: دراسة أنثرو- سوسيولوجية في مدينة القاهرة

Azzeddine El Faraa

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الحُدود كمدخلٍ لتفسير اللاّمساواة من منظُورٍ عابرٍ للحُدود

Travel Grant

Hala Makhlouf

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures

Rozana Darwich

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: 2019 AESOP Annual Congress in Italy

Sandra Frem

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism 2019- The Collective City

Brahim Alhiani

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: Visual Imperatives/ Visual Uncertainties

Rima Majed

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Conceptualizing Sectarianism(s): Structures and Changes in Modern Lebanon

Shereen Abouelnaga

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: The Question of Agency in African Studies

Organizing a Workshop

Perla Issa

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Research training workshop I

Grantees Round 3

Pilot Study

Amal El Hattab

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: ماذا يعني أن تكون شابا في المغرب؟ تمثلات الشباب لأدوارهم في عملية التغيير الاجتماعي والسياسي ما بعد

El Houcine Talbioui

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الشباب وأشكال التهميش الثقافي و اللامساواة المكانية بمدينة الدارالبيضاء الشباب ممارسي “فن الشارع” بساحة الأمم المتحدة (أنموذجا)

Hassan Hassan

Nationality: Somali

Project Title: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities in Youth Civic Engagement

Fidae El Hassouni

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الشباب والعمل بالتعاونيات النسوية بالمغرب : أنماط التدبير والحوكمة

Hicham Seghiri

Nationality: Algerian

Project Title: Disparités socio-spatiales dans l’accès à l’eau : cas de l’agglomération de Tlemcen en Algérie

Noha Atef

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: المواطنين الصحافيين العرب وسطاء لتوعية الشباب والمراهقين

Omar Ahmed

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Open space justice and traffic-permeability dialogue in Historic Cairo

Omnia Khalil

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Dispossession and Violence shaping Urban Subjectivities in Cairo

Ahmed Abouelella

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: ثورة 25 يناير وإحياء الحراك نحو العودة للنوبة القديمة – دراسة استطلاعية للشباب النوبي

Alia Okasha

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: دراسة استطلاعية لجدوى إقامة حديقة تاريخ علوم طبيعية بيئية، في حلوان

Mohammed El Fatehy

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الشباب والمجال العمومي بالوسط الحضري المغربي : مُقاربة سوسيو-أنثروبولوجية لأشكال مُقاومة اللاّمساواة المكانية المدينيّة

Heba Mousa

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Justice in provision of bicycle infrastructure in Egypt and bicycle usage

Travel Grant

Soha Mneimneh

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: A Segment of Beirut’s Real-estate Machine: Housing Production and Exchange in Tariq el-Jdide (1996-2018)

Mennatullah Hendawy

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Knowledge as Power: Communication/Visualization of Urban Planning in a Mediatized Age yet Centralized Context. Towards Spatial-Social-Visual Justice in Egypt

Hatem Jemmali

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: Dynamic Impacts of Climate Changes and Agricultural Sustainability on Food-Water Poverty in a Panel of Selected MENA Countries

Chiheb Yahyaoui

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title:  الحكم المحلّي وخصوصية الفاعل التنموي المحلّي قراءة سوسيوتنموية في قانون الحكم المحلي 2018 تونس

Hussam Hussein

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: Water politics in Jordan: unpacking discourses, power, and geopolitical dynamics

Organizing a Workshop

Rana Hassan

Nationality: Lebanese

Project Title: Organizing horizontally: challenges and tools for non-hierarchical groups

Deyala Altarawneh

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: Spatial Justice and Youth Engagement Through Civic Society Initiatives

Mohamed Darouich

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: الباحثين الشباب بمنطقة سوس العالمة بالمغرب، بين متطلبات البحث العلمي والإكراهات المادية وظروف العيش الكريم

Heba Elhanafy

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: Placemaking For Alexandria’s Waterfront

Mohamed Ezz

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: أرشفة شبرا خلال الثمانية عشر يومًا

