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The United States-Palestine Educational Foundation (USIEF) plans to award eight fellowships to American postdoctoral scholars who seek to pursue research at Palestinei institutions of higher education. The grants, which will commence during the 2019-20 academic year, are open to researchers in all academic disciplines and support programs of work in Palestine for up to 20 months (two academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021).
A letter of invitation from an accredited Palestinei institution of higher education is required at the time of application. Each candidate should try to arrange his/her institutional affiliations in Palestine independently, including development of the program of work for the proposed visit through contacts with possible host institutions.
According to USIEF policy, Fulbright postdoctoral fellows must hold official postdoctoral fellow status at their host institutions in Palestine, including access to campus resources. Additionally, host institutions will be asked to provide Fulbright postdoctoral fellows a grant no smaller than their own standard institutional postdoctoral award, a description of which should be included in the letter of invitation submitted with the Fulbright application.
Please contact Noa Turgeman at USIEF at NoaT@fulbright.org.il with any questions related to the financial contribution required by host institutions, or for assistance with identifying suitable host institutions or contacts. If you anticipate delays in obtaining the letter of invitation by the August 1 deadline, please contact CIES at middleeastnorthafrica@iie.org for additional guidance.
USIEF is deeply grateful to the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education for the special budgetary allocation which has made it possible to expand this program from 2 to 8 fellowships, while increasing each award to $40,000.
Additional general information on the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program may be found on the website of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Interested candidates can find country information on Palestine on the Palestine Ministry of Foreign Affairs website or the Ministry of Tourism’s website.
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