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The AbdullahAl-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation / BRISMES Scholarships

The purpose of the scholarships is to encourage more people to pursue postgraduate studies in disciplines related to the Middle East in British universities. The scholarships will be for one academic year. The value of each scholarship will be £2,000. Two scholarships will be awarded.

Applications should be made to the BRISMES Administrative office.  The deadline for the latest round has been extended to 30th April 2013. To qualify 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
  • 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

The BRISMES research committee will recommend to the Abdullah Al Mubarak Al Sabah Foundation which applications merit an award. The announcement of the award will be made in June and published in the July edition of the BRISMES newsletter.

Applications should be sent to:

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies

Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Durham University
Al-Qasimi Building
Elvet Hill Road
Durham
DH1 3TU.

Tel: 0191 33 45179.
Fax: 0191 33 45661.
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2012 RECIPIENTS

Mike Farquahr

The social history and cultural politics of transnational circuits of Muslim scholars and students who for centuries have travelled from around the world to teach and undertake religious studies in the Hijaz.

and

Denis Volkov

Orientalist Scholarship and Foreign Policy in late Tsarist

Russia and the early USSR: Russian/Soviet 'Iranology' and Russo-Iranian relations 1900-1941



2011 RECIPIENTS

Sertac Sehlikoglu-Karakas

Agency, Enjoyment and Desire in Daily Lives of Pious Muslim women: Veiled Customers of Women-Only Gyms in Istanbul

and

Sharri Plonski

How a subjugated and marginalized ethno-national minority impacts inequitable structures and power relations in an ethnically exclusive state

2010 RECIPIENTS:

Marwa Sharafeddin who is at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in the Law Faculty at Oxford University.  Her thesis title is: ‘Personal Status Law reform in Egypt: women’s rights NGOs navigating between Islamic law and international human rights law’. Matthias Determann who is a PhD student in History at SOAS. The title of his research project is ‘Contemporary Historiography in Saudi Arabia’.