Mai Amer

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: ورشة الترجمة والكتابة – سكة معارف

Ghosoun Ismail

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: إن فاتك الميري اتمرمغ في ترابه؟

Selection Committee

Jamil Mouawad is a Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative in charge of the independent professional associations project in the Arab world. He is also a lecturer in politics at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches courses in Public Policy, Political Science and Lebanese politics. He holds a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Jamil is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies, and the coordinator of the Ethics in Social sciences project initiated by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). His research interests in state-society relations span the subfields of comparative politics and political economy. He has several scientific publications and is a regular commentator on Lebanese politics.

Jihad Makhoul is a professor at the Department of Health Promotion and Community Health. HEr professional life has evolved from much reflection on her years of experience in non-governmental agency work in community health and development in Lebanon during the wartime and in some parts of the Arab region, as well as from graduate level teaching. This has led her to develop an interest and work closely on social and structural determinants of health, social exclusion, research ethics, public health ethics and community engaging research. She has adopted and adapted multi-method research approaches and built cross-disciplinary and cross-country collaborations through membership in international professional networks. She has recently become interested in the commercial determinants of health and the influence of corporate funding on humanitarian assistance. Her publications are in these areas and include peer review articles as well as book chapters.

Rima Nakkash is a Professor in the Global and Community Health Department. Nakkash is a leading international scholar in tobacco control research in prevention and policy evaluation. She has published on community based participatory research initiatives as well as process, and implementation research particularly with youth and disadvantaged populations with a focus on mental health promotion. She is interested in civic and citizen engagement in health policy making, translation of evidence-based public health to inform interventions and policy, and advocacy for health. Her most recent research interests include research on research ethics and exploring interactions and conflict of interest between corporations and public health.  She co-coordinates a global network on Governance on Ethics and Conflict and interest in Public Health (GECI-PH). She is a strong tobacco control advocate at national, regional, and international levels and believes in the power of partnerships and coalitions. In partnership with civil society and media, she had a major role in the passage of the most comprehensive tobacco control law while in Lebanon in 2011. In 2013, she was granted the international WHO World No Tobacco Day Award by Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO Director at that time.

Before coming to Mason, Nakkash was a tenured Associate Professor at the Health Promotion and Community Health Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the American University of Beirut. She was the coordinator of the AUB Tobacco Control research group, co-director the WHO FCTC waterpipe tobacco smoking knowledge hub, Associate Director of the Knowledge to Policy Center, and Director of the Public Health Education Office.

Samer Ghamroun earned his PhD in legal sociology from the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan, Paris, on the subject of judicial competition between juvenile and Sharia judges in Lebanon, around the protection of children’s and women’s rights. He is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Saint Joseph University of Beirut, where he teaches legal sociology, legal history, and constitutional law, among other courses. He is also a senior researcher and a scientific editor with the Legal Agenda team in Beirut.

Grantees

Fieldwork

Faten Mbarek

Nationality: Tunisian

Project Title: البحث الميداني وموازين القو ة في المجتمع

Mai Abu Moghli

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: The Ethics of Conducting Research in Palestine: Between Institutionalization and the Power of Practice

Reflection Paper

Fouzia Borj

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: ما وراء احترام المشاركين في البحث الميداني: متطلبات بناء علاقات أخلاقية في ظروف النزاع

Noha Atef

Nationality: Egyptian

Project Title: التعامل الأخلاقي مع اشكاليات علاقات القوة بين الباحث والمشارك في المقابلات الُمعمقة مع المراهقين والشباب

Selection Committee

Jamil Mouawad is a Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative in charge of the independent professional associations project in the Arab world. He is also a lecturer in politics at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches courses in Public Policy, Political Science and Lebanese politics. He holds a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Jamil is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies, and the coordinator of the Ethics in Social sciences project initiated by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). His research interests in state-society relations span the subfields of comparative politics and political economy. He has several scientific publications and is a regular commentator on Lebanese politics.

