Recent (1999-2001) Doctoral Degrees
in Middle East Studies
Prepared by Harald Leusmann

Reprinted from the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Winter  2001 (with changes in orthography to HTML standards).
Copyright 2001 by the Middle East Studies Association of North America

Ed. Note: Canadian and US Dissertation titles are available online by subscription only at Dissertation Abstracts Online (© 2000 & 2001, UMI Company. All Rights Reserved) at http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway. Foreign titles were collected unsystematically and are incomplete. Please help us by informing us about dissertations completed outside of Canada and the US.
Abdel-Rahim, Fouad Moh'd. “Graphic Elements in Family Drawings by American and Jordanian Children: A Comparative Study.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999. AAT 9944782

Abdulhadi, Rabab Ibrahim. “Palestinianness in a Comparative Perspective: Inclusionary Resistance, Exclusionary Citizenship.” Yale University, 2000. AAT 9973635

Abu Bader, Suleiman Hassan. “An Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Israel with Emphasis on the Peace Process in the Middle East and the Arab Boycott.” Cornell University, 1999. AAT 9939965

Abu-Ghaida, Dina Naim. “Family Background and Labor Market Outcomes in Jordan and Egypt.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9999325

Acikel, Fethi. “The Twilight of ‘The Holy Articulation’: Nationalism, Capitalism and Islam Authoritarian Strategies of Nation Building and Capitalist Modernization in Turkey.” University of Essex (UK), 2000. Not Available from UMI

Adams, Karen Ruth. “State Survival and State Death: International and Technological Contexts.” University of California, Berkeley, 2000. AAT 3001740

Adhami, Sima. “Manager Value Orientations in Iranian State-Run and Private Sectors.” United States International University, 1999. AAT 9927324

Aggestam, Karin Ingalill. “Reframing and Resolving Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, 1988―1998.” Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Aghaie, Kamran Scot. “Husayn and Zaynab: Models for Social and Political Movements in Modern Iran.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. Not available from UMI

Aghatehrani, Morteza. “Khajah Nasir al-Din Tusi on the Meta-Mysticism of Ibn Sina (al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah Ibn Sina).” State University of New York, Binghamton, 2000. AAT 9958505

Aguiar, Marian Ida. “Tracking Modernity: Writing the Rails of Empire (Senegal, Turkey, India, Pakistan).” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000. AAT 9988761

Ahmad, Saiyad Nizamuddin. “Fatwas of Condemnation: Islam and the Limits of Dissent.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9972732

Ahmed, Hiba. “Three Essays on Water Service: A Case Study of the Residential Sector of Cairo.” Michigan State University, 2000. AAT 3000502

Ahmed, Mohammed Shahab. “The Satanic Verses Incident in the Memory of the Early Muslim Community: An Analysis of the Early Riwayahs and Their Isnads.” Princeton University, 1999. AAT 9944624

Akgun, Birol. “Explaining the Turkish Vote: Partisanship, Ideology and Economic Factors in Electoral Choice.” Case Western Reserve University, 2000. AAT 9996299

Akman, Ayhan M. “Modernist National Identity and its Demise: Politics and Cartoons in Turkey (1930-present).” University of Chicago, 1999. AAT 9934021

Alaedini, Pooya. “Industrialization in Iran: From Investment to Capability Orientation.” State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 2000. AAT 9973263

Alameddine, Mohamad A. “Etat, Societe et Conditionnalite: La Reforme Economique en Egypte (1975-1997).” Universite de Montreal (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ53287

Aldikacti, Gul Muhsine. “Framing, Culture, and Social Movements: A Comparison of Feminist and Islamist Women's Movements in Turkey.” University of Pennsylvania, 2001. AAT 3003586

Al-Anezi, Khaled H. “Factors Influencing Chief Editors' News Selection in Kuwait Television and Kuwait Radio.” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2000. AAT 9982029

Al-Bakhit, Mohammad Ziad S. “The Political Economy of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Jordan.” Claremont Graduate University, 2000. AAT 9987686

Al-Hosini, Shaheen Abdullah. “The Utilization of the World Wide Web for Decision-Making in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Business Settings: The Case of Dubai.” Florida State University, 2000. AAT 9973230

Al-Jubeir, Nawal Ahmed. “Deutsche Woerter Arabischen Ursprungs: Eine Kulturhistorisch-Linguistische Studie des Einflusses von Arabisch auf Deutsch Zwischen, 700-1200.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9987667

Al-Mohahannadi, Hassan L. “The Victim’s Role in the Islamic Justice Process: A Comparative Study.” University of Southampton (United Kingdom), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Al-Saaidi, Faiza Ahmed H. “Academic Achievement: Case Studies of a Group of Yemeni Women.” Oregon State University, 2000. AAT 9994963

