Theses from 2024
A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America, Aliaa Dawoud
Language Play and Racial Dysphemism in the Marrakchi Language Space, Spencer Fausel
Theses from 2023
Writing as Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari
A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann
Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Abraham Silberstein
Theses from 2022
“The People are Tired, and Just Want to Have Fun”: Mahraganat Music and the Struggle for Sonic Presence in Post-2013 Egypt, Mohammed Elfeky
Theses from 2021
When Saeed Betrays Fuad: Laughing at the Mechanized Occupation, Ezgi Demirors
Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever
Theses from 2020
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Did the Muslim Ban Cause Islamophobia? Institutional versus Individual Prejudice, Emma Handte
The Truman Administration and Zionist Legitimation Strategies to Achieve Statehood, Gianna Meier
An Analysis of Women and Terrorism: Perpetrators, Victims, Both?, Elizabeth Lauren Miller
Closing the Chasm: Al-Fārābī on Islam and Politics, Onur F. Muftugil
The Piety Movement in an American Suburb: The Experiences of Women of the Islamic Circle of North America on Staten Island, Aisha Raheel
Paper House: The Revolution, the Disappeared, and the Historicity of Lebanon, Elsa Saade
Devotional Literature of the Prophet Muhammad in South Asia, Zahra F. Syed
Theses from 2019
Death of the Caliphate: Reconfiguring Ali Abd al-Raziq’s Ideas and Legacy, Arooj Alam
The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio
The Room with a View: Fatwas, Space, and Ritual in Contemporary Mecca, Nesrien Hamid
The Forgotten Comrades: Leftist Women, Palestinians, and the Jordanian Communist Party, 1936–1957, Fadi H. Kafeety
Remaking of a Modern Islamic Turkey, Ayҫa Korkutan
Theses from 2018
The New Veil: A Fundamentally Modern Phenomenon, Hassan Mortada
Theses from 2017
Leftist Militant Songs and War of Position in Lebanon (1975-1977), Mohamad J. Hodeib
Is There a Secular Tradition? On Treason, Government, and Truth, Ali M. Uğurlu
Theses from 2016
Perspectives on Iraq's Past, Present, and Future in the Works of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Amnah Almukhtar
The Modernity of Tradition: Abraham Shalom Yahuda on Freud's "Moses and Monotheism", Ilan M. Benattar
Mobilizing for Capitalism: How Islamic Civil Society Makes a Market Economy Possible in Turkey, Dean G. Schafer
Theses from 2015
Corruptions, Imitations, and Innovations: Tropes of Ibn Taymiyya's Polemics, Faris Al Ahmad
Adonis' Poetics of Vision and Modernity, Rasha Arabi
Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment, Robert Joseph Bell
The Spark That Lit the Flame: The Creation, Deployment, and Deconstruction of the Story of Mohammed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Ann Cummings
The World Bank, Amartya Sen and Cultural Heritage as Development in Jordan, Mark Guarnaccia
"Young Men of the Stones": Gendering the First Palestinian Intifada, Karen Lauria
Poetry And The Arab Spring, George A. Simon
Theses from 2014
Latinas Converting to Islam in New York: Habitus’ influence in modern identity formation, Amalia Alonzo
The Role of Water in the Rise, Prominence, and Decline of Nabataean Petra, Dennis Cummins
Integration or Interrogation? Franco-Maghrebi Rap and Hip-Hop Culture in Marseille, Jenna Catherine Daley
Saudi Aramco and the Politics of Cultural Heritage, Anahid Hanounik Huth
Performing Modernity in Turkey: Conflicts of Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Köçek Dancer, Brittany Giselle Haynes
Finance and Empire: 'Gentlemanly Capitalism' in Britain's Occupation of Egypt, Jared Paul Iacolucci
From Backlash To Mobilization: Muslim American Prayer Spaces In Post-9/11 New York, George E. Melissinos
Sentiment and Geopolitics in the formulation and realization of the Balfour Declaration, Janko Scepanovic
Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood, Ian Henry VanderMeulen