Awad Halabi’s research in Jerusalem funded by PARC has earned him the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award for the Humanities for 2007 from the Middle East Studies Association. Awad Halabi is an Assistant Professor at Wright State University. Halabi studies and teaches Middle Eastern and Islamic History and Religion. His thesis titled "The transformation of the Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1917-1937: from local and Islamic to modern and nationalist celebration" was completed at the University of Toronto at the Department of Near and Middle East Civilizations. PARC funded Halabi’s travel to Jerusalem where he completed the research necessary for his thesis, which is currently in the process of being publishing.