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GRANT- SSRC International Collaborative Grants, Middle East and North Africa

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
Program on the Middle East & North Africa

2002-2003 International Collaborative Research Grants
Reconceptualizing Public Spheres in the Middle East and North Africa

The SSRC's Program on the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) is pleased to 
announce its second annual grant competition supporting international 
collaborative research focusing on the MENA region (defined as Iran to 
Morocco). We invite proposals that bring together researchers in different 
locations to address issues related to the changing nature of public spheres 
in the region. The notion of "public spheres" is used in a broad sense, to 
cover a range of historical and contemporary aspects of the MENA region.  

Topics could include, but are not limited to, the following:

 * The transformation of socio-economic conditions, state and non-state 
   structures, political regimes and conditions of political participation
 * The construction of citizenship and other/alternative individual and 
   collective identities, and their impact on discourses and practices 
   concerning self, family, community, sexuality, gender and ethnicity.
 * The emergence of sites of cultural production and consumption as well as 
   the creation of new publics through media and information technologies.

Regardless of specific topic, proposals are expected to engage critically 
with the literature on public spheres and to assess the relevance of 
particular approaches and concepts to the MENA region.

*Please note that proposals focusing on narrowly defined security issues are 
not eligible and will be directed to the collaborative research grant 
competition of the SSRC's Global Security and Cooperation Program.

Awards: Awards will be for a maximum amount of $35,000 and for a maximum 
duration of 18 months, to be undertaken during the period of July 2003 
through January 2004.

Eligibility:
 * Applicants and all research partners must be holders of a Ph.D degree or 
   its equivalent.
 * Applicants can be of any nationality, from any country and from any 
   discipline as long as the proposed research is well grounded in social 
   science theory and methodology.
 * The planned collaboration can include as many partners in as many 
   locations as desired but must include at least two researchers in two 
   different countries of the MENA region. The research itself can focus on
one 
   site or many sites in the MENA region, and intra-regional,
cross-regional or 
   global comparisons are also encouraged.

Application Process: The application process includes two stages: a 
preliminary proposal stage and a final proposal stage. A selection committee 
will screen the preliminary proposals and choose a small number that will be 
eligible for the second stage of the application process. Applicants 
selected to advance to the second stage will be invited to a workshop to be 
held in early March 2003 in one of the countries of the MENA region. In this 
workshop the theme of the program (Reconceptualizing Public Spheres) will be 
further elaborated, the concept of collaboration will be discussed and the 
specific research proposals commented upon. Guidelines for the final 
proposal will be explained.  Preliminary proposals will be accepted in 
English, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, and French, however the working language of 
the workshop and the final application will be English.

Preliminary proposals and application materials will be accepted on a 
rolling basis until the Application Deadline of November 15, 2002. Decisions 
concerning preliminary applications will be announced by January 31, 2003.

For further information, application instructions, complete eligibility 
requirements, and all necessary forms, please visit our website at: 
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/mena

Or contact us directly at:

MENA Program
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 377-2700 x 441
Fax: (212) 377-2727
E-Mail: mena@ssrc.org

Mary Ann Riad
Program Coordinator
Program on the Middle East & North Africa
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10019
riad@ssrc.org
tel: (212) 377-2700 ext.441
fax: (212) 377-2727

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