Amman Mellon Fellows 2023 2023 Mellon Fellows Stepan Kachalin Russia Research Topic: The role of visual culture in the construction of social attitudes toward sexuality in Russia, 1881-1917 Basheer Mufleh Yemen Research Topic: Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of the War in Yemen in the World Press Tijen Tunali Turkey Research Topic: Art Against Authoritarianism: Aesthetic Activism in Post-Arab Spring Middle East and North Africa Sulaiman Taan Syria Research Topic: In Narratives of Violence: Cultural Analysis of The Syrian Political Song Adnan Almohamad Syria Research Topic: The impact of internal displacement on archaeological sites in northwestern Syria during the war Ahmad Barakat Syria Research Topic: Orientalism and hierarchy of victims - A comparative study of Ukrainian and Syrian refugees’ representation in Western media Mansour Al-Maswari Yemen Research Topic: Revisiting the Arabia: Cultural Regeneration and the Question of Belonging in the Contemporary Gulf Societies Wadeea Zerkly Syria Research Topic: The Town of Ekalte and its People: The Urban Structure and Settings of the Late Bronze Age Settlement of Tall Munbāqa Özgür Olgun Erden Turkey Research Topic: Troll-Politics and Digital Fascistization: AK-Trolls as the Enablers of AKP’s Authoritarian Regime in Turkey
