2000s

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

John Baskerville (Ph.D. Arabic), Assistant Professor of Arabic, U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Dissertation: From Tahdhiib al-Amma to Tahmiish al-Ammiyya: in search of social and literary roles for standard and colloquial Arabic in late 19th century Egypt
Supervisor: Kristen Brustad

Steven Robertson (M.A., Arabic)
M.A. Thesis:
Supervisor: Kristen Brustad

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Nathan Abercrombie (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: US energy policy and strategy during the Iran-Iraq War
Supervisor: Kamran Aghaie

Kristy Blumeyer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Muslim feminisms in the United States
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi

Matthew Penn Boris (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: What would Jesus do? What would Ali do? religious appeals to the revolution in Iran and El Salvador
Supervisor: Kamran Aghaie

Mai-Anh Epperly (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Women's voices: women and literature in the nationalist movements of Algeria and Palestine
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi 

Jordan Forbes (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Representations of Palestinians in English-language Israeli newspapers: 24 May-4 July 2007
Supervisor: Avraham Zilkha

David Ingram (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis:
Supervisor: Yoav Di-Capua

Andrew Jan (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Islamism, nationalism, and anti-colonialism: disentangling the memoirs of an Egyptian Muslim Brother and a Free Officer (1928-1954)
Supervisor: Yoav Di-Capua

Christopher Lord (M.A. Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Al-Muwāfaqāt fī Uṣūl al-Sharīʹa, volume I: premises (translation and analysis)
Supervisor: Hina Azam

Megan McSwain (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The origins and evolution of southern policy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1939
Supervisor: Wm. Roger Louis

Ramey Moore (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Broadcasting their selves: YouTube and Berber/Amazigh community online
Supervisor: Sonia Seeman

Xiao Wen Qiao (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies
M.A. Thesis: Discover the double-otherness: state, local community and Hui Muslim women
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi

Paul Tchir (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: "But, to take part?" : a study of Middle Eastern participation in the Summer Olympic Games from 1912 through 1996
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi

Cameron Thibos (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Corporate social responsibility discourse in the Arab world
Supervisor: Kate Gillespie

Mu Tong (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Code-Switching in Arab media discourse
Supervisor: Karin Wilkins

Alana Witte (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The city's secrets: the exploitation of migrant laborers in the Gulf
Supervisor: Kamran Asdar Ali

Anne Womer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis: Dispute resolution in Muslim minority communities: the theory, practice, and potential of Islamic mediation
Supervisor: Hina Azam

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Ramin Sarraf (Ph.D., Persian), Assistant Professor, National University
Dissertation: Designing a Persian slang dictionary
Supervisor: Michael Craig Hillmann

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Casey Addis (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
Professional Report: U.S. nonproliferation policy: lessons from the case of Israel 

Alexandra Blase (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The politicization of the headscarf in Turkey: understanding Turkish politics in symbols
Supervisor: Yildiray Erdener and Harold Liebowitz

Leili Davari (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The blood from within her: a cross-religion analysis of texts and practice on female blood
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi

Katelyn Downing (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Project Manager, Global Language Solutions
M.A. Thesis: From folk arts to photography, video and film: Middle Eastern women's empowerment through artistic production
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi

Adrienne Dunlap (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: 'New' Terrorism: Definition, Dissection and Doubt
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Holiy Ghali (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Doctoral Student, Department of History
M.A. Thesis: USAID and U.S. foreign policy in Egypt, Lebanon and Israel: a comparative case study
Supervisor: Wm. Roger Louis

Scott Johnson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Modern proxy wars: states providing military aid to insurgencies
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Anna Maxbauer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)

M.A. Thesis: Value proposition: religious and political economy of Islamic banking in Turkey and Egypt

Supervisor: Clement Henry

Ohad Meyer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Beyond the pale: discourse hegemony and the rise of AIPAC
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Evan Renfro (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Winning hearts and minds in an age of shock and awe
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Mark Riniker (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Teacher, Albuquerque Public Schools
M.A. Thesis: The tafsīr tradition, Ahl al-kitāb, and questions of religious pluralism: a comparative study of classical and modern tafsīr in relation to contemporary Muslim scholarship

Supervisor: Hina Azam

Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Christine Anderson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Academic Advisor, School of Undergraduate Studies, UT-Austin
M.A. Thesis: Seizing space: the potential of Presbyterian divestment discourse to challenge media representation boundaries for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Supervisor: Karin Wilkins

Jonathan Arnoult (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Religion and politics: investigating the relationship between the Islamist social movement and the Muslim intra-religious convert
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Lee Bagan (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Western influence on terror groups in central Asia
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Mansoor Bharmal (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Model Islamic will under Texas law
Supervisor: Hina Azam

