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MERC Call for Proposals


Research Awards Competition

Call for Proposals

December 2011

MERC is pleased to announce the 11th round of research awards and invites proposals from qualified
researchers. Deadline for receiving proposals in their final format is 15 November 2011. While open to all
research ideas and topics, the program encourages proposals that apply rigorous social science methodologies
and theories particularly in the following areas:

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MERC Research Awards

Cycle 11

March 2012

 

Özlem Altan-Olcay

Turkey

Working Gendered Citizenships in Turkey: Civil Society Initiatives, Women and the Economy



  

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 10

december 2010

 

Şafika kumral

Turkey

Social and Political Transformation of Extreme Right in Turkey: Elections and Violence


  

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 9

July 2010

 

Denize Yonucu

Turkey

Neoliberal Urban Governance and the Re-Formation of the State in
Turkey: Semi-Corporatization of Istanbul’s municipality, Forced
Displacement of the Shanty- Town Populations and Increasing Police
Violence


Dina Najjar

Egypt

Women and Access to Land in Egypt’s New Lands 


 

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 7

July 2009

 

Cenk Ozbay

Turkey

Masculinity retailed: Governing Gender and work in Globalizing Istanbul


Hiba Bou Akar

Lebanon

Rebuilding the Center, Expanding the Frontier: Reconstructing Post-War(s) Beirut , Lebanon


Suha Bolukbasi

Turkey

Political Islam in Turkey: Are outsiders becoming the established?


 

  

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 5

July 2008

 

Rawia Tawfik

Egypt

State – Society relations and regional role: Comparing Egypt and South Africa


Besma Loukil

Tunisia

For a better variability of Tunisian urban Public parks: A geography of incivility and other offences in public parks in towns of northern Tunisia


Meriem Yafout

Morocco

Women within islamists movements: A modernization factor?


Mohammad Jeghllaly

Lebanon

Regulation mode of a competitive religious field: Dar El Fatwa and Sunni Ulemas in Lebanon


Randa Nasser

Palestine

Feminist consciousness and praxis among Palestinian women activists


 

 

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 4

December 2007

 

Aslihan Aykac

Turkey

The impact of social security reform on women’s labor force participation in Turkey


Lena Meari

Palestine

Interrogating “painful” encounters: The interrogation-encounter between Palestinian political activists and Shabak


May Farah

Lebanon

Idendity in exile: The case of Palestinian youth refugees


Feika Bagbag, Tarek Belhadj & Mohammad Bechir Hlayem

Tunisia

Quality of life and welfare: Study of young Tunisians


Sonia el Amdouni

Tunisia

The feminization of employment in Tunisia: Family, social and professional trajectories of working women


Yasmine Berriane

Morocco

Strategies and Modalities of access into the public sphere of associative women leaders on Morocco: Case study


 

 

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 3

July 2007

 

Utku Balaban

Turkey

Organizational Coordination for Multiple Forms of Industrial Labor in the MENA region: The case of Istanbul, Turkey.


Nour Abu Assab

Jordan

Circassians in the age of nation-state : Stateless entities, banal nationalism in the light of « Jordan First »


Chokri Fidha, Dhia Bouabene & Anissa Mtimet

Tunisia

Pedagogic utilisation of IT in social sciences


Seda Demiralp

Turkey

The periphery’s march to the center and moderation of Islamist and Kurdish movements in Turkey


Ibrahim Mekkawi

Palestine

Formal education and national idendity among Palestinian students in Israel


Olfa Riahi

Tunisia

Dynamics of the geomorphological scene and evolution of a recent naturally arid environnement: The region of Haddedj-Bou Hedma (Southern Tunisia)


 

 

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 2

December 2006

 

Ipek Tureli

Turkey

Istanbul Open City: Exhibiting anxieties of urban modernity Turkey


Mohammad Saadi & Rasheed El Idrissy

Morocco

The crisis of political participation among youth and the vulnerability of partisan politics in Morocco: An attempt at diagnosis and exploration

 


 

Adel Belkahla

Tunisia

The left, Al Zawya and the tribe

Trends of convergence and dissonance between the leftist and Sufi movements in local Tunisian society


Najet Mohammad Khalil Sayem

Yemen

The solution... The crisis AlQat get-togethers in the experience of Yemeni youth.


 

 

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 1

July 2006

 

Asya EL Meehy

Egypt

Informatizing public welfare role of Egypt's SFD 


Fatma Nevra

Turkey

The headscarf ban in the Turkish University


Mai Izeldine Osman

Sudan

Gender gap in political participation in Sudan (women in Parliament) : The Quota system, sudan


Noureddine Aloui

Tunisia

Sociological Impact of Desert tourism : A study of the phenomenon of tourist marriage, Tunisia   


Maher El Hashweh

Palestine

The development of university students ,understanding of democraty, Palestine    


Leila Bouasria

Morocco

Female workers in morocco as heads of households: effect on autonomy


                       

 

 
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