Summary: We are requesting funding to support a series of events, aimed at expanding the network activities of MENA S&R. During 2023-2024, we will organise an international hybrid workshop, an onsite tour, a virtual seminar series, a student writing essay prize and a writing retreat. Inspired by recent studies of non-Christian contexts in the study of science and religion, our initiative brings together early career and senior scholars to reflect upon the ways the increase of research in non-Christian religious contexts has changed research methods and agendas. Through a series of think tank meetings and collaborative writing projects, this year we will reflect on the connections between pioneering scholarship on science and religion and recent works in non-Christain contexts, working together to articulate the potential impacts of non-Christian scholarship on main themes in the study of science and religion. In its initial stage (July 2021 – June 2023), MENA S&R

Summary: In Israel, the UEA, Turkey, and many other countries in the MENA region, the study of the interface of science and religion from a social science perspective is not yet developed into an established field of inquiry. The proposed network seeks to help encourage research that studies the social and cultural dimensions of the interaction of these two extremely powerful forces of science and religion in society. By bringing together leading scholars, both from the region and well as from the global research community, with emergent local scholars and advanced local graduate students, the network aims to promote further academic engagement and scholarship in such wide-ranging disciplines as history, sociology, education, religious studies, cultural studies, STS, law, philosophy, theology, and anthropology. The recent normalization of diplomatic relations between a number of countries in the MENA region presents a momentous opportunity for allowing broader geographical and cultural inclusion within a