Al-Saawi, Mohammad A. “Women’s Status, Fertility and Family Planning in two Islamic Countries: A Comparative Study of the Republic of Yemen and Indonesia.” Kansas State University, 2001. AAT 3013081

Al-Sadoun, Mohammed T. “A Contextual Analysis of Contemporary Iraqi Art Using Six Case Studies.” Ohio State University, 1999. AAT 9931557

Al-Samman, Hanadi. “Diasporic Na(rra)tions: Arab Women Rewriting Exile.” Indiana University, 2000. AAT 9981025

Al-Shayeb, Abdulrahman M. “The Emergence of the United Arab Emirates Official Securities Market.” University of Essex (United Kingdom), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Al-Taee, Nasser. “The Sultan’s Seraglio: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century Viennese ‘Turkish’ Music.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9939016

Allen, Phillip C. “The Last Despot: Ethnic Consciousness, Power Politics, and the Orthodox Church in Late Ottoman Syria.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9962001

Allgood, John William. “Britain’s Final Decade in South Arabia: Aden, the Federation and the Struggle Against Arab Nationalism.” University of Texas, Austin, 1999. AAT 9947158

Almohsen, Mohsen A. “An Exploratory Study of the Views of Modernization of Educated Saudi Women.” University of Pittsburgh, 2000. AAT 9974400

Alomar, Mohammed Abdulrahman. “History, Theory and Belief: A Conceptual Study of the Traditional Mosque in Islamic Architecture.” Pennsylvania State University, 2000. AAT 9966761

Alseweed, Mohammed Ali. “The Effects of Proficiency and Training on the Word-Solving Strategies of Arab EFL Readers.” University of Essex (United Kingdom), 2000. Not Available from UMI

Angrist, Michele Lee. “Political Parties and Regime Formation in the Middle East: Turkish Democratization in Comparative Perspective.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9981547

Anninos, Sophia C. “Creating the Market: An Examination of Privatization Policies in Kazakstan and Egypt.” New York University, 2000. AAT 9970864

Aoyagi, Takahiro. “Maqam Rast: Intervallic Ordering, Pitch Hierarchy, Performance, and Perception of a Melodic Mode in Arab Music.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. AAT 9998959

Armajani, Jon Mehrdad. “Islamic Thought in the West: Sacred Texts, Islamic History, and Visions of Islam in a Transnational Age.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999. AAT 9956147

Armour, Heather. “Empowering Women through Rural Gender Development: An Evaluation of the Near East Foundation’s Modular Approach in Southern Morocco.” University of Oregon, 2000. AAT 1400403

Ayad, Yasser. “Landscape Ecological Analysis of the Northwestern Arid Coast of Egypt: Case Study of Burg El-Arab/El-Hammam Area.” Universite de Montreal (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ52136

Azzoni, Annalisa. “The Private Life of Women in Persian Egypt.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2001. AAT 9993216

Ba-Ubaid, Ali Yeslam. “Environment, Ethics, and Design: An Inquiry into the Ethical Underpinnings for a Contemporary Muslim Environmentalism and Its Environmental Design Implications.” University of Pennsylvania, 1999. AAT 9953502

Baban, Feyzi. “Public Sphere, National Identity and Globalization: Reflections on Turkey’s Uneasy Modernization.” Carleton University (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ42784

Bachelani, Najma Begum. “Mobilization and Electoral Success: Ideological Parties in Jordan, 1989-1993.” University of Michigan, 1999. AAT 9929779

Baer, Marc David. “Honored by the Glory of Islam: The Ottoman State, Non-Muslims, and Conversion to Islam in Late Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Rumelia.” University of Chicago, 2001. AAT 3006473

Bain, Alexandra. “The Late Ottoman ‘En'am-i serif’: Sacred Text and Images in an Islamic Prayer Book.” University of Victoria (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ37329

Bakhos, Carol. “Abraham’s Marginalized Descendant: Rabbinic Portrayals of Ishmael.” Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2000. AAT 9975939

Barbe, Philippe Alexis Constant. “Poetic Readings of Space: Duras, Djebar and Khatibi.” Northwestern University, 1999. AAT 9953239

Batarfi, Khaled M. “Analysis of News Coverage Patterns of Middle East Conflicts.” University of Oregon, 1999. AAT 9948015

Batchelor, Robert Kinnaird, Jr. “The European Aristocratic Imaginary and the Eastern Paradise: Europe, Islam and China, 1100-1780.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9917258

Baum, Matthew A. “Tabloid Wars: The Mass Media, Public Opinion and the Use of Force Abroad.” University of California, San Diego, 2000. AAT 9984292

