Congratulations to the Abbasi 2024 Summer Grant Awardees!

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the Abbasi 2024 Summer Grants. We are happy to support the work of emerging scholars at Stanford University. Congratulations to the following students for their exceptional projects, and we wish them a productive research and learning experience this summer:

Language Study Grant Awardees:

Asmani Yamin (Arabic, Jordan [remote], Spain)              

AJ Naddaff (Ottoman Turkish, Turkey)

Fernando Martinez Periset (Arabic, Morocco)

Maggie Poulos (Kiswahili, Tanzania)

Makena Owens (Turkish, Turkey)

Nesi Altaras (Ottoman Turkish, Turkey)

Ronald Y. Chen (Arabic, Jordan)

Sylvia Gabriel (Moroccan and Standard Arabic, Morocco)

Yuanhao Zou (Ottoman Turkish, Turkey).

Research, Fieldwork, or Training Grant Awardees:

Bilal Nadeem, "Charting Trauma Care in Za'atari Refugee Camp: An Ethnographic Study of Critical Injury," Jordan

Camille DeJarnett "The impact of language policy choice on civic participation in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa," Senegal

Deniz Cenk Demir, "International Solidarity and the Kurdish Diaspora in Italy," Italy

Lara Arikan, "Foundations of Secular Authority in the Early Turkish Republic, 1920-1945," Turkey

Maria Shevelkina, "Onsite Study: Medieval Anatolian Monumental Ornament," Turkey

Miray Cakiroglu, "Genres of Ruin: Politics of Non-Muslim Property and Disaster in Post-Imperial Turkey," Turkey

Rahemeen Ahmed, "Adapting Futures: Building Disaster Resilience Across Continents from Seas to the Sahara," Pakistan.

Sadaf Sediqi, "Designing Public Health Abroad: Considerations In Evidence-Based Design in Al-Balad Saudi Arabia," Saudi Arabia

Salma Elkhaoudi, "Arab Technofutures" United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.