During the main funding phase, the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM)  will invite up to six promising postdoc fellows for up to three years of which a maximum of three will be present at MECAM at the same time. MECAM intends to preferentially appoint scholars from the Maghreb for these postdoc fellow positions to build up potential members of MECAM’s future academic leadership.

MECAM Fellow

Dr. Maya Ben Ayed

(Associate Researcher, Centre d’Histoire Sociale, UMR 8058 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CNRS, France)

Renewal of Aesthetics and Expressions of Dissent: Tunisian Animation in the Global Era

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MECAM Fellow

Dr. Hassan Ould Moctar

(Former Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London, UK)

Migration, Inequality and the Kadehine Movement in Mauritania

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MECAM Fellow

Dr. Houssem Eddine Chachia

(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tunis, Tunisia)

Echoes of Expulsion:  Contested Pasts, Living Memories, and the Morisco Question in Arab Thought

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Please find all fellows of one academic year in our brochure « Program and All Fellows » that you can download here.