MA Theses

MA students are currently researching the following topics within the center:

• The emergence of state's gazette in the Ottoman and Egypt in the early 19th century: Takvim-i Vekayi (تقویم وقایع) and al-Waqā’i‘ al-Miṣriyyah (الوقائع المصريّة) by Abdul Halim Bohari

Recently Completed 

• Lebanon needs food, water, medicine and social media By Elisabeth Croese, Summer 2023
• Repress or Defect: Military Defection in Syria in 1982 and 2011by Namat Abulebada, Spring 2023
• 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, Spring 2023
• Determinants of Democratic Regression: The Case of Tunisia by Bassant Ahmed Mohamed, Fall 2023
• 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