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Middle East Studies Center
MA Theses
MA Theses
MA students are currently researching the following topics within the center:
The Making of Modern Egyptian Men by Passant Darwish
The Impact of legal militarization on the armament of non-state actors by Namat Abulebada
The Story of food subsidies in Egypt. What is it and what are the policy and political contexts in which the story unfolds? by Ahmed El Blassy
Roots of the Failure of Democratic Transition in the Middle East by Bassant Mohamed
Recently Completed
Waqf in Transition: Tracing Local Institutional Change during the British Mandate in Palestine by Zackary Keith Murray, Spring 2022
No masses without Muslims’ approval” The Crisis of Building and Restoring Churches in Egypt: Three Case Studies from El-Minya Governorate by Sara Shaltout, Fall 2021
The Social and Economic Impact of the IMF Policies Post Arab-Spring in t he Middle East by Noha Nafie, Fall 2021
Beirut/The Other side of the City: The Impact of Visual Texture Production of the Lebanese Postmemory Generation, 1989 - Present by Mohamed Gameel, Spring 2021
Vision Redux: Power and Policy in Saudi Arabia by Ross Douglas Kimm, Fall 2021
Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema by Claire Elizabeth Begbie, Spring 2019
The Vertical Integration of Youth in United Nations Peacebuilding: Exploring Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone and Lebanon by Jessie Ellen Steinhauer, Fall 2018
Nonviolent Jihad: An Immanent Critique by John Charles Roedel, Fall 2018
The Druze-Maronite sectarian clash in the War of the Mountain (1983-1984): The resilience of mid-nineteenth century Maronite-Druze enmities in the Druze collective memory and its impact on the dynamics and consequences of Harb Al Jabal by Lara Moenes Mikhail, Fall 2018
Surviving ISIS: Life-Stories of Yazidi Women by Marian Rizkalla, Fall 2018
Cross-Mediterranean Egyptian Migrants: A Discursive Analysis by Sara Hussein, Fall 2018