The ECMC Fund in memory of Mrs. Ayesha Lynda Quraishi, Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmad Quraishi and Mehaboob Unisa Begum

Reyhaneh Javadi
PhD student, Sociology

Thesis topic: She examines Iranian women’s struggle for rights in a Muslim country as a “social non-movement.”  Focusing on the everyday struggles of women who continue to push the boundaries of the gendered policies of the state, she asks whether and how individual attempts by women justice professionals and ordinary citizens to reclaim their rights have resulted in broader structural changes in laws and legal procedures.

Saman Rezaei
PhD Student, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Project: Narratological Study of Suhrawardi’s Mystical Narratives

Ehsan Kashfi
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Project: Contemporary Islamic Political Thought

Noureddin Zaamout
PhD candidate, Department of Political Science
Project: Examining the post-Arab Spring Syria.

Neslihan Akpinar
MA. student, Department of Political Science
Project: Examining how Islamic schools negotiate liberal secular values and norms in Canada within a multicultural society.

Sajad Soleymani Yazdi
PhD Candidate, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Project: Contemporary Islamic Political Thought

Ehsan Kashfi
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Project: Contemporary Islamic Political Thought

Nasim Ahmadian
PhD Candidate, Department of Music
PhD Topic:  The Aesthetic Sorrow of Iranian Classical Music in relations to the Islamic culture and the Sufi spiritual teachings

Sajad Soleymani Yazdi
PhD Candidate, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Project: Contemporary Islamic Political Thought

Ehsan Kashfi
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Project: Contemporary Islamic Political Thought