Becker, Cynthia Jeanne. “Arts, Gender and Changing Constructions of Amazigh (Berber) Identity: The Ait Khabbash of Southeastern Morocco, 1930-1999.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000. AAT 9982216

Belev, Boyan Nedialkov. “Forcing Freedom: Political Control of Privatization and Economic Opening in Egypt and Tunisia.” Columbia University, 1999. AAT 9930683

Belhachmi, Zakia. “Al-Sa'dawi’s and Mernissi’s Feminist Knowledge with/in the History, Education and Science of the Arab-Islamic Culture.” Universite de Montreal (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ52127

Belhedi, Nejib. “The Impact of Privatization and Economic Restructuring on Employment Relations: The Tunisian Experience.” Michigan State University, 2001. AAT 3009084

Bennett, Marjorie Anne. “Reincarnation, Marriage, and Memory: Negotiating Sectarian Identity Among the Druze of Syria.” University of Arizona, 1999. AAT 9946871

Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell. “Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq, 1808-1941.” Yale University, 1999. AAT 9954275

Blake, Roxanna Kristen. “The Cold War Along the Inner Asian Frontier: Iran, 1945-1963.” Harvard University, 1999. AAT 9949733

Bone, Harry J. “The Administration of Umayyad Syria: The Evidence of the Copper Coins.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9981633

Boussofara-Omar, Naima. “Arabic Diglossic Switching in Tunisia: An Application of Myers-Scotton’s MLF Model.” University of Texas, Austin, 1999. AAT 9947180

Boustani, Anthony Joseph. “The Significance and Implications of Arab Summitry with Respect to Arab Politics.” Harvard University, 2001. AAT 3011324

Box, Laura Chakravarty. “A Body of Words: Strategies of Resistance in the Dramatic Texts of North African Women.” University of Hawaii, 2000. AAT 9990232

Boyle, Helen Nolan. “Quranic Schools in Morocco: Agents of Preservation and Change.” University of Pittsburgh, 2000. AAT 9985009

Brodeur, Patrice Claude. “From an Islamic Heresiography to an Islamic History of Religions: Modern Arab Muslim Literature on ‘Religious Others’ with Special Reference to Three Egyptian Authors (Muhammad Abu Zahrah, Ahmad Shalabi, Abdallah Diraz).” Harvard University, 1999. AAT 9949719

Browers, Michaelle Lynn. “The Politics of Translation: Civil Society’s Travels and Travails in Arab Political Thought.” University of Minnesota, 2001. AAT 3008670

Brozyna, Jerzy Marek. “The Incense Route: A Study of its Origin and Development.” San Jose State University, 1999. AAT 1394508

Bullock, Katherine Helen. “The Politics of the Veil.” University of Toronto (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ41116

Burton, Jonathan H. “‘Turn’d Turk’: Islam and English drama, 1579-1624.” City University of New York, 1999. AAT 9946147

Butko, Thomas John. “Revolution or Revelation: A Gramscian Approach to the Rise of Political Islam in Palestine.” University of Alberta (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ46813

Canbakal, Saffet Hulya. “'Ayntab at the End of the Seventeenth Century: A Study of Notables and Urban Politics.” Harvard University, 1999. Not Available from UMI

Cappellini, Silvia Maria. “The ‘Voyage d’Oultre Mer’ by Bertrandon de la Broquiere (1432-1433): An Enlightened Journey in the World of the Levant (Followed by a New Critical Edition of this Text).” Johns Hopkins University, 2000. AAT 9950496

Carter, Sandra Gayle. “Moroccan Cinema: What Moroccan Cinema?” University of Texas, Austin, 1999. AAT 9959465

Catalano, Roberto Favacchio. “Mediterranean World-Music: Experiencing Sicilian-Arab Sound.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9943817

Chalcraft, John Terrell. “The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914.” New York University, 2001. AAT 9997443

Chase, Anthony. “Islam and Human Rights: Clashing Normative Orders?” Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), 2000. AAT 9974796

Cheng, Jack. “Assyrian Music as Represented and Representations of Assyrian Music.” Harvard University, 2001. AAT 3011345

Chorin, Ethan Daniel. “Von Clausewitz Meets Sea-Air: Examining the Link Between Internal Transportation Infrastructure, Transshipment and Income Growth in the Republic of Yemen.” University of California, Berkeley, 2000. AAT 3001792

Citino, Nathan John. “Eisenhower, King Sa`ud, and the Politics of Arab Nationalism: United States-Saudi Relations, 1952-1960.” Ohio State University, 1999. AAT 9941304

