The Faculty of Media at Yarmouk University announces the opening of applications for the Shireen Abu Akleh Scholarship for pursuing a Master’s degree in Media for the Second Semester of the Academic Year 2025/2026, for the fourth consecutive year.

According to the announcement, the scholarship covers admission and registration fees, as well as tuition fees for accredited credit hours, excluding remedial and repeated courses.

Applicants of all nationalities are eligible to apply. Scholarship recipients will be admitted to the thesis track, provided that their thesis focuses on Palestinian media issues, or highlights the impacts of the occupation and the suffering of the Palestinian people in political, economic, social, health, or cultural fields.

The University’s Board of Trustees had previously approved this scholarship in honor of the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli gunfire while carrying out her humanitarian and professional fieldwork in Jenin refugee camp. Abu Akleh was also one of the university’s distinguished graduates from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Class of 1991.