Thesis Titles [2022-2013]

Master's Thesis Topics 2020-2021

• Mohamad Badran, "Give a little; Get More State Sponsored Charity as an Apparatus Toward Political Domination and the De-Islamization of Sadaqah (An Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Turkish AKP case study)" 
• Mahdi Blaine, "The Sherifian State: Colonial Endurances and Moroccan Statecraft"
• Zachary Gheen, "Accountability and Identity in the Palestinian-American and Appalachian Diasporas"
• Haniya Habib, "Framing Resistance: Photography and Spectatorship in Occupied Kashmir"
• Murtaza Khomusi, "The Creeping Cancer: American Laws for American Courts and Muslim American Representations in State Legislatures"
• Diana Kruzman, "Looking for Atlantis: The rise and rise of 'alternative history' in Egypt"
• Katie Mollette, "An Uneasy Union: Personhood and Unification in the Republic of Yemen"
• Shahrooz Nasir, "Money Migrations in the Hollow of Mecca"
• Tehreem Nihar, "Pakistan's Economic Development Under the Tutelage of the International Monetary Fund (1999-2019)"
• Erin O'Brien
• Rehma Saleem, "An American Muslim Discourse of an Exceptional Palestine"
• Gemma Sunnergren, "Opposites Attract: Political Opposition Societies and Coalitions in Bahrain"
• Fatima Tariq, "English as the New French: Nation-State Building and Language as Capital in Morocco"

• Jonathan "Jon" Ball, "If not now, when? How Judaic Studies got its start at SUNY Albany"
• Corinne Curtis, "Palestine, But Make it Queer: Decolonization and Transnational Exchange in Black and Palestinian Queer Activism"
• Moneeza Burney, "Mapping Creative Methodologies for Conflict Resolution Addressing Youth in Lebanon onto Pakistan"
• Meryem Uzumcu, "Memoir as Resistance: Social Engineering of National Visual Culture and Kurdish-Armenian Solidarity Responses in Diyarbakir, Turkey"
  
• Robin Noel Badone Jones, "A Role for the Left? The Historical Syrian Communist Opposition and the 2011 Revolution"
• Maya Yang, "Permanent Temporariness: Foreign Voices of the Gulf"
• Guy Evron Yadin, "'My Vile Cousin': The Ambivalences of Jewish-Arab Cousinhood"
  
• Kitaneh Fitzpatrick, "Persian Pop Princess: The Significance of Popular Cultural Icon Googoosh in the Iranian Social Imaginary"
• Sarah Blume, "Digital Documentation of the Syrian Conflict: Eyewitness Video as an Essential Documentary and Evidentiary Tool for Accountability"
• Ahmad Sahli, "The Neo-Colonial Taste for Authenticity in Elite Food Discourses"
  
• Lynette Hacopian, "Iraq-Jewish Oral History: A Tug of War Between Nationalist Narratives"
  
• Mateo Nelson, "Hope from the Ruins: In Germany, a Syrian Struggle for Justice and Memory"
  
• Sarah Mokh, "The Sacred Power of Obedience: the Ramifications of Taymiyyan Thought on Baraka"
  
• Holly Pickett, "Sudan's Revolutionary Women: Plotting the future in a time of uncertainty"
• Dounya Alami-Nassif, "The Etymology of Monstrosity: Frankenstein and the Middle East"
  
• Hajara Massood, "Peki’in, Israel: An Exploration of Minority Communities Among Minorities in Peki’in, Israel"

Master's Thesis Topics 2018-2019

• Janna Aladdin, "Arbitrating Iraq: Colonial Law and Rule in Mandate Iraq (1916-1932)"
  
• Grace Albright, "From Tagging to tag Heuer: The Commercialization of Street Art in Beirut"
  
• Afnan Al-Yafaey, "Am I an Authentic Khaliji: Exploring Locality in the context of GCC Museums and Cultural Institutions"
  
• Michael Joseph Ernst, "Maryama: A Tale of Disposession at the Limit of Translation"
  
• Courtney Graves, "Islands of Progress: Humanitarianism, Development, and The Near East Foundation"
  
• Gordiya Khademian, "Dushanbe 2017: National Belonging through Dance"
  
• Sarah Louden, "The Curious Relationship: An Inquiry into the Historiography of Early Black Nationalist Support for Zionism"
  
• Alexander Lee Matika, "The Posessed Postcolonial Body: Islamic Ritual Healing in the Sudan"
  
• Libby Perkowski, "Turkey's Gift to the World: An Analysis of Istanbul New Airport's National and Transnational Hegemonic Claims"
  
• Brian Plungis, "My Country is not Rich": Vizualizing Iranian Modernity in New Wave Cinema"
  
• Jessica Rohan, "As High As Hope"
  
• Saphe Shamoun, "The (Re)turn to Yasin al-Hafiz: Alternative Futures and The Project of Critique"
  
• Zuha Asif Siddqui, "Searching for Home: Afghan Refugees in Pakistan"
  
• Braden Younani, "The Decisive Goal: Qatari State Investment in European Football"
  
• Yi Zhang, "Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt: Political Implications, Media Interpretations, Economic Expansion"
  

• Rohan Advani, "Port Politics: A Political Economy of the Beirut Port in the Post-Civil War Period"
  
• Orubba Almansouri, "Yemeni Weddings: Processes of Ethical Formation"
  
• Adham Alok, "UD Aid and Syrian Nationalism: Chapter in Cold WAr History"
  
• Annabel Bruno, "Order, Legibility, and Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine"
  
• Miray Cakiroglu, "The Uses of Ancestors: Mobilizing the Tobm of Suleyman Shah"
  
• Jordan Daniels, "American Cotton Manufactures and the 19th Century Indian Ocean Market "
  
• Yasmeen Mobayed, "The State, the Media, and Moral Panic: The Criminalization of Syrian Refugees and the Securitization of Lebanon"
  
• Fatima Mohi-Eldin, "Subverting the Self: The Formation of National Subjectivities in Turkey through Psychological and Psychiatric Discourse's Displacement of Religious Belief as Behavior"
  
• Loubna Mrie, "From Uprising to Civil War: Narrating the Syrian Uprising fron NonViolent Revolution to a Militarized Conflict "
  
• Saba Naseem, "Politics of Exclusion and Securitization: How the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has become a Target of Anti-Terror Legislation in Pakistan"
  
• Isasc Oseas, "Anti-Communist Modernization and Turkey's Dependence on the West "
  
• Alisa Joyce Rudy, "Wilayat Sina': The Two States of Sinai"
  
• Ezel Sahinkaya, "Competitio and Contradition in Social Democracy in Turkey: An Analysis of the Republican People's Party's Approach to the Syrian Refugees"
• Jessica Salley, "Back to Ayia Marina: Finding Home and Making Peace in Divided Cyprus"
• Shandana Waheed, "From Present to Past, Through Cracks and Crevices, Palmpsest and ruination of architectural heritage in post-partition Pawalpindi"
• Michael Wilson, "Education Under Apartheid: A comparative Study of Racism and Reactionary Mobilization in Apartheid South Africa and Palestine/Israel"
   
  
  
  

