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List of Recent Theses

2008–09

  • Policing Palestine, 1917–1937: British Structures of 'Law and Order' and Their Uneven Impact on Jewish and Arab Communities" (Alex Winder)
  • Migrant Workers in 'Enclave' Industrial Camps in the Arab Gulf States (Thanavon Pamranon)
  • Exporting Iran's Islamic Revolution: Case Studies in Lebanon and Iraq (Pouya Alimagham)
  • Quasi-States and Contentious Civil Societies: Explaining Rates of Contestation between Civil Society Organizations and the Palestinian Authority, 1994–2006 (Aaron Wenner)
  • Renegotiating the Public Sphere: Gender and Class in Modern Morocco (Emmaline Gayk)
  • An Oral History: The Kuwaiti Community in India in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's (Rasha Al-Duwaisan)

2007

  • Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: A Social Movement Alternative to the National Democratic Party?
  • Truth In Search of Power: Wahhabism and the Development of a New Islamic Orthodoxy
  • The Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS): At the Crossroads Between Science and Society
  • The Internet in the Middle East: Lessons for Arab Children
  • The Marginal Situation of Underprivileged Urban Youth in Contemporary Tehran
  • Middle Eastern Authoritarianism: Political Islam and the West
  • Iranian Involvement with Iraq Since the Fall of Saddam: A Policy Analysis
  • Powering and Empowering the Provincial Capital: Electricity, Street Lighting and Citizenship in Late Ottoman Damascus
  • The Monarchy and Women's Human Rights: the 2004 Mudawwana and the Process of Family Law Reform in Morocco
  • Federalism and National Unity: A Look at the Principle of Federalism Through the 2005 Permanent Constitution of Iraq and the "Law of Specific Executive Procedures Formation of Regions"
2006
  • New Geographies of Resistance: Urban Protest in the Seef District in Bahrain
  • Anonymity and Identity: A Reorderning of Citizenship Rights by Female Heads of Households in Cairo
  • The Stars and Stripes in the Sublime Porte: America in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire
  • Turkey in to the EU: Past Challenges and Future Prospects
  • Miracle or Mirage: An Assessment of the Dubai Model of Economic Development
  • Transcending Boundaries: Jewish and Muslim Shared Saint Veneration in Morocco
  • The Female Body and Patriarchal Resistance in Modern Arabic Literature: A Study of Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Woman at Point Zero, Voices, The Tent and The Story of Zahra
  • The New Hijab? Negotiating Tradition and Identity Through Dress: Fieldwork Among Muslim Women in the Greater Boston Area

2005
  • Innocents Abroad: American Tourists, Travel Narratives, the Middle East and U.S Foreign Policy in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • From Usama Ibn Munqidh to Usama Bin Laden: Islamic Rememberings of the Crusades
  • Public Health and Colonialism in 1920's Morocco
  • Al-Kawakibi's Thesis and Its Echoes in the Modern and Contemporary Arab World: Arabism, Islamism, Secularism, and Beyond Ideologization
  • Who Muted the Libyan? A Research Agenda for the Libyan Colonial Period: 1911-1943
  • Writing History from Memory: How Memory Narratives Become History in Jenin Refugee Camp
  • Economic Diversification in the Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and UAE
  • The Organization of Law, the Organization of Space and Subjects' Experience of Justice and Imperial Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1566
2004
  • Nationalism and Interpretations of the Past in Qajar Iran
  • A Critical Analysis of the Revolutionary Ideology of 'Ali Shari'ati
  • Journey to Paterson, New Jersey: An Introductory Exploration of Visual Culture and Palestinian Americans
  • Turkey's Problem in Terms of Attracting Foreign Direct Investment
  • Three Explanations of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
  • Rabin: Hero of Israel. The Formation of Yitzhak Rabin's Legacy