Citrin, Ruth F. “The Politics of Protest: Palestinian Nationalism and Student Mobilization in the West Bank and Gaza.” Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), 1999. AAT 9927330

Clark, James Dee. “The History of the Iranian Province of Azerbaijan, 1848-1914.” University of Texas, Austin, 1999. AAT 9959471

Cline, Lawrence Elliot. “Islamic Insurgencies: A Comparative Study.” State University of New York, Buffalo, 2000. AAT 9967795

Cohen, Shana Rebecca. “Waiting for a Different Future: Market Reform and the Transformation of the Middle Class in Morocco.” University of California, Berkeley, 2000. AAT 9979590

Coker, Elizabeth Marie. “The Making of the Egyptian Psychiatric Patient: Reinterpreting Cultural Symbols Through Biomedical Discourse.” Case Western Reserve University, 2001. AAT 3001097

Collins, John Martin. “Children of the Stones: The Intifada, Popular Memory, and the ‘Generation’ of Palestinian Nationalism.” University of Minnesota, 2000. AAT 9966215

Conway-Long, Don. “Dreadfully Changing: The Pressures of Mutability on Men and Masculinities in Morocco.” Washington University, 2000. AAT 9986649

Cook, Bradley James. “Egyptian Higher Education: Inconsistent Cognitions.” University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 1999. AAT 9950861

Cooper, Alanna Esther. “Negotiating Identity in the Context of Diaspora, Dispersion and Reunion: The Bukharan Jews and Jewish Peoplehood.” Boston University, 2000. AAT 9974122

Cousins, Andrew Leonard. “Ideology and Biomedicine in the Palestinian West Bank.” Emory University, 2000. AAT 9982456

Cox, Wayne Stephen. “A Crisis ‘in’ Conflict for International Relations: The Case of the Turkish/Kurdish War through Neogramscian Lenses.” Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ52815

Craver, Anne Dempsey. “The Persistence of Vision in Andree Chedid's Poetry.” Washington University, 2000. AAT 9986650

Cullen, Heidi Marie. “The North Atlantic and the Middle East: Investigating Climate Dynamics and Variability in a Water Scarce Region.” Columbia Unviersity, 2000. AAT 9970177

Culver, Jonathan Edwin. “The Ishmael Promises in the Light of God's Mission: Christian and Muslim Reflections.” Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission, 2000. AAT 3001277

Dakake, Maria Massi. “Loyalty, Love and Faith: Defining the Boundaries of the Early Shi'ite Community.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9957092

Da'na, Seifdeen Nathmy. “The Political Economy and Ecology of Water: A Contribution to Rewrite the History of the Arab-Israeli Struggle.” Kansas State University, 2000. AAT 9984864

Dardary, Abdul Mawjoud Rageh. “Cultural Alterity, Euro-Centrism, and Islamism: Travel Literature and the Construction of Misr/Egypt.” University of Pittsburgh, 2000. AAT 9996532

Daryaee, Touraj. “The Fall of the Sasanian Empire and the End of Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change in the Province of Persis.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9939004

Davis, Rebekah C. Beatty. “Development as a Tool of Diplomacy: The Domestic Models for United States Policy in the Jordan River Valley, 1939-1956.” Georgetown University, 1999. AAT 9961624

Deniz, Fuat. “The Odyssey of a Minority: Maintenance and Transformation of Ethnic Identity in Response to Processes of Modernization—The Assyrian Case.” Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), 1999. Not available from UMI

Deutsch, Jeffrey Bryan. “The Problem of ‘Rabid Tigers’: Why Did Saddam Hussein Invade and Occupy Kuwait?” George Mason University, 1999. AAT 9912664

DiCarlo, Lisa. “Migration and Identity Among Black Sea Turks.” Brown University, 2001. AAT 3006713

Diop-Sidibe, Nafissatou. “Domestic Violence Against Women in Egypt: Risk Factors and Health Outcomes of Wife-Beating.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2001. AAT 3006227

Duany, Julia Aker. “Sudanese Women and Education: The Struggle for Equal Access and Participation.” Indiana University, 1999. AAT 9962705

Dunne, Michele Durocher. “Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9987156

Durac, Vincent Gabriel. “Islamic Modernism in Contemporary Egypt: An Evaluation.” Queen’s University, Belfast (Northern Ireland), 2000. Not Available from UMI

Dvorkin, Julia Elyachar. “Egyptian Workshop, Global Enterprise: Visions of Economy and Urban Life in Cairo, 1900-1996.” Harvard University, 1999. Not available from UMI.

Edelen, Annamarie Amy. “The Muslim Brotherhood and Their Quiet Revolution.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999. AAT 9927290

Edelstein, Monica D. “Zar Spirit Possession among Ