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Fall 2024

The 1919 Young Phoenicians and Their Legitimization of Lebanese Nationalism

Effects of the ‘Survey Land’ Classification on Illegal Outpost Growth in the West Bank

Colonial Echoes and Modern Reconstructions: Reconstructing Moroccan Jewishness

Street Art in Amman

Spring 2024

The Sandhurst Connection: Why Every Middle Eastern Leader Wants to Attend the
Same Academy

Systemic Sexual Violence as Terrorism: The Conditions Under Which it is Employed

Women’s Rights and Change in Iran: An Interview with Roya Hakakian

Negotiating Arabic: Diglossic Language and Intercultural Proficiency in
American Education

Fall 2023

Iranian Cultural Diplomacy in Armenia

The Rights of Muslim Women Then vs. Now

An Interview with Dr. David Patel

The Effects of the 1915 Genocide on Armenian National Identity

An Investigation into Islamic Metaphysical Theory and How it Pertains to Psychological Treatment

Spring 2022

Politicized Identities, The Intersection of Violence and Advocacy in the PLO

Jewish incorporation into Iraqi politics and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Representations of women were central to the consolidation of the revolutionary state

Winter 2021

Understanding Differences In Climate Change Negotiation Commitments and Follow Through

Democratic Transition in Post-Arab Spring Egypt and Tunisia

Art and the Arab Spring: An interview with Sultan Al Qassemi

Cultural Convivencia between Jews and Muslims of Umayyad Iberia

How the U.S.-Saudi Coalition has Shot Itself in the Foot


Spring 2020

Religious Tourism in Saudi Arabia and the Commercialization of the Hajj to Mecca

Facebook Walls and Separation Barriers: Palestinian Solidarity, Israeli Intervention, and the Construction of an Online Geography

