Honouring Dr. Muin M. Yousef, a Palestinian academic, political prisoner, and human rights advocate by awarding an annual scholarship to a student entering second year in the Human Rights & Global Justice program who demonstrates leadership, understanding and a passion for the advocacy of human rights and global justice. Available to domestic and international full-time students with high academic achievement.
*Students must be enrolled as declared majors in Human Rights and Global Justice
*Have a minimum 80% academic standing
*Domestic or International full time students
*Preference to 2nd year students
Applications open from March 1- April 1, 2026: mytrent>finances>scholarships>Dr. Muin M. Yousef Scholarship in Human Rights & Global Justice
About Dr. Muin Yousef (Fares)
Dr. Muin Yousef was born a refugee in Deir Al Balah, Gaza in 1972. His parents were from the Palestinian village of Ibdis, which was ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948 during the Nakba*.
For 15 years (1993-2008), Dr. Muin Yousef was held as a political prisoner in an Israeli prison. It was here, where, for most of his early adult life and deprived of his fundamental civil and political rights, that he took an interest in Quranic studies.
Following his release from prison, Dr. Muin Yousef obtained a PhD in Quranic interpretation and its Sciences from the Holy Quran University in the Republic of Sudan.
On September 1st, 2024, while attempting to seek passage for himself and his family from Israel’s siege on Gaza, Dr. Muin was killed by an Israeli quadcopter drone strike. He was just 52 years old. He is survived by his wife and children.
Dr. Muin Yousef was passionate about Indigenous self-determination, human rights, and decolonial struggles for justice. It is in this spirit that his family created this scholarship. It is their hope that his passion for global justice and human rights continues to live on as students in the Human Rights and Global Justice program learn about his and other legacies of struggles for global justice, hopefully eventually being inspired to contribute to ongoing struggles in their own communities.
For more information on the 1948 Nakba “catastrophe” which resulted in the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of ¾ of Palestinians from their homelands, see here.
For more information on the ongoing deprivation of civil and political rights by the State of Israel towards Palestinians, or what several international bodies have deemed to be an apartheid system, see here.
For more information on the extent of the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people by the State of Israel, see this UN report from 2025.