Thesis Titles

All of the following theses are available for students to look at in the Richard Ettinghausen Library. Students may check out a thesis but must leave their ID with the librarian and return it within 2 hours.

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Master's Thesis Topics 2022-2023

  • Peixian Wang, "Karbala’s Kaleidoscope: Rituals, Rumbles, and the Reshaping of Religious Authority"
  • Jonathan Adler, "'They wrote the Sinai project in ink, and we shall erase it with blood!': Refugee Resistance and UNRWA’s “New Programme” of Economic Development"
  • Everett Pruett, "Out With The New, In With The Old A Political Economy Analysis of Ras al-Khaimah’s Economic - Transformation from 2000 until the Present"
  • Aayzah Mirza, "“The Evolving Exotic: South Asian World Building at The Site of The Queens Museum (1939 - 2017)"
  • Amanda Taheri, "From Protests to Parties: Young Iranian Americans in New York City Creating Community"
  • Yara Hattab, "Searching For Identity In The Memory, The Photograph and The Camp" 
  • Lillian Avedian, "'Invisible Labor:' Two Years After War, The Displaced Women of Nagorno-Karabakh Are Rebuilding" 
  • Tess Waggoner, "Rose and (its) Thorn: Censor, Censure and Song"
  • Süleyman Kiroglu, "Rural-to-Urban Migrants, Local Roots, and Milli Görüş Politics in Istanbul (1973-1999)"
  • Eric Raimondi "From Jungle to Prison: Human Mobility and Carcerality in the Samos Closed Controlled Access Center in Greece"
  • Basil Alsubee, "Non Desertion // Anti Colonial Ideology, Cinema, and Infrastructure in Ba'thist Syria"
  • Pelin Senel, "Tweets are Cheese; Data is Grief An Auto-Ethnography on API-Scraping Earthquake Tweets in Turkish"
  • Hakan Sinar, "Uncovering Ahmet Cevdet's Legacy: A Fresh Perspective on the Tanzimat Era Through a Theological Lens" 
  • Mohiba Ahmed "The Agency in Accusing: Anatomizing Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s Anti-Blasphemy Project"
  • Sheen Atwa, "Freedom of Choice: Egyptians, Race, and Social Media Re-imaginations"

 

Master's Thesis Topics 2021-2022

  • Omar Andron, "Cyber Advocacy in the Middle East: Visual Conversation with the Cyberspace"
  • Leila Hassan Awad, "Lebanese Migration, Race, and Mexicanidad"
  • Fatoumata Bah, "The Asmawian Approach to Islamic Education & Revivalism"
  • Lina Barkawi, "Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Sociality"
  • Romaissaa Benzizoune, "Dounia is Here: A Few Short Stories of Existentialism and Diaspora"
  • Mehrdad Dariush, "The Carceral Terms of Sovereignty: A Reappraisal of Bryant" 
  • Dorsa Djalilzadeh, "Indulging in the Ambiguous: Embodied and Affective Archives of Survival in the Iranian Diaspora" 
  • Sarah Kayali, "Logics of Zakat: Trust, Mutual Aid, and Communal Interdependency in the United States"
  • Manal Zahid Khan, "Tripping in Karachi: Exploring the intersection of gender and its fluidity through Psychedelic Substances"
  • Eden Lumerman, "The Political-Economy of the Oslo Accords"
  • Anna Miller, "Brick by Brick: How Erdogan’s Megaprojects are Reconstructing Turkey"
  • Miriam Osman, "Far Afield from a Circumscribed Urban: Imperialism, Capitalism, and the Rural in the Development of Cairo, 1850-1880"
  • Timothy O'Shea, "Sustaining Hegemony Through Crisis: Rereading US Arms Exports to the Gulf" 
  • Samar Al-Saleh, "Britain’s Prison Labor Camps: Imperial-Zionist Class War Against Palestinian Men (1917-1948)"
  • Sahar Soleimany, "Getting Iran Right: How Ideologically Driven Assessments of the Islamic Republic of Iran Have Stymied U.S. Foreign Policy"
  • Lucie Taylor, "Building Identity: Revivalist Architecture in Egypt and India"
  • Ryan Zohar, "Isrāʾīl al-thāniyah: Mizrahi Thought and the Arab World, 1948-1982"
  • Mariam Enany, "On Rupture and Repair: Egyptian Rap Music and State Regulation in the Age of New Media"
  • Eleni Zaras, "Putting Down Roots: The Suez Canal Company and Botanical Acclimatization in Nineteenth Century Egypt"