• Nader Atassi, “Economic Thought During the NahdaL The Late Nineteenth-Century Writings of Al-Muqtataf”
• Bengu Ezgi Aydin, “"Hittite Turks": Re-Making of the Arab Alawite Minority of Turkey, Turkification Policies and the Question of Sanjak of Alexandretta”
• Emily Bader, “Anchoring a Sinking Ship: United States Aid to Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak”
• Peter Belfiore, “Gaming Politics: Technopolitics, Video Games, and Saudi Arabia”
• Paul Bielecki, “Nestorians and their Intellectual Achievements In Persia During Abbasid Dynasty 8th-10th Century: Christian-Muslim Relationship Case Study”
• Keith Collela, “Financial Disintegration: The Saudi Stock Exchange in the Middle East and Abroad”
• Jessica De Oliveira, “From Integration to Insubordination: Challenges to Cooperation and Coordination within the GCC”
• Nafisa Dhanani, “Countering Swara: Lessons from Approaches to the issue of Child Marriage”
• Zeynep Ekmekci, “Maras Massacre: Violence, the State and Citizenship”
• Mariam Elba, “Meditations on the Growth of Cairo: Luxury, Decay, and a New Cosmopolitanism in Al Rehab”
• Alex Kane, “Post, Share, Like, Arrest: The Israeli Surveillance State's Turn to Facebook”
• Aqsa Khalid, “Unveiling the Silence: Understanding the nationalist sentiments among the 1947 Partition survivors”
• Stephanie Kraver, “Palestinian Diary Writing: A Performance of Human Rights”
• Brian Lewis, “Homonationalist Representation, Discursive Elision and Queer Alterity: An Analysis of Contemporary Euro-American LGBT Representations of Iranian Trans Subjectivities”
• Soleiman Moustafa, “Political Cells of the Egyptian Prison”
• Colin Murtha, “Divine Gifts: An Examination of Ottoman Childhood in the Early-modern Period”
• Parisa Osmanovic, “The of Religious Observance in affecting the Financial Attitudes and Economic Behavior of American Muslims”
• Julian Phillips, “Missionary Educaiton in the American Century: The Changing Mission of the Tehran Community School, 1932-1980”
• Simone Rutkowitz, “Reading the UAE through Brownbook Magazine”
• Nadeen Shaker, “Egypt's Prison Nostrums: Why the Prison System is Broken”
• Kathryn Thornton, “Writing Against the Currents: Production of Alternative News at Dicle News Agency in Turkey”
• Jeremy Wheatley, “"Keep Snapping the Truth": Palestinian Countervisuality and the Limits of Resistance via Snapchat

• Sara Dima Abi Saab, "Beyond Death: How Reincarnation and Memory Reshape Kinship and Politics in Mount Lebanon"
• Karima Al-Absy, "Creating Symbolic "Facts on The Ground:" Manifestations of Palestinian Identity on the Football Field"
• Yasmine AlSayyad, "Documenting Egypt's Revolution: How the Egyptian Regime Managed to Bury the Truth about the Uprisings"
  
• Thalia Beaty, "Hungry for Justice: Seeking Accountability in Post-Authoritarian Tunisia"
• Jeff Eamon, "Policing the Bahrain Islands: Labor, Race, and the Historical Origins of Foreign Recruitment"
• Brooke Fisher, "Contentious Memories: Narrating the 1991 Uprisings in Iraq"
• Gina Hakim, "Tourism and Terrorism: Development Models and Dispossession in the Sinai"
• Shima Houshyar, "Mothers of Laleh Park: Motherhood, Citizenship, and Justice in Post-Green Movement Iran"
• Maham Javaid, "No Road to Waziristan: Stories of Civilians Caught Between Pakistan's Taliban, Military and Government"
  
• Hannah Lawrence, "Archiving al-Nakba: a Challenge or Testimonial to the 'Unitnessability' of Palestinian Refugees?"
• Adnan A. Moussa, "The Beirut-Dahiyeh Divide: Evoking Nostalgia and Amnesia in the Creation of an Exclusionary Capital"
• Anna Reumert, "Intimate Strangers: Practices of Syrian Refugees in Beirut"
  
• Keenan Wilder, "'Trying to be a Representative and a Policeman at the Same Time:' Explaining Labor Autonomy in Authoritarian Tunisia"
• Boya Xu, "Beyond Sino-GCC Economic Ties: The Poltics of Hui Muslims in China"

