Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl given an Honourable Mention for the 2012 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize

Congratulations to Reem Abou-El-Fadl, whose recent Politics DPhil thesis, Divergent Pasts, Divergent Choices: Foreign Policy and Nation Building in Turkey and Egypt in the 1950s, has been awarded the Honourable Mention for the 2012 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize.

The Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities. It was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. More information on the prize can be found here.

Reem is currently the Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations & Conflict Resolution in the Middle East at St Edmund Hall (Oxford) and the Department of Politics and International Relations.