MERC Research Awards

Cycle 7

July 2009

Abderrahim Bourkia  

Morocco

Aspects OF Urban Violence e in Casablanca

Cenk Ozbay

Turkey

Masculinity retailed: Governing Gender and work in Globalizing Istanbul

Rosie Bsheer

Lebanon

Making History: Archives, Museums and History Textbooks in Saudi Arabia

Hiba Bou Akar

Lebanon

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

Azat Zana Gündoğan

Turkey

On the Outskirts of a Mega-City, in the Middle of Industry:Migrant Experiences from a Satellite-City, Gebze, Turkey

Suha Bolukbasi

Turkey

Political Islam in Turkey: Are outsiders becoming the established ?

Saida Al-Baccouche

Tunisia

Tourism and Social Change in the Tunisian Sahel (coast):

A Study of the Social, Cultural and Psychological Consequences of Sex Tourism in Mahdia

Sbeih Sbeih

Palestine

Professionalization of NGOs in Palestine: Between the pressure of the financial backers and the logic of Political commitment

MERC Research Awards

Cycle 6

December 2008

Hasna Hussein

Lebanon

Women and the Public Space New jobs, rising voices and assumed citizenship

Mahdi Mabrouk

Tunisia

Tunisia and Clandestine Migration in the North African (Maghrebi) Context: Culture and Practices

Mohamed Nachi

Ahmed Khouaja

Tunisia

Tunisia in Search of Compromise: Public Arena, virtual public space and the advent of a new civil society in Tunisia

Tahreer Araj

Palestine

From Services to Ideological Formation: Building Community Agency in Palestine

Dalia Essam Wahdan

Egypt

Local Governance and Spatial Disparities: A study of Passenger Transport in Sitta October Governorate, Egypt

Rojda Alac

Turkey

The Question of Identity under “The State of Exception”: The case of Kurdish Women in Van

Murat Es

Turkey

Turkish-Dutch Mosques and the Construction of Transnational Spaces in Europe.

Catherine Therrien

Morocco

Nomad identity: identity and migration trajectories of foreign-Moroccan mixed couples in Morocco

Brahim El Morchid

Morocco

Building ties between Research and the Civil Society in the Arab world: The Case of Morocco

Dian Makram Obeid  

Egypt

Steel Lives under Economic Reforms: Everyday Politics of Labour in Helwan, Egypt

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

Saniye Dedealglu

Turkey

Dynamics of social exlusion of migrant women in Turkey: The case of Azerbaijani women

Suha Bolukbasi

Turkey

Political Islam in Turkey: Are outsiders becoming the established ?

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

Saieb Musette

Algeria

Sociological approch of migrant’s transfers behaviors

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

Bouchra Khaoua

Morocco

The promotion of Women’s status in Morocco between the imperatives of compliance to international standards and the Islamic referential frame, Morocco

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

Laroussi Amri 

Tunisia

Donation, reciprocity and subsistence/ livelihood: Tunisia North-West rural communities

Najet Mohammad Khalil Sayem

Yemen

The solution --- The crisis

Al Qat 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   

Hassane Mouri & Senim ben Abdallah

Tunisia

Youth participation and citizenship in Tunisia

Omran Mohamed El Kip &  Hassan Belhadj

Tunisia, Libya

Pedagogical features of environmental citizenship in institutions, clubs and associations in Tunisia and Lybia

Sidi Mohamed Wild El Jid, Aïcha Taieb, Aïcha B.Messaoud & Naima Nassib

Tunisia, Lybia, Mauritania, Algeria

Woman and un-codified work in errigular work in the Magreb: the case of informal trade among women, Mauritania, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria

Leila Bouasria

Morocco

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