Cycle 1 Grantees
Cycles 1-3 of the Research Grants Program: 2013- 2016
Selected competitively under the theme of “Inequality, Mobility and Development”, the projects under cycles 1-3 tackle important issues across the Arab region; and represent a wide range of expertise in diverse research fields and a mixture of senior and junior scholars. Topics and research sites range from water governance in Amman, Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey, urban development in Bahrain, peasant strategies in rural Egypt after the Revolution, academic international mobility and knowledge production in the case of Lebanon, and Pharmacovigilance in the Arab World. Most of the projects deploy intensive fieldwork- some in multiple sites- and several involve teams of two or more researchers.
Cycle One of the Research Grants Program:
Selection Committee Members for RGP Cycle 1:
- Dr. Rami Daher: Associate Professor at the School of Architect and Built Environment at the German Jordanian University (GJU) and a practicing architect. He taught at the American University of Beirut's Department of Architecture & Design and at Jordan University of Science & Tech (holding position of Department Head between 2003 and 2006). Daher had earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Jordan (1988), a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota (1991), a PhD in Architecture from Texas A&M U (1995), and did his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2001). Daher is a co-founder and a principal of TURATH: Architecture & Urban Design Consultants (1999-present), and Metropolis: Cities Research Council (2008- Present), the research arm of TURATH.
- Dr. Abdelaziz EzzelArab: Professor of Political Economy and History at the American University in Cairo (AUC). EzzelArab earned his BA from AUC in Economics and Political Science in 1975. He earned an MA in Economics from University of Toronto in 1977, and a Diploma in the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management from Harvard University in 1987. His Ph.D. in Islamic Studies came from Mc.Gill University in 2000.
- Dr. Ruba Salih: Reader in Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, UK. Salih is a social anthropologist by training, is a Reader in Gender Studies at SOAS. She has worked and published extensively on transnational migration, diaspora and multiculturalism from a gendered perspective. In the last two years she has been involved (together with Sophie Richter-Devroe, Exeter University) in a research project on the Palestinian refugees, for which she is conducting fieldwork in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.
