Cluster Principal Investigators
18 May 2026The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) announces nine fellowships for postdoctoral and advanced researchers in the humanities and social sciences humanities and social sciences for the period September 2026 to April 2027. Under the guiding theme “Imagining the Future: Dealing with Disparity”, MECAM is focusing on a research program comprising five “interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Research Fields” (IRFs): Aesthetics and Cultural Practices, Inequalities and Mobility, Memory and Justice, Resources and Sustainability, and Identities and Beliefs. Applications must relate to at least one of the interdisciplinary research fields.
MECAM Fellow
Dr. Amany Alsiefy
(Researcher, Berlin /Germany)
Performing Power: Hegemonic Masculinity and Its Discontents in Contemporary Tunisian and Algerian Fiction
MECAM Fellow
Dr. Sana BenAli Taga
(Higher Institute of Digital Engineering of Tunis/Tunisia)
Narratological Adaptations, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial Resistance in the Radio Folktales of Abd al-Aziz al-Aroui
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Fatma Abdelkaoui
(Mediterranean School of Business (MSB), South Mediterranean University/Tunisia)
Involuntary Im/mobility and Youth Inequality in the Maghreb: Urban Peripheries in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Yasser Rhimi
(Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis, Tunis El-Manar University/Tunisia)
In Search of ‘Green Tunisia’: Tunisian Environmental Imagination Between Lost Narratives and Contemporary Awareness
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Hanene Baroumi
(Assistant Professor of English Literature, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis/Tunisia)
Rotten Futures: Animality, Madness, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Maghrebian Literary and Cultural Representations
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Florian Keller
(Graduate School, Global Intellectual History, Berlin/Germany)
The Tunisian Cultural Journal 21*15: Between Progressive Islamism and Liberation Theology
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Fidelia Danielle Renne
(King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Development/England)
Between the Square and the Café: Informal Spaces, Information Exchange, and the Deliberative Politics of Anti-Pollution Mobilisation in Southern Tunisia
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Amalia Dragani
(EHESS/France)
Saharan Elites and Intra-African Student Mobilities
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MECAM Fellow
Dr. Daniele Cantini
(Global Development Network (New Delhi, India, and Clermont-Ferrand, France), affiliated with the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin/Germany)
Reframing Research in the Arab World: Anthropological Perspectives on Research Training and Researchers’ Mobility
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Please find all fellows of one academic year in our brochure « Program and All Fellows » that you can download here.