2026 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce that Yasmine Hafez and and Danielle Andréa Krikorian have each been awarded a BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship. These awards, established in 2021, support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of early career scholars.
Yasmine Hafez
Yasmine Hafez's application presents a compelling and original project grounded in extensive fieldwork. Her use of crop cultivation to analyse infrastructure, governance, and gender offers a fresh and insightful contribution to political ecology and Middle East Studies and the impact of large modern infrastructure projects on fishing and farming livelihoods and Bedouin communities. Her project involves an investigative article on crops and regulation as well as a research-based exhibition in collaboration with a local entity, bringing together photographs, maps, oral histories and spoken poetry materials.
Danielle Andréa Krikorian
Danielle Andréa Krikorian provides a strong and well-structured project that makes an important contribution to the study of Arab visual culture and Palestine solidarity. Danielle's project focuses on the visual politics of Lebanon–Palestine solidarity and the role of political print culture in forming modern Arab political imaginaries, asking how poster aesthetics function as a language through which artists express solidarity, displacement, and anti-colonial resistance. The project aims to curate an open-access digital teaching and public resource offering a selection of posters and contextual materials with seminar prompts and a reading list, an innovative approach to promoting research, teaching, and public understanding of the Middle East.
Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted an application. We also extend our sincere thanks to our Prizes Committee who oversee all of the BRISMES prizes, awards and scholarships.
Applications for the next round will open in December 2026.