2025 Travel Grant Winners

“Our Government is a Threat to our life": Health Material-Semiotic Indeterminacy and Citizens' Response to the Impact of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Nigeria
Mr. Ebenezer Adeyemi, University of Iowa

Mapping Leila Abouzeid's The Last Chapter from Islam, Gender and Education Nexus
Dr. Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata

Jihadist violence as a war between good and evil: the case of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Dr. Sabina Brakoniecka, University of Warsaw

Breaking the Barriers: Turkey and Israel in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean
Dr. Omri Eilat, University of Haifa

Engineering Metabolism: Women, Salt Technologies, and Wartime Science in Biafra
Mr. Odinaka Eze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Israeli Conceptions and the Role of Open-Source Intelligence: Between the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 2023 Hamas Attack
Mr. Jonathan Franco, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies

Morocco's Place in Africa
Mr. Caleb Griffin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sino-Arab Nation-building and Cultural Decolonization on Cultural Diplomacy 1955-1966
Ms. Ying Huang, Beijing International Studies University

Cemetery as a dwelling place: Architecture, spacecraft, and burial grounds in Colonial Onitsha Province, Nigeria
Mr. Mathias Isiani, University of California, Berkeley

The Continuity and Discontinuity of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi’s Influence upon Fethullah Gülen’s Descriptions of Tyrants
Mr. Thomas Messick, Melbourne School of Theology

Emerging Actors and Democratization in Lusophone Africa
Dr. Alvaro Nobrega, University of Lisbon

The Lebanese Shi'ite in the Modern Era, in the Trap of Identities
Mrs. Noa Rivan, Ariel University

Hejab Strikers: the history and the relationship between women's Soccer and national identity in Iran
Mrs. Yuval Shoval, Ariel University

The Unique Case of Saudi Arabia: State Development and Foreign Policy Decisions
Dr. Ilias Tasopoulos, Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East & Islamic Studies, University of Peloponnese

The Appointment of Women in Religious Judicial Systems in Iran
Mrs. Sarah Zilberberg, Ariel University