As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

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Theses from 2024

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A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America, Aliaa Dawoud

Theses from 2023

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Writing as Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari

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A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann

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Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Abraham Silberstein

Theses from 2022

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“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

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When Saeed Betrays Fuad: Laughing at the Mechanized Occupation, Ezgi Demirors

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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever

Theses from 2020

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Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein

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Did the Muslim Ban Cause Islamophobia? Institutional versus Individual Prejudice, Emma Handte

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The Truman Administration and Zionist Legitimation Strategies to Achieve Statehood, Gianna Meier

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An Analysis of Women and Terrorism: Perpetrators, Victims, Both?, Elizabeth Lauren Miller

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Closing the Chasm: Al-Fārābī on Islam and Politics, Onur F. Muftugil

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The Piety Movement in an American Suburb: The Experiences of Women of the Islamic Circle of North America on Staten Island, Aisha Raheel

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Paper House: The Revolution, the Disappeared, and the Historicity of Lebanon, Elsa Saade

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Devotional Literature of the Prophet Muhammad in South Asia, Zahra F. Syed

Theses from 2019

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Death of the Caliphate: Reconfiguring Ali Abd al-Raziq’s Ideas and Legacy, Arooj Alam

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The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio

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Conceptions of Modern Egyptian Childhood During the Period of the “Liberal Experiment” in Egypt, 1922–1952: A Comparative Study of Taha Hussein’s, “An Egyptian Childhood,” and Sayyid Qutb’s, “A Child from the Village”, Nora Elgabalawy

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The Room with a View: Fatwas, Space, and Ritual in Contemporary Mecca, Nesrien Hamid

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Comparative Analysis of Al-Ard by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory, Rana Hassan

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The Forgotten Comrades: Leftist Women, Palestinians, and the Jordanian Communist Party, 1936–1957, Fadi H. Kafeety

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Remaking of a Modern Islamic Turkey, Ayҫa Korkutan

Theses from 2018

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The New Veil: A Fundamentally Modern Phenomenon, Hassan Mortada

Theses from 2017

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Leftist Militant Songs and War of Position in Lebanon (1975-1977), Mohamad J. Hodeib

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Is There a Secular Tradition? On Treason, Government, and Truth, Ali M. Uğurlu

Theses from 2016

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Perspectives on Iraq's Past, Present, and Future in the Works of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Amnah Almukhtar

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The Modernity of Tradition: Abraham Shalom Yahuda on Freud's "Moses and Monotheism", Ilan M. Benattar

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Mobilizing for Capitalism: How Islamic Civil Society Makes a Market Economy Possible in Turkey, Dean G. Schafer

Theses from 2015

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Corruptions, Imitations, and Innovations: Tropes of Ibn Taymiyya's Polemics, Faris Al Ahmad

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Adonis' Poetics of Vision and Modernity, Rasha Arabi

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Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment, Robert Joseph Bell

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The Spark That Lit the Flame: The Creation, Deployment, and Deconstruction of the Story of Mohammed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Ann Cummings

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The World Bank, Amartya Sen and Cultural Heritage as Development in Jordan, Mark Guarnaccia

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"Young Men of the Stones": Gendering the First Palestinian Intifada, Karen Lauria

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Poetry And The Arab Spring, George A. Simon

Theses from 2014

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Latinas Converting to Islam in New York: Habitus’ influence in modern identity formation, Amalia Alonzo

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The Role of Water in the Rise, Prominence, and Decline of Nabataean Petra, Dennis Cummins

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Integration or Interrogation? Franco-Maghrebi Rap and Hip-Hop Culture in Marseille, Jenna Catherine Daley

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Saudi Aramco and the Politics of Cultural Heritage, Anahid Hanounik Huth

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Performing Modernity in Turkey: Conflicts of Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Köçek Dancer, Brittany Giselle Haynes

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Finance and Empire: 'Gentlemanly Capitalism' in Britain's Occupation of Egypt, Jared Paul Iacolucci

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From Backlash To Mobilization: Muslim American Prayer Spaces In Post-9/11 New York, George E. Melissinos

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An Examination of Western Representation of the Muslim Brotherhood Through Various Media Outlets, Popular Literature and How has Recent History and Outside Influences Affected the Viewpoint Presented to the Public?, Lynn Andrew Perkins

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Sentiment and Geopolitics in the formulation and realization of the Balfour Declaration, Janko Scepanovic

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Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood, Ian Henry VanderMeulen