From 2010-2019 BRISMES offered scholarships supported by the Adbullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation. The purpose of these scholarships was to encourage more people to pursue postgraduate studies in disciplines related to the Middle East in British universities. Two scholarships of £2000 each were awarded each year. Recipients of the scholarships are listed below.
Kaoutar Ghilani (Univeristy of Oxford)
Working thesis title - Discourses of Failure: Arabisation and Nation-Building in Morocco.
Sneha Reddy (University of St Andrews)
Thesis title - 'North African and Indian soldiers in the First World War in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1923'.