Technology and Jordan's Future: an Interview with Karim Kawar

Drought of Manhood: Normalizing Male Infertility in Lebanon


Spring 2019

The Youth's Contribution to Civil Society and Democracy in MENA

Poetic Propaganda: Al Qaeda's Acapella Anthems in Yemen and Beyond

Photos of Saudi Arabia’s Archaeological Wonders

Fishy Business: Assessing Egypt's Growing Aquaculture Sector

The Art of Speaking: Oral Storytelling Among Syrians in Jordan

Fall 2018

An interview with Hanan Ashrawi

Amazigh Curators: Women's Role in Maintaining Morocco's Berber Culture

Photos from New Askar refugee camp

Foundations of Freedom: Democratic Endurance and Failure in Israel and Turkey

Unfinished Identities: Expressions of Cosmopolitanism in Levantine Literature

Black Gold Under the Black Flag: How Oil fueled ISIS

Winter 2017

Trita Parsi Interview

Noah Feldman Interview

Pictures of Assyrian Christian Refugees in Iraq

Airlines as Instruments of Nationalist Expression

Syrian Migration Impact on Water Demand in Jordan

Spring 2017

Nizar Fares Interview

Darwish's Vision of Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence

Pictures of Pehlwani in Dubai

Ottoman Empire in Turkish Political Discourse

Puppeteers in Syria

Middle Eastern Impact on Western Music

Fall 2016

Shadi Hamid Interview

Syrian Television and Political Criticism

Portraits of Jordanian Life

Dubai Shopping Festival

Ethnic Conflict in Sunni Islam

Spring 2016

Joshua Landis Interview

Hamas and Islamic Jihad

Foreign Intervention in Civil War

Cultural Traditions in Oman

Humanitarian Response to Syria

Samarkand Book Review

Fall 2015

Islam in Modern Turkey

Charles Glass Interview

Democracy in Libya and Tunisia

HIV/AIDS Policy in Morocco

Evolution of Salafism

Spring 2015

Souqs of the Arabian Gulf

Charles Butterworth Interview

Syria's Cycle of Trauma

1973 Oil Embargo

US Intelligence Failure Pre-Iranian Revolution

The Islam of Sayyid Qutb

Fall 2014

Prince Turki Interview

Cosmopolitanism in Dubai

Mosques in the Middle East and Europe

Turkey's Involvement in Africa

Picturing the Iranian Woman

Spring 2014

Reconstructing Afghanistan's Education and Health System

Rentier State Theory: Saudi Arabia

Finding Hope in Palestine

Oil and Arab Democracy

Yemen's Groundwater Crisis

Fall 2013

Baghdad College

The Confessional Model and Secretarian Politics: Iraq

Journey to Morocco

Popular and State Islam in Morocco

Turkey's Eastward Gaze

Spring 2013

Jack Shaheen Interview

China's Uyghurs

The Durability of Diversity

The Alhambra

Architecture in Baghdad

The Endurance of Muhammad Abduh

Fall 2012

Naif al-Mutawa Interview

The Absence of Women in Democratization in Iraq

Snapshots from Iran

A Perspective on Working in Iraq

The Voice of Ashraq Deghani in 1970s Iran

The Crisis of Jewish-Israeli Identity

Spring 2012

The Truth about Bahrain

The Ingredients for the Arab Spring

Iraq Accountability: U.S. Troop Withdrawal

The Kurdish Spring

The Innocence of Palestinian Hope

Family Planning in Morocco

Nation-Building and Sexuality: Venereal Disease in Semi-Colonial Egypt

Fall 2011

Al-Jazeera and Democratization

21st Century Revolutionaries

Lebanon, Syria, and Hezbollah

Through the Eyes of Syrian Refugees

The Chechen Fiasco: Democratic Reform Process in Russia

Islamic Egypt and the US Agency of International Development

Architecture, Social Welfare, and Cultural Pluralism: Islamic Identity

Spring 2011

The People's Egypt

Scenes from Tahrir

Democracy and Deliberation

The Community of Masouleh, Iran

Pragmatism in the Islamic Periphery: Al-Andalus, India, Ottoman Empire

Minai Ceramics

Help or Hinderance? Religion's Effects on Social Development

Fall 2010

The Islamic Resistance Movement: Theological Argument of Hamas

Reform Sustainability and Regime Legitimacy: Iranian Political Reform

The People of the Silk

"Not Always on a Camel, Also on the BMW."

The Failure of Arab Nationalism

The Vernaculars of Arabic

My Uncle, The Major-General of Algeria

Spring 2010

The Islamic Feminism Question: Feminism in Iran

iCopts: The Digital Diaspora

Islam in Modern Turkey

Qat

Trade and Empire: The Royal Navy, Iran, and the Persian Gulf

King's Academy

The Challenge of Education in Turkey

Fall 2009

The Imperial Ego: The Suleymaniye Kulliye

The Manipulation of a State: Clan Politics in Uzbekistan

The Hezbollah-Israeli War of 2006

Symbols of Jordan Identity

The Mythologizing of Saladin

Middle Eastern Youth and the Death of Arab Governments

Spring 2009

The ICM and Islamist Politics in Kuwait

Education Reform and the Demographic Crisis in Saudi Arabia

Saddam's Chemical War: Iraqi Attack on Halabja During the Iran-Iraq War

Social Justice in the Islamic Hadith

The Forgotten Faces of Yemen

Beyond the Pyramids in Cairo

From the Ummah to the Watan: Shi'a Politicization in Lebanon and Kuwait

Mediating in Islamic France: Role of Conseil Francais du Musulman

The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy in Somalia: Hard vs. Soft Power

Expatriates and Kuwaiti Cultural Identity

Life on the Morocco-Algeria Border

Understanding Our 'Exit Strategy' in Afghanistan

Fall 2008

Turkey at Crossroads: Impediments to Turkey's EU Candidacy

Turkey's Democratic Dilemma: Treatment of the Kurds

Internet as a Source of Political Change in Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Iranian Women

Women and Islam

British Intervention in Kuwait in 1961

The Facade of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh's Hospital in Cairo

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