Early Career Fellows (2022-2023)
Early Career Fellows (2022-2023)
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.
Below are the fellows in the 2022-2023 Cycle of the Early Career Fellows Program.
Noha Roushdy
Postdoctoral Affiliation: American University in Cairo
Project Title: Schooling Egypt's New Elite: Class, Culture and Belonging in Cairo's International Schools
Country: Egypt
Biography: Noha is an Egyptian cultural anthropologist with more than fifteen years of experience conducting ethnographic, rights-based and policy-oriented research at the intersection between academia and civil society. She grew up in Cairo and received her BA in Middle East Studies and MA in Anthropology from the American University in Cairo (AUC). Between 2006 and 2012, she worked as researcher for multiple non-governmental organizations and research centers in Cairo, navigating the dynamic and volatile political and cultural life of Cairo in the years preceding and during the 2011 uprising. Noha moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 2013 to pursue her doctorate in anthropology at Boston University. She returned with her family to Egypt in 2020, where she is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociales (CEDEJ).
Mohamed Sammouni
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Hassan II University
Project Title: الانسحاب السياسي بعد حركة 20 فبراير: مساهمة لدراسة انسحاب نشطاء الحركات الاحتجاجية من التنظيمات السياسية بالمغرب
Country: Morocco
Biography: Researcher in political sociology. He holds a PhD in political science from Hassan II University of Casablanca. He is working on collective action topics, protest movements and religious extremism. He has published several studies and researches, including: a book entitled “Masks of Extremism: The Sources of Religious Radicalism” (2017), published by "En toutes lettres" and a qualitative study on "Cultural Practices of Moroccans" (2016). He has jointly contributed to a collective book written in French and entitled "The Cedar Tree in the Middle Atlas: An Investigation into slow torment" ( 2021).