• Sara Afzal, "The Relations Between the Urban Spaces of A Tehran Apartment Complex and Alternative Youth Culture Formations"
• Margaretha Blignaut, "Casting Roma: the Production of Roma Subjectivity in Genetic Ancestry Research"
• Alex Boodrookas, "Food for Books: Grain Aid, Cold War Scholarship, and the Weaponization of American Research Libraries"
• Parisa Chavoshi, "Racializing Terror: Racial Bodies and Terrorist Populations in the Counter-Radicalization Encounter"
• Nathan Christensen, "Agrarian Transformation and Transnational Revolution in South Yemen"
• Matt Coogan, "The Struggle in Syria: Regime Consolidation and its Effects on Foreign Intervention, 1964-2014"
• Cevat Dargin, "Politics of Historiography and the De-Historicization of Kurdistan"
• Tom Finn, "Mothers of the Revolution: Yemeni Women in the Arab Revolt"
• Shirin Gerami, "Sex-in-Crisis: Framing Marital Sexual Problems in Iran"
• Matthew Greene, "Port Cities and the US War on Terror: The Cases of Dubai and Salalah"
• Gayatri Kumar, "A Tale of Two States: Non-Resident Indians and Narratives of Belonging in the Sultanate of Oman"
• Adam LoBue, "Neoliberalism as National Apocalypse in Egyptian Science Fiction: A Reading of Ahmed Khaled Towfik's Utopia"
• Molly Oringer, "Consuming the homeland: archaeological sites, luxury commodities, and diaspora tourism in Israel"
• Jackson Perry, "Planting the State: The FAO forestry division in mid-20th century Morocco"
• Emma Quail, "Sudanese Resistance in Egypt: Tracing Colonial Legacies of Race and Domination Through the UNHCR"
• Brooke Reynolds, "I'm Looking for Humans: Prison Hunger Strikes from Guantanamo Bay to Palestine"
• Elif Sari, "Suspended Lives: Law, Violence, and LGBTQ Asylum In Turkey"
• Eva Schreiner, "A City in Ruins: Neoliberalism, Heritage, and Securitization in Solidere's Downtown Beirut"
• Omer Shah, "Apprehending the Hajj"
• Simone Stemper, "No Borders in France: Contesting Humanitarian Norms in Calais"
• Sarah Yozzo, "Producing the Intifada: Security Narratives and Imagined Social Identities in Brooklyn"

• Arash Afghahi, "Re-narrating Resonance: Examining Common Literary Perceptions within Iranian Studies"
• Emma Alpert, "'Cinema Defends Life': The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Palestinian Filmaking "
• Ryah Aqel, "'They Destroy, I Rebuild': Dispossesion, Time, and Resistance in the South Hebron Hills"
• Mediha Belgemen, "'Nationalization of Woman's Emancipation': Re-reading the formation of the Republican Woman in Turkey with Reference to Islamist Feminist and Secular Feminist Approaches”
• Mohamed Khelil Bouarrouj, "The World as We Know It: America, Saudi Arabia and the Cultural Politics of the 1973 Oil Embargo"
• Tina Carter, "Rendering Visibility: How Activists are Fighting NYOD Surveillance & Restoring Muslims' Civil Rights in America"
• Katie Cella, "Bidoun: Statelessness in the United Arab Emirates"
• Eda Dogancay, "Islam as "National Cement": The Limits to AKP's Engagement with the Kurdish Question in Turkey"
• Katharine Forman, "Rooted in Memory: Imagining the Homeland in Palestinian Children's Literature"
• Laura Garland, "Faces of the Social Gospel: Visions of Gender and the Pioneering Impulse of the Arabian Mission, 1902-1913"
• Bayann Hamid, "From Mangalore to Fustat: Mobility and Family Dispersion in a Medieval Merchant Society"
• Fatima Malik, " Pedagogies of Progress: The Case of Rashidabad and the Pitflls of Development in Pakistan"
• Jared Malsin, "The Rights of the Martyrs: The Politics of Mourning in Revolutionary Egypt"
• Matt Pinas, "'All Cops Are Bastards': The Transformation of Egyptian Ultras from Football Fans to Revolutionaries"
• Cyrus Roedel, "Census, Map and Museum: Revisiting Nationality in Jordan"
• Sasha von Oldershausen, "For the Love of Farsi"