Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation / BRISMES Scholarships

• The applicant must be a BRISMES member by the time the application is submitted.
• The applicant must have submitted a PhD dissertation in the last 2 years in any disciplinary field, on a topic related to the study of the Middle East and North Africa and must not have a permanent academic position when they receive the grant.
• Priority will be given to applicants with limited or no access to institutional support (whether time or funding) for research-focused activities.

Eligible activities include (but are not necessarily limited to):

• Developing an article for a peer-reviewed journal
• Developing a book chapter
• Transforming a PhD thesis into a book manuscript
• Developing pilot research for a new project
• Preparing a grant proposal for their own postdoctoral work
• Developing an exhibition, a film, multi-series podcast, a workshop or some other creative practice that helps share your research with academic and/or non-academic audiences
• But also, please feel free to be more creative than we are!

The activity must be completed within 12 months of receipt of the scholarship.