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Funder name: British Society of Middle Eastern Studies

Correspondant:
Correspondant title:
Address: Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies University of Durham Elvet Hill Road
Durham
DH1 3TU
Country: UK
Telephone: 0191 33 45179
E-mail: administrator@brismes.org
Website: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/home
Funding objective / Areas of interest: To encourage more people to pursue postgraduate studies in disciplines related to the Middle East in British universities.
Type of funding available: Scholarships of one academic year:
The AbdullahAl-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation / BRISMES Scholarships (postgradute)
Beneficiary type:
Eligibility criteria: To apply applicants must fulfil the following conditions:
– be registered at any UK university
– be a paid-up member of BRISMES (Student membership suffices) but the time you apply
Exclusions / restrictions:
Example grants: Previous recipients:
2019

Discourses of Failure: Arabisation and Nation-Building in Morocco.
Kaoutar Ghilani (University of Oxford)

Thesis title – ‘North African and Indian soldiers in the First World War in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1923’.
Sneha Reddy (University of St Andrews)

2018

Intellectual Labour in Times of Change: Understanding the Politics of Critique in the Syrian Revolutionary Press (2011-2017)
Adélie Chevée (SOAS)

Socio-legal history of the Palestinian community in Jerusalem during the Jordanian rule period (1948–1967), and during the first decade of the Israeli occupation (1967–1977)
Haneen Naamneh (LSE)

2017

What is an ‘Oriental’ Carpet: the Euro-American ideology of the rugs of South, Central and West Asia since 1840
Dorothy Armstrong (Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Ageing and health care in times of crisis: whose vulnerability counts? The case of Syrian refugees in Jordan.
Sigrid Lupieri (University of Cambridge)

2016

The Medicalisation of Consanguineous Marriage in Contemporary Turkey
Maria Kramer

Smugglers and States – A Political Economy of Illegal Trade in the Middle East and North Africa
Max Gallen

2015

The Politics of Bread: Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Authoritarian Persistence in Contemporary Jordan and Morocco
José Ciro Martínez (University of Cambridge)

Sulaymān al-Ghazzī: A Voice of Resistance in a Time of Religious Persecution?
Rosemary Maxton (University of Cambridge)
Application guidelines: Applications to be submitted by March each year.
– Submit an application of 600 – 1000 words, by E-mail to the BRISMES research committee This should include a sketch of the overall research topic, and a description of the purpose for which the grant would be used

– Obtain a brief supporting statement from their supervisor.
Trustees:
Additional information:
Information sources: BRISMES website

Areas of Interest

General

Beneficial Areas

Regions

Countries:
UK

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