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Bassem Chit Fellowship for the Study of Activism. Lebanon Support, in partnership with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Orient-Institut Beirut, and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Beirut Office launch the Bassem Chit fellowship for the study of activism. Deadline for submissions : July 15, 2018 . L'appel à candidature est disponible en français, arabe et anglais.Bassem Chit was a founding member of Lebanon Support and was its Executive Director between 2008 and 2014. He had more than 14 years professional experience in information and knowledge management in development and humanitarian contexts in parallel to his social and political activism, in Lebanon and the region. You can read more about Bassem Chit here.The Bassem Chit fellowship for the study of activism is a one-year post doctoral fellowship based in Beirut, Lebanon. The fellowship is a joint initiative of Lebanon Support, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Orient-Institut Beirut, and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Beirut Office. The fellowship aims to give early career scholars (0-3 years out of the Phd) in  the social sciences the opportunity to conduct research on activism in the Arab world. The Bassem Chit fellowship accepts proposals in Arabic, English, or French.Read the rest of this call online.Disciplinary and Thematic Focus:​The Bassem Chit Fellowship program aims at targeting scholars in the social sciences, particularly in the fields of political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, education, demography, media and cultural studies, among others., We also encourage applications from the humanities, including applications covering literature, cultural studies, history, philosophy and arts.During the fellowship, the scholar will be requested to:​ Assist in Lebanon Support’s mapping of collective actions and produce quarterly digests Produce an in-depth research paper on their research topic to be published on Lebanon Support’s Civil Society Knowledge Centre Organise a round table at the OIB around their research Participate and present a paper at the ACSS Fourth Conference that will be held  on April 12-14 2019 Organise a round table event on issues pertaining to collective action at Lebanon Support.The fellowship duration is 12 months, and the earliest starting date is September 2018. The fellowship is hosted at Lebanon Support, and funded by both the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Beirut Office.