2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University between 1 January and 30 September 2024. This prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986.
We received 12 amazing submissions and we would like to congratulate our prize winners and thank everyone who submitted their dissertations for consideration. We would also like to recognise and thank our incredible Prizes Committee and external reviewers for the time and effort they have dedicated to this prize.
Joint Winners
- Asma Abdi (University of Exeter)
Towards a Decolonial Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Social Reproduction, Labour and Survival in Iran
- Sara Abdel Ghany (University of Warwick)
The Making and Unmaking of Resistance through Narratives of Violence: The Case of "Revolutionary" Egypt
Joint Runners Up
- Eirik Kvindesland (University of Oxford)
On Islands of Oil: Jews and Zionism in the Persian Gulf, 1880-1948
- Kristine Sheets (University of Exeter)
Third-Generation Voices: Memory and Identity in the Palestinian Diaspora