Early Career Fellows (2018-2019)
The Early Career Fellows Program, previously known as Postdoctoral Fellowships Program, is a 12-month fellowship program aimed at enabling young researchers, up to three years out of the PhD, to pursue their research and publishing plans, become part of Arab research networks and plan a research career in the Arab region.
Fellowships are awarded competitively to junior scholars who are citizens or nationals of an Arab country and show high quality academic credentials and promise. The ACSS research fellow should be affiliated with a research institution in the Arab region during the period of the fellowship and should have an academic mentor at this institution.
2018-2019 Early Career Fellows
Below are the fellows in the 2018-2019 Cycle of the Early Career Fellows Program.
Mabrouk Boutagouga
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC)
Project Title: Atlas of Horses and Fantasia in Algeria
Country: Algeria
Ben Ahmed Hougua
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Center for Human and Social Research and Studies
Project Title: The Demographic and Socio-Economic Bases for Collective Anger: A Longitudinal Approach to the Protests in Marocco
Country: Morocco
Ghia Osseiran
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Center for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University
Project Title: Higher Education Expansion and Graduate Skills in Lebanon: Overqualification and its Discontents
Country: Lebanon
Dina El-Sharnouby
Postdoctoral Affiliation: American University in Cairo
Project Title: “Time out of Time”- New Social Movements and their Political Imaginaries: The Case of Revolutionary Youth in Egypt
Country: Egypt
Zina Sawaf
Postdoctoral Affiliation: American University of Beirut
Project Title: Encountering the State: Women and Intimate Lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Country: Lebanon
Mai Abu Moghli
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Center for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University
Project Title: Human Rights Education: A Palestinian Perspective
Country: Jordan
Hadeel Fawadleh
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Institute for Palestine Studies
Project Title: Going back home: Towards analyzing the experiences of Palestinian returnees
Country: Palestine
Abdeltif Elkhalifi
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Ibn Zohr Agadir University
Project Title: Natural and Cultural Heritage and its Role in Developing the Tourist Economy: The Case of the Daraa and Tafilalet Oases
Country: Morocco
Mohamed Ayoub
Postdoctoral Affiliation: American University in Cairo
Project Title: Legal Revitalism: The Shari'a Lawyers' Bar Association Journal in 20th Century Egypt
Country: Egypt
Selection Committee (2018-2019)
Below are the Selection Committee members of the 2018-2019 Cycle of the Early Career Fellows Program
Fadia Kiwan is Professor of Political Science and the Director General of the Arab Women Organization. She was director of the postgraduate program of political science at Saint Joseph University (USJ) in 2000, then founder of the Institute of Political Science in 2002 at the same University. As a researcher, she has published several books and hundreds of articles. She is very active in the field of advocacy for human rights, women’s rights, quality of education, democratization, and sustainable development. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Program at UNESCO since 2013. She currently serves as its Chairperson. She has been a member of the Executive Board of the National Commission for Lebanese Women since 2003. She is also the representative of Lebanon in the Permanent Council of the Francophonie.
Islah Jad (Hossneya Gad) is an Associate Professor, currently linked to Qatar University, International Affairs Department since 2014. Jad is a lecturer on gender issues and politics at the Women's Studies Institute and Cultural Studies Institute of Birzeit University, where she was its director from 2008-2013. She is a founding member of Birzeit University's women’s studies MA program. She has written books and papers on the role of women in politics, Palestinian women and the relationships among them, Islam, and NGOs. She is also a consultant on gender issues to the United Nations Development Programme and is co-author of the UN's Arab Development Report on Women's Empowerment and author of two books: Women at the Crossroads: The Palestinian Women's Movement between Nationalism, Secularism and Islamism(2008, second edition 2013) and Palestinian Female Headed Households (2002). Jad received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2004.
Mohamed Ali Marouani is Associate Professor of Economics at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Deputy Director of the Research Unit “Development and Societies”, Member of the Board of the “Sorbonne Maghreb” Chair and Director of the Master’s Program “Economic Expertise in Development Policies and Projects”. He is a Research Fellow and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum, Research Associate of DIAL (Paris-Dauphine University and Institute of Research for Development), Research Fellow of the Migration Institute and Secretary General of the Cercle des économistes Arabes. He is also a consultant for various international organizations, mainly the World Bank, the ILO and the UNDP. His research focuses on the impact of public policies on employment, on migration and refugees and on the determinants of structural change in the MENA region. Mohamed Ali Marouani is a Tunisian citizen and was born in 1973.
Nawar Al-Hassan Golley is Professor of Literary and Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. Al-Hassan Golley is the author of, Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells her Story (Texas University Press: 2003), editor of Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing (Syracuse University Press: 2007), co-editor of Mapping Arab Women’s Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within (American University in Cairo Press: 2012) and guest editor of HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World‘s Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Arab Women’s Autobiographical Narratives (Dec. 2014). Al-Hassan Golley is the organizer of the first conference on Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Region (March7-9, 2012). She has organized several international conferences and has presented many papers at international conferences such as the Berkshire on the History of Women, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). She has published book chapters and articles in prestigious scholarly journals, and translated literary and critical works by writers such as Adonis, Edward Said, Etel Adnan, and others. In both her research and teaching, Al-Hassan Golley adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on her research interests in Critical and Literary Theory, Autobiography Theory, Post-Colonial Literatures and Discourses, Feminism, and Arab Women’s Writings. Al-Hassan Golley is a regular commentator on gender-related issues in the media.
Pascale Ghazaleh is an Associate Professor of History at the American University in Cairo. Ghazaleh has taught in AUC's history department since 2005. She is an expert on Ottoman history and 19th century Egypt. Ghazaleh received her PhD in history (très honorable, félicitations du jury) from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris in June 2004. Her dissertation was titled “Généalogies patrimoniales. La constitution des fortunes urbaines: Le Caire, 1780-1830” (Patrimonial Genealogies. The Constitution of Urban Wealth: Cairo, 1780-1830). She received her MA in Arabic studies, with a specialization in Middle East history, from the American University in Cairo in 1997. Her thesis was titled "Crafts and Craftspeople in Cairo, 1750-1850." Ghazaleh holds a BA in Political Science and a minor in Development Studies from the American University in Cairo.
