Liana Brooks (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs) M.A. Thesis: The Israeli-Palestinian water conflict: managing the challenges of shared resources
Heather Ferguson (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Assistant Professor, Claremont College M.A. Thesis: Handicrafts, heritage, and history: rural weavers, urban elites, and the construction of cultural identity in Jordan
Alexa Firat (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Umm Saʻd by Ghassan Kanafani and Sudāsīyat al-ayyām al-sittah by Imil Habibi: two literary instances rise from the 1967 defeat
Chad Kia (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Modernity and sexuality in the world of Sâdeq Chubak's The patient stone
Lisa King (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Marketing identity: images of Iranian women as symbols of power
James Lindley (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs) M.A. Thesis: The process of development in Saudi Arabia and Egypt: the importance of science and technology transfer
Adrian McIntyre (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Making memories of antiquity: museums and the construction of history and identity in Jordan
Tarequ Rabbu (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Palestine and Arab nationalism during the interwar period
Lisa Raffonelli (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Asylum seeker, migrant, guest: politics of exclusion in Turkish refugee policy
Mehnaz Sahibzada (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Teacher, New Roads School M.A. Thesis: Islamic numerology: numerical symbols in cultural productions, ritual practices, and cosmological doctrines
Jonathan Wyrtzen (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) Associate Professor of Sociology and History, Yale University M.A. Thesis: Redemption and the religious worldview of the Jewish settlers of the West Bank
Gulsah Yildirim (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Woman patrons of Ottoman architectural endowments in Kadinlar Saltanati period (16th and 17th centuries)
David Ziegler (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: European security interests and the Greek-Turkish conflict: transforming old antagonists into an archetype of intercultural détente
1998
Department of Middle Eastern Studies - M.A. & Ph.D.
Robin Goodman (M.A., Hebrew) M.A. Thesis: The book of Job: structure and meaning
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Sherry Abdelaati (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Subversive spaces: a literary analysis of selected works by Ṛadwá ʻĀshūr and Alīfah Rifʻat
Janice Curreri (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Keeping the peace: the Palestine police force, decolonization and nationalism, 1918-1939
Avner Ever-Zohar (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Attitudes towards the Holocaust and sexuality as a defining trait: the Sabras character in Israeli culture
Durriya Ghadiali (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Forty years of female rule in medieval Yemen: illuminating the reign of al-Sayyida bint Ahmed al-Sulayhi (d. 532/1137)
Joshua Goodman (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Keeping the flame: Holocaust survivors and America
Amy Mills (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Assistant Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina M.A. Thesis: Modernity and public health in Cairo: environmental sanitation in the greater Cairo wastewater project
Michael Riddle (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.P.A., Public Affairs) Professional Report: Squatter housing and the Cankaya Municipality of Ankara, Turkey: efforts at urban transformation
Paul Schemm (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies; M.A., Journalism) M.A. Thesis: Resistance and popular culture in Egypt
Katrinka Somdahl (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: Towards an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue over water: the negotiations of 1991-1995
Scott Worrall (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies) M.A. Thesis: An examination of the linkage of discipline and the Egyptian cadaster