Intissar Mourad Memorial Scholarship In Islamic Studies

Eleyan Sawafta
Ph.D. Student, Political Science

Thesis Topic: The impact of the Israeli war on Gaza on pro-Palestine “campus activism” in universities across the United States and Canada.

Md Nazmul Arefin
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology

Thesis Topic: His doctoral project investigates Islamophobia in Canada by exploring the lived experiences of Muslim university students, their academic freedom, ethnic relations, identity struggles, and responses to anti-Muslim hatred and discrimination. 

Emad Afkham 
PhD candidate; History, Classics & Religion

Thesis topic: His project investigates the relationship between politics and religion in historical Islamic Iran, examining peasant unrest and power relationships in Safavid Persia, known as the Siyāh pūshān (wearers of black). It investigates this particular case of the Islamicate in the context of global history and a comparative study of contemporary European revolts.

Sayeed Al-Zaman
MA (Thesis) in Digital Humanities

Research topic: Religious misinformation on social media in Bangladesh