Hiroshi Fujikawa (M.A. Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The nation-in-arms character of Israeli politics and society and its implications of the recent Israeli-Hezbollah conflict
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Li He (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: China's energy interests in the Middle East
Supervisor: Kate Gillespie

Jennifer Lamm (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The ʻulema of al-Azhar University responses to structural secularization and the re-"Islamization" in 20th century Egypt
Supervisor: Clement Henry

Joseph Livingston (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Palestinian refugees in the diaspora [electronic resource] : a rethinking of attitudes on return
Supervisor: Clement Henry

William Newton (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), MFA Student, California College of the Arts
M.A. Thesis: Like all other nations, yet unlike all other nations: themes of heterotopia in Jewish literary conceptions of Israel
Supervisor: Karen Grumberg

Luke Peterson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Kidnapped: the discourse on Palestine in the contemporary United States
Supervisor: Kristen Brustad

Thomas Ryan (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Bullets, barriers, and bombs: an assessment of Israeli counterterrorism measures during the second Intifada
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Christopher Ulack (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Images of Cairo: urban representations and the city's lived experience in modern Egyptian literature
Supervisor: Samer Ali

Manuel Viedma (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The martyred party: the rise and fall of the Islamic Republican Party
Supervisors: Kamran Aghaie and Jason Brownlee

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Constance Bobroff (M.A., Persian)
M.A. Thesis: Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh's Rāh-āb nāmeh [electronic resource] : a pseudo-translation for a pseudo-text
Supervisor: M.R. Ghanoonparvar

Stanley Kerr (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: Relations between Jewish and Gentile believers in Jesus of Nazareth from John the Baptist to John Chrysostom
Supervisor: Aaron Bar-Adon

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Ryan Alsabagh (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), U.S. Government
M.A. Thesis: The strategic nature of suicide attacks in Iraq
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Philip Archer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Egypt's hydro-political policies in the eastern Nile basin
Supervisor: David Eaton

Christine Baker (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.A. Thesis: The 10th-century Isma'ili crisis of legitimacy: competing concepts of the Imamate and the deconstruction of Fatimid foundational narratives
Supervisor: Kamran Aghaie

Holly Blackwelder Carpenter (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Violin Instructor, Seattle, WA
M.A. Thesis: An alternative interpretation of The debate between the pen and the scissors (a Medieval debate style of writing by Shem Tov de Carrion)
Supervisor: Karen Grumberg

James Bland (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Hezbollah: terrorism and legitimacy
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur

Noelle Datillo (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Crossing boundaries: Arabic diglossia in three of Salwa Bakr's short stories
Supervisor: Keith Walters

Robert Wright Gee (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Memories of home: Palestinian narratives of the olive tree
Supervisor: Kamran Asdar Ali

Kinneret Israel (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Zionism and Jewish tourism in Israel
Supervisor: Kamran Asdar Ali

Elizabeth Lien (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; MPA, Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis:  Downstream voices: the Tigris/Euphrates dispute with emphasis on Syrian and Iraqi positions
Supervisor: David Eaton

Mikiya Koyagi (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Assistant Professor of History, New York University
M.A. Thesis: Creating future soldiers and mothers: gender and physical education in modern Iran, 1921-1941
Supervisor: Kamran Aghaie

Banafsheh Madaninejad (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Lecturer, Middlebury College
M.A. Thesis: Soroush's theory of Islamic religious pluralism
Supervisor: Clement Henry

Heather Rice (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Media text and public discourse in the Middle East: reactions to the Camp David summit
Supervisor: Karin Wilkins

Joanna Sellman (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Middle East Librarian, Ohio State University
M.A. Thesis: Testimonial narratives: Moroccan prison writing in the context of national reconciliation
Supervisor: Barbara Harlow

Rachel Shafer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
Professional Report: The efficacy of technical water programs in promoting cooperation among Palestinians and Israelis

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Anne Dehnisch (Ph.D., Hebrew)
Dissertation: The local iron age pottery from selected strata at Tel Yin'am, eastern lower Galilee, Israel
Supervisor: Harold Liebowitz

Teresa Keck (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The revival of Hebrew speech: from idea to realization

Dylan Oehler-Stricklin (Ph.D., Persian)
Dissertation: "And this I": the power of the individual in the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzâd
Supervisor: Michael Craig Hillmann

Harold Revelson (Ph.D., Hebrew), Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dissertation: Ontological Torah: an instrument of religious and social discourse
Supervisor: Aaron Bar-Adon 

