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 the 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