TIMEP Bassem Sabry Fellowship 2025-2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 28, 2025

Applications are open for the TIMEP Bassem Sabry Fellowship 2025-2026. The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) is accepting candidates for its Bassem Sabry Fellowship, which it hosts in partnership with the Atlas Corps Fellowship at Cultural Vistas. The Bassem Sabry Fellow might be an in-particular person, full-time fellow (40 hours/week) primarily based out of TIMEP’s Washington, DC workplace for a interval of six months between November 15, 2025 and May 15, 2026.

Established in reminiscence of the late Egyptian political author and commentator Bassem Sabry, the Bassem Sabry Fellowship is awarded to a younger skilled who’s dedicated to the ideas of democratic and inclusive change: values that Sabry promoted and espoused throughout his lifetime. The fellowship affords rising stars engaged on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area the distinctive OPPORTUNITY to immerse themselves on the earth of policymaking in Washington, DC, whereas producing programming and evaluation that furthers democratic and inclusive societies within the MENA area.

Fellowship Specifics

The 2025-2026 Bassem Sabry Fellow will:

• Have the chance to provide options-oriented and coverage-related programming and evaluation on a mandate of their selecting;
• Inform and take part in advocacy and coverage alternatives together with conferences and briefings with determination-makers in Washington, DC;
• Drive the discourse by means of media, coverage, and occasion alternatives;
• Access focused and customized expertise-constructing and management alternatives; and
• Be built-in into TIMEP’s world, regional, and Washington, DC-primarily based community of organizations, advocates, and policymakers.

Additionally, because of the partnership with the Atlas Corps Fellowship, the Bassem Sabry Fellow may even obtain the next help:

• A digital Pre-Fellowship Orientation to arrange for profitable on-the-job coaching at TIMEP, and a digital U.S. Pre-Arrival Orientation to arrange professionally and personally for arrival within the United States;
• A digital Mid-Term and End-of-Fellowship Orientation aimed toward serving to fellows take advantage of out of their worldwide trade expertise;
• Support with visa documentation and journey and logistics coordination for arrival to the United States;
• Ongoing and steady customized help and check-ins by means of the size of this system;
• Access to networking and private {and professional} growth alternatives targeted on enhancing fellows’ management and social influence expertise; and
• Participation in group-constructing actions to strengthen networks inside the Cultural Vistas and Atlas Corps alumni communities.

Costs

The Atlas Corps Fellowship covers the next prices for the Bassem Sabry Fellow:

• journey from home metropolis to Washington, DC;
• visa charges prices and transportation stipend for appointments;
• month-to-month cell phone invoice and medical insurance throughout fellows’ keep within the United States;
• month-to-month stipend to cowl fundamental residing bills resembling shared housing, meals, and native transportation; and
• eligibility to entry a one-time put up fellowship stipend offered that the man accomplished all commencement necessities. 

Eligibility

Applicants should have a Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline and should be:

• Proficient in English studying, writing, and talking;
• International candidates primarily based exterior of the United States;
• 35 years of age or youthful; 
• Committed to returning to their base nation after the six-month fellowship; and
• Have a passport legitimate for six months past this system finish date.

Applicants also needs to be:

• Proficient in Arabic studying, writing, and talking;
• Have not less than 3 years of related work expertise;
• Demonstrate a dedication to the values that the late Bassem Sabry espoused in his lifetime and to TIMEP’s mission and ideas; and
• Show connectivity to civil society, grassroots teams, and/or consultants and advocates within the MENA area.

Application

To apply for the Bassem Sabry Fellowship, candidates should submit the next:

• Resume
• One-Page Cover Letter:
  • Introducing your self and your background;
  • Explaining your curiosity within the fellowship; and 
  • Demonstrating how your application contributes to the continuation of the values that the late Bassem Sabry espoused throughout his lifetime.
• Two-Page Statement of Interest:
  • Proposing a particular mandate that you want to your six-month fellowship to give attention to. Note that this isn’t an instructional or scholarly fellowship. All mandates ought to be coverage-related, up to date, and made up of each a subject and focus nation.
  • Addressing the next questions:
    • Why is the subject of your mandate vital in and for the MENA area? Why is that this matter vital for a coverage viewers? How does this matter match into and additional TIMEP’s mission?
    • Which of TIMEP’s programmatic instruments would you employ throughout your fellowship to work on the mandate you will have proposed? (Competitive functions will leverage a couple of device. TIMEP’s programmatic instruments are evaluation, advocacy, occasions, authorized interventions, community constructing, and media and social media).
• Three Professional References
• Bachelor’s Degree Diploma or Official Transcripts
• (Optional) English Proficiency Documentation

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For extra info, go to TIMEP Bassem Sabry Fellowship.