2024 Travel Grant Winners

Actors and Processes of Radicalization in the Lake Chad Basin
Dr. Abdel Salam Aretouyap, University of Buea

Cinematic Militarization and Turkey's Hard Power Projection
Dr. Senem Cevik, Woodbury University

Water Thicker than Gas: Turkey, UNCLOS, and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Gas Decade, 2010-2020
Dr. Omri Eilat, University of Haifa

Shattered Dreams: Israel's Intervention in Lebanon, 1976-1982
Dr. Yogev Elbaz, Tel-Aviv University

The Involvement of The Islamic Republic of Iran in the Bahrain at the Arab Spring Events
Mrs. Shahaf Hitman Apini, Tel Aviv University

“A City with Walls”: A Religious-Created Space and the Making of Onitsha City, 1857 – 1922
Mr. Mathias Isiani, University of Pennsylvania

Patterns of Violence among Arabs in Lod During May 2021: Examining Civil, National and Religious Factors
Mrs. Alona Izkovich, Ariel University

Analyzing Afghan Women-Led Social Movements’ Resistance Against Taliban Control: Women and Collective Action in Post-2021 Afghanistan
Ms. Hasina Jalal, University of Pittsburgh

Eastern Part of Democratic Republic of Congo and Great Lakes Region: Focusing on the Historical Contextualization of the Banyamulenge Ethnic Identity
Prof. Kwang-Su Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

From Diverting Rivers to Flooding Deserts: French Colonial Hydrology Schemes in North Africa, 1830-1960
Dr. Tyson Luneau, SUNY Cortland

Hybrid Warfare in the Desert: British Strategies and Tactics Employed Against the Ottoman Empire During the Great War (1914-1918)
Mr. Ali Mahmada, Debrecen University and Huddersfield University

Hidden In Plain Sight: The Beginnings Of French Chemical Warfare In Morocco’s Rif War (April-July 1925)
Dr. Francisco Martinez, University of Zaragoza

Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
Mr. Ahmad Partaw, University of South Florida

From Istanbul to Morris, Minnesota: A Comparative History of Boarding Schools
Mr. Mahmut Polat, University of Minnesota

Unraveling the Surge: Understanding the Escalation of Violence in Arab Society in Israel
Mr. Igal Shiri, Ariel University

Managing The Persian Question after the WWI – The Geopolitical Strategy and Reasoning of British India
Mr. István Vácz, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest

Laying the Groundwork-How Syria Thwarted American Policy in Lebanon-1982-1983
Mr. Jesse Weinberg, Tel Aviv University

Mass Media as a Weapon for Disseminating Terrorist Ideology: The Case Study of Hamas
Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, Yezreel Valley College