Announcing The Abbasi 2023 Summer Grant Recipients

Join us in congratulating the Abbasi 2023 Summer Grant Recipients!

8 undergraduate and graduate students, received our 2023 grants to conduct research, study languages and pursue internships related to Islam and Muslim societies and cultures. Students will travel different parts of the United States as well as various countries and will report on their experiences in the Fall.

Clockwise from left to right:


San Min Park: Research at the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae at the University of Munster in Germany
Mae MacDonald: Research on Somali and South Sudanese refugees in Kenya
Abigail Schweizer: Research  at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC
Katherine Sorensen: Arabic Study at the American University of Beirut
Alex Aislinn Borthwick: Arabic Study in Jordan
Nicole Benalcazar Pavlik: Arabic Study in Jordan
Marina Johnson: Theater Arts Research in Ramallah, Palestine
Sameeha Naseem Khan: Research on Sufi Hop Hop in Senegal.

If you are a continuing Stanford student and interested in our grants program, please visit our website here for more information on student opportunities.