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Samera Agha (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
Radio Sawa's reception in the Amman, Jordan: exploratory research into audience effects

Frank Clary (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Interpreting the concept of "rūḥ" in the Qur'ān

Megan Geissler (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Director of Student Programs, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
M.A. Thesis: Operation Hearts and Minds: an analysis and critique of military humanitarianism and the U.S. foreign policy during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Linda Gray (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The road to "Black September": Jordan's path to survival

Eric Hodachok (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism

Mark Hungerford (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.A., Journalism)
M.A. Thesis: Muslims and Christians in the news: a content analysis of four nations' newspapers

Matthew Johnson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Legal Associate, Jones Day
M.A. Thesis:  Beyond occupation [electronic resource] : political economy and the future of Syrian-Lebanese integration

David Kobs (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Terrorist support of the state: the al Qaeda network and failed states

Mani Mostofi (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Iran's bulldog edition: civil society and the disjuncture between theory and practice in Khatami's dialogue

Nahrain al-Mousawi (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Doctoral Candidate, UCLA
M.A. Thesis: The Diamond Pipeline: the emergence of West Africa in the consciousness of Lebanese novelists

Mika'il Petin (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The destiny of the progressives: a theory on progressive Islam, the U.S., and the Muslim world

Emilie Satterwhite (M.A. Middle Eastern Studies and Information Systems)
M.A. Thesis: Adult women's literacy in Morocco

Majid Shirali (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Democracy, leadership, and radical nationalism in the Middle East and Africa : the prime ministerships of Mohammad Mossadegh and Patrice Lumumba

Bretagne Studer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Formal and informal networks: women's organizing in Yemen

S. Bahji Sumpter (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Competing discourses on the September 12, 1980 coup in Turkey

Andrea Turpin (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Senior Program Officer, Council of American Overseas Research Centers
M.A. Thesis: After the occupation: the violence of reform in 19th century Lebanon

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

R. David Walker (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: Reconstruction of a universal edition for three tenth century recensions of Sefer Yetsiraha

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Shazia Ahmad (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The balāghah of the Koran according to its major themes 

Aja Bonsu (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The Sufi, the Islamist, and the exile: human rights dialogues in Sudan

Rachel Brown (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: American women's perceptions of Muslim women in the United States: a case study

Nidal Daraisah (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Participant Islamists in the Arab world: an examination of Islamist democratic activity

Mehmet Darakçıoğlu (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis: The United States foreign policy during the Cyprus crises of 1963 and 1967

Özgür Erciyes (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Ethnic awareness among the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Balkans prior to the Greek Independence: western historiography vs. reality

Jamie Etheridge (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), National Bank of Kuwait
M.A. Thesis: Diplomacy and discourse: the press and foreign affairs in the Saudi-U.S. case

Sarah Hasib (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; J.D., Law)
M.A. Thesis: State formation and gender policy in Iraq

Marjon Kamrani (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis: Gendered migrations: women's status and the refugee/asylee experience

Jennifer McCormack (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Rebels and scholars: Bedouin women and higher education in the Negev

Rachel Proctor May (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Educating Afghanistan: a new kind of development, or more of the same

Jill Nelson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: How journalists' worldviews influence their perception of the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Arwa Shobaki (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Allegiance and honor: women's rights in Jordan

Seth Sonnonstine (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Insurgency and Legitimacy

Edith Szanto (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Lecturer, The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
M.A. Thesis: Women's religious groups in Cairo

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Monica Yaniv (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: Out of the mists of history: the Jewish Khazers and their demographic impact on the formation of Ashkenazic Jewish communities

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Andrea Allen (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.A., Journalism)
M.A. Thesis: Identity via satellite: a case study of the Kurdish satellite station Medya TV

William Edmonds (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Housing the other: visual and verbal representations of the Alhambra

Rebecca Halpern (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Waves of Jewish fortune: Jewish-monarch relations in medieval Spain

Ariane Marion (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Family law and women's rights in Morocco

Cristina Ramirez (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Cultural representations of the Moorish and Jewish presence in Toledo, Spain

Elisabeth Scheiffer (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Alternative ideologies: the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Lebanese al-Kata'ib Phalangists in Lebanon, 1920-1950

Tarlan Useynov (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Social Maniacs Software Company, Almaty, Kazakhstan
M.A. Thesis: The character of societal linguistic diversities and their effect on the practice of the Qur'ān: the concept of Unity

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Ehud Mer (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: On repentance and Sefer Hasidim

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Sulafa Abou-Samra (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)                                                                    

