AM Theses

2019
Al-Thani, Amna. “Women’s Head Covering in Islam and Judaism.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Amarir, Sahar. “Minorities and the State: A Comparative Study of Variations in Levels of Internal Dissidence within Morocco and Jordan.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Dean, Joshua. “From Oslo to Taba: Was a Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ever Truly within Reach?Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Dhaliwal, Tara. “Javanmardi-e Fetyān: Spiritual Chivalry in Early Modern Iran.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Falk, Fridtjof. “The Americanization of European Foreign Policy vis-à-vis Iran: How the European Union Became Beholden to the United States’ Iran Policy.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Ghanem, Mariam. “So You Think You’re Empowering Women? A Critique of NGOs through Ethnographies of Female Breadwinners in Urban Cairo.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Glavine, Amber. “Homosexuality and Same-Sex Union in Islam: An Analysis of Contemporary Debates.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Lahoud, Suzie. “Khomeini’s Philosopher King: Examining the Philosophical Origins of Vilāyat-i Faqīh.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
McPherson-Smith, Oliver. “Institutional Change and Continuity in the Era of Mohammad bin Salman: A Case Study of the Solar Power Industry in Saudi Arabia.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
Norberg, Nicholas. “Constitutionalism in Modern Iraq, 1839-1958.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.
2018
Boots, Anna. “'The Boundaries of the Tunisian': Migration and Race in post-Revolution Tunisia.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Byg, Blaire. “Changing Nature, Shifting People: Point Four, Water Development, and U.S. Refugee Policy in the Jordan River Valley, 1949-1955.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Cord, Daniel. “The Date Palm and the Da'wa: Non-Religious Factors Favoring the Rise and Resiliency of the Saudi States.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Harb, Mohamad Khalil. “Escapism by Design: An Ethnography of Leisure-Consumption Architecture in Beirut .” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Hurwitz, Stephen. “United Nations Security Council Resolution 242: The Role of Ambiguity.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
McIndoe, Andrew. “UNIFL and the Changing Nature of Peacekeeping.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Quarantello, Kim. “Middle East Refugees in Lowell: A Case Study on Refugee Resettlement—'American foreign policy f***** up my country, but the United States gave me a new life'.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Sakayan, Mano. “Evangelizing in Eastern Anatolia: Historicizing the Rise and Early Work of the ABCFM's Harput Station.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Saleh, Mohamad. “Estrangement: Transience and Being in Modern Arabic Literature.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.
Sbitan, Jamil. “'Lubricating the Machines of the Western World': Knowledge and Subjectivity in Aramco's American Employee Handbooks (1950).” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2018.

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