#  Congratulations, CMES Graduates 2018-19! 

 





June 20, 2019

 

 

 CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of eighteen students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students.

 **AM Graduates and Thesis Titles**

- **Hamad Al-Hajri**
- **Oula Alrifai**—*Thesis: The Self-Flagellation of a Nation: Assad, Iran, and Regime Survival in Syria* | *Advisor: Nicholas Boylston*
- **Amna Al-Thani**—*Thesis: Women’s Head Covering in Islam & Judaism* | *Advisor: Afsaneh Najmabadi*
- **Sahar Amarir**—*Thesis: Minorities and the state: A Comparative Study of Variations in Levels of Internal Dissidence Within Morocco and Jordan* **|** Advisor: Tarek Masoud
- **Joshua Dean**—*Thesis: From Oslo to Taba: Was a Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ever truly within reach?* | *Advisor: Sara Roy*
- **Tara Dhaliwal**—*Thesis: Javanmardi-e Fetyān: Spiritual Chivalry in Early Modern Iran* | *Advisor: Sheida Dayani*
- **Fridtjof Falk**—*Thesis: The Americanization of European Foreign Policy vis-à-vis Iran: How the European Union Became Beholden to the United States’ Iran Policy*  | *Advisor: Payam Mohseni*
- **Mariam Ghanem** —*Thesis: So You Think You’re Empowering Women? A Critique of NGOs Through Ethnographies of Female Breadwinners in Urban Cairo*  | *Advisor: Steve Caton*
- **Amber Glavine**—*Thesis: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Union in Islam: An Analysis of Contemporary Debates\** | *Advisor: Nicholas Boylston*
- **Colleen Hegarty**
- **Suzie Lahoud**—*Thesis: Khomeini’s Philosopher King: Examining the Philosophical Origins of Vilāyat-i Faqīh\** | *Advisor: Khaled El-Rouayheb*
- **Oliver McPherson-Smith**—*Thesis: Institutional Change and Continuity in the Era of Mohammad bin Salman: A Case Study of the Solar Power Industry in Saudi Arabia* | *Advisors: Kristin Fabbe & Meghan O’Sullivan*
- **Nicholas Norberg**—*Thesis: Constitutionalism in Modern Iraq, 1839-1958* | *Advisor: Phillip Walker*
- **Grace O’Brien** *(AB/AM)*
- **Ellen Stockert**
- **Steven Wickman**

 *\*Winners of the thesis prize*

 **PhD Graduates and Dissertation Titles**

- **Efe Balikcioglu**—Dissertation: “A Coherence of Incoherences: Graeco-Arabic Philosophy and the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Synthesis of Philosophy with Sharia” | Advisor: Cemal Kafadar
- **Han Hsien Liew** —Dissertation: “Piety, Knowledge, and Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzī’s Ameliorative Politics” | Advisor: Roy Mottahedeh

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