Graduate Students

Mahmoud Al-Thabata is a researcher of international law, political economy, and Arab and Palestinian diplomatic history in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies’ concurrent AM program. His research examines Palestine and the broader Global South in the...

Erin Dickerson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 2026, majoring in Middle Eastern studies with a concentration in Turkish and a minor in political science. She is a Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) recipient, Foreign Language and...

Alreem Alghafri is a master’s student in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University. Her research interests focus on the political economy of the Gulf and the region’s transition toward knowledge economies in a post-oil future, particularly through...