M.A. Thesis: The rights of women in Post-Ottoman Syrian personal status law (Qanoun al-Ahwal al-Shakhsiah al-Souri)

Fahaad Alenezi (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The history of ʻAbbās Mīrza Qājār

Zachary Alpern (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Representations of conflict: newspaper coverage of Middle East in the 1990s 

Steven Berkowitz (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis: Prosecuting the war against terrorism: past counterterrorism policies and lessons learned

Brad Bowman (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Jerusalem in the imagination and architectural reality of Late Antiquity: a case study in the claim over sacred space

Loreto Catoira (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Verbal patterns in an Andalusi Arabic dialect: the case of the letter of Abenaboo and the letter of a captive

Saba Ghori (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis: The implementation of the Hudood ordinance and its effect on women in Pakistan

Allyson Goeken (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Women in Algeria and Tunisia: family law, education, labor, and politics

Christopher Hayes (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: An ontological study of Iblis al-Shaytan

David Shiao (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Mysticism and secularism: the intersection of religious and rational thought in the writings of Ziya Gokalp

Lauren Siebert (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Folklore, dance and national identity: the Reda Troupe of Egypt

Amy Siglock (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Women's status in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia: a demographic and theoretical analysis

Daniel Stein (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs)
M.A. Thesis: Texas-Mexico groundwater and global policy applications

David Wilson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The Eisenhower Doctrine and its implementation in Lebanon - 1958

Suzanne Yountchi (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Turkey's mercantile military and Iran's corporatist clerics: assessing the way that Turkey's military and Iran's clerics use economic institutions in their struggle for power

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Eric Berk (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: Tradition and transformation of the Agunah in Jewish thought and practice 

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Vitessa Del Prete (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Guardian spirits and the Jinn: the continuity of tradition from the first civilizations to the advent of Islam

Michael Dishman (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Mideast peace: conflict and compromise: a never-ending struggle

J. Brandon Gentry (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Helios Global
M.A. Thesis: Aden and the end of British Empire

Kristin Monroe (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
M.A. Thesis: Writing Morocco: relating author, epistemology, and subject

John Morgan (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Lost threads: thoughts toward a Berber historiography

Juan Romero (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Emerging military alliances in the Middle East: security or Pandora's box?

Clay Schouest (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Creating the cultural tour: photographs within Lonely Planet Turkey travel guides

Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.

Robin Branch (Ph.D., Hebrew)
Dissertation: Revealing strengths and weaknesses: how selected women in Samuel and Kings influence the Biblical text

Julie Danan (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: Between earth and heaven: Elijah the Prophet in Rabbinic literature

William McDonald (M.A., Hebrew)
M.A. Thesis: The Kingdom of Heaven in Rabbinic literature and the Gospel of Matthew

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies - M.A.

Michael Ammons (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)

M.A. Thesis: Forming the Gulf War Coalition: an examination of alliance dependence and burden sharing

Melissa Bolbecker (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Two Muslim concepts of existence: the intertwinings of habitat and identity

Andrea Christman (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.I.S., Information Systems), Technical Services and Systems Librarian, Sinclair Community College
M.A. Thesis: The Moroccan code of personal status and inheritance: theory and practice

Ismail Eris (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb: a discourse on the crafting of a Muslim state

Brenda Gazzar (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Journalist, Pasadena, California
M.A. Thesis: Karaites in the Israeli national media: a longitudinal study

Renée Goings (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Project Alpha: a search for peace in the Middle East

Nalan Gür (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Women and the Turkish state: the Directorate General on the status and problems of women

Coyt Hargus (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Theories of the Israelite occupation of the Land of Canaan

Steven Hyland (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Assistant Professor of History, Wingate University
M.A. Thesis: Meaning in the poet's belly : Hussein Abu Bakr al-Mehdar and change in the Hadramawt

Randa Jarrar (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Author and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, California State University, Fresno
M.A. Thesis: Womanhood, imprisonment, and (alie)nation in the works of Latifa al-Zayyat, Ahdaf Soueif, and Salwa Bakr

Margaret Luévano (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), International Exchange Advisor, UT-Austin
M.A. Thesis: The state of Palestine: a case for existence and legitimacy

Peter Lyon (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Syria and Lebanon in a changed Middle East: paradoxes and policy choices

Rika Muhl (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Arab American politics: an uphill struggle in a century of activism

Christopher Rose (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Owned by the right hand: the theory and practice of slavery in Islamic society

Curtis Stefferud (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The ethics of international negotiation: a case study of the Euphrates

David Wisyanski (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The origins, development, and evolution of the Jordan Arab Army