Research
The Middle East Studies Center supports research, teaching, and outreach across a range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish and strengthen relations between the Middle East Studies Center and other leading Middle East Studies centers/universities through joint research projects, conferences.
Middle East Studies Program MA Students Research Topics
- 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
- 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
- Fount: AUC Research