Cycle 3 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 Three of the Research Grants Program:
Selection Committee Members for RGP Cycle 3:
- 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. 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.
- Dr. Chahir Zaki: Assistant Professor of Economics at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Zaki teaches and conducts research on trade policy. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, an M.A. in Economics from Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. His area of specialization is development economics. His research interests include international trade, trade policy, trade in services, computable general equilibrium modeling, and gravity models.
- Dr. Fadma Ait Mous: Assistant Professor at Ain Chock Faculty of Letters and the Humanities (University Hassan II of Casablanca) and Researcher at the Centre Marocain des Sciences Sociales (CM2S) at the same university. She is also research manager at Centre de Recheche Economie, Société et Culture (CRESC) de l'EGE Rabat (Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique).
She holds a PhD in Political Science from Hassan II University in Casablanca where she wrote her thesis on the emergence of Moroccan nationalism from local to national networks.
Her research is mainly focused on issues related to nationalism and social movements, gender and socio-political transformations, history and memory, social media, citizenship and migration; and her recent publications include the book “Le métier d’intellectuel. Dialogues avec quinze penseurs du Maroc” (With D. Ksikes, En Toutes Lettres, 2014) ; “The Interest of Moroccans toward their Euro-Med Neighbours”, In The Anna Lindh Report 2014 ; "Terres collectives et inégalités: le combat des soulaliyates" (with Yasmine Berriane, in La Revue Economia, April 2014).
- Dr. Abdelkader Latreche: Population Expert at the Permanent Population Committee of the Ministry of Developmental Planning and Statistics in Doha, Qatar. He previously worked at the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and has earned his PhD in Statistics, Demography and Sociology from Paris 1 University in Paris, France.