Lamia Moghnieh is a EUME fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and a former ACSS postdoctoral fellow. Her book project “Psychiatry in Lebanon from the 19th to the 21th century: Madness, Violence and Society” traces the cultural authority of modern psychiatry in Lebanon, through primary analysis of archival documents from the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders (popularly known as Asfuriyeh hospital) and ethnographic research on contemporary psychiatric practices.

Samer Ghamroun earned his PhD in legal sociology from the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan, Paris, on the subject of judicial competition between juvenile and Sharia judges in Lebanon, around the protection of children’s and women’s rights. He is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Saint Joseph University of Beirut, where he teaches legal sociology, legal history, and constitutional law, among other courses. He is also a senior researcher and a scientific editor with the Legal Agenda team in Beirut.

Grantees

Fieldwork

Mouloud Amghar

Nationality: Moroccan

Project Title: رد الجميل: من المسؤلية العلمية للباحثين إلى المسؤولية الاجتماعية

Selection Committee

Islah Jad is an associate professor and lecturer on gender issues and politics at the Institute of Women’s Studies and the Institute of Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, which she directed from 2008 to 2013 and also Acting Director for the year 2021. She is a founding member of the Master’s Program in Women’s Studies and the first PhD program in social sciences at Birzeit University. She is the author of several books and academic articles that dealt with the role of women in politics, Palestinian women, the relationship between them, Islam, and non-governmental organizations. Jad is also a gender advisor at the United Nations Development Program and has co-authored the United Nations Development Report on Women’s Empowerment, as well as three other books. She obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2004.

Jamil Mouawad is a Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative in charge of the independent professional associations project in the Arab world. He is also a lecturer in politics at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches courses in Public Policy, Political Science and Lebanese politics. He holds a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Jamil is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies, and the coordinator of the Ethics in Social sciences project initiated by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). His research interests in state-society relations span the subfields of comparative politics and political economy. He has several scientific publications and is a regular commentator on Lebanese politics.

Mai Abu Moghli is a senior researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) and a Co-PI on the British academy bilateral chair in education in conflict at the University of Cambridge and CLS. Mai works with teachers in Lebanon and her research focuses on teachers’ experiences in conflict and contexts of mass displacement, decolonizing higher education and teachers’ activism.

Grantees

Institutions

Jerusalem Center for Women

Luna Orikat

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: تطوير بروتوكولات اخلاقيات البحث النسوي

The Royal Scientific Society

Yara Shaban

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: The road to ethical social science research: A blueprint for establishing an Institutional Review Board at the Royal Scientific Society

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Omar Khabour

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: Development of an online training module entitled “Publishing using Open-Access Journals: How to avoid predatory ones”

Al-Quds University

Munir Nusaibah (Principal Investigator) & Ahmad Amara (Co-Investigator)

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: أخلاقيات البحث العلمي- الأبحاث القانونية ومتعددة المناهج

Insaniyyat-Society of Palestinian Anthropologists

Laura Adwan (Principal Investigator) & Dina Zbbeidy (Co-Investigator)

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Insaniyyat’s Code of Ethics for Ethnographic Research

An Najah National University

Samah Saleh (Principal Investigator) & Fayez Mahamid (Co-Investigator)

Nationality: Palestinian & Dutch

Project Title: تعزيز ثقافة اخلاقيات البحث العلمي في جامعة النجاح

Islah Jad is an associate professor and lecturer on gender issues and politics at the Institute of Women’s Studies and the Institute of Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, which she directed from 2008 to 2013 and also Acting Director for the year 2021. She is a founding member of the Master’s Program in Women’s Studies and the first PhD program in social sciences at Birzeit University. She is the author of several books and academic articles that dealt with the role of women in politics, Palestinian women, the relationship between them, Islam, and non-governmental organizations. Jad is also a gender advisor at the United Nations Development Program and has co-authored the United Nations Development Report on Women’s Empowerment, as well as three other books. She obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2004.