The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund, made possible by a generous gift from Advisory Committee member Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah Alaoui of Morocco. The fund will support postdoctoral research on the Middle East/North Africa region, with a particular focus on climate change, for three one-year terms. Postdoctoral fellows will be selected through the Weatherhead Scholars Program application process, with a yearly deadline of November 1 of the preceding academic year.
Dr. Hicham Alaoui, a staunch defender of human rights, democratic reform, and social movements, founded the Hicham Alaoui Foundation in 2009, a nonprofit private foundation supporting social science research on the Arab world at leading global universities, among other initiatives. In 2016–2018, Dr. Alaoui participated in the Weatherhead Fellows Program (now the Weatherhead Scholars Program). He earned his PhD at the University of Oxford, specializing in religion and democracy in the Middle East.