According to the Mehr reporter, Ali Mohammad Soltani, in a press conference held today, Sunday, December 11, at the vice preside’s office for science, technology and economics of the knowledge base, referring to the foundation’s call with the title “Palestine issue: yesterday, today and tomorrow”, said: With the iensification of the Palestinian issue and the Gaza crisis on October 7, 2023 and the occurrence of human tragedies in the occupied territories and the invasion of the usurping Israeli regime on the lands of the West Bank, numerous historical, political, legal, artistic, psychological and social questions in general The field of Palestine studies was formed and its reflection cast a shadow on world policies, and at the same time, there are many questions about Palestine that need to be answered by scieific ceers and academic circles.
The head of the National Science Foundation of Iran added: The Foundation is considering scieific research in the form of research projects, doctoral or postdoctoral theses in order to explain and analyze the various dimensions of this issue in the priority areas of history, political geography, and historical ahropology. Palestine, ancie heritage and Palestinian civilization, ecology, climate and the Palestinian issue, the Palestinian issue from the perspective of political science and iernational relations and law, and Palestine from the perspective of demography and social psychological studies and sociology (including the issue of immigras and refugees) to support
Soltani examines other priority areas of research in the Palestinian call: the represeation of the Palestinian issue in literature and art, the represeation of Palestine in the mainstream media and social media, Palestine and economic and socio-cultural future research from a local, regional and global perspective. Iran’s foreign policy on the Palestinian issue with historical and future-orieed approaches, evaluated the policies and performance of iernational institutions as well as differe couries including the couries of the Islamic world, the region, Europe, and the United States on the Palestinian issue.
The head of the Iranian National Science Foundation meioned the date of this call uil 15th of Bahman 1403 and said: In this call, in addition to scieific publications including articles in prestigious iernational and domestic journals, authoring books and articles related to the field of research in iernational languages from Arabic, English, etc. seences get special support. The audience of this call are professors of all scieific fields, especially humanities, social sciences and arts.
He explained about the support of research projects in this call and added: The National Science Foundation of Iran supports research projects up to 350 million Tomans, doctoral dissertations up to 110 million Tomans, and mohly postdoctoral researchers receive 100% of the salary of a full professor of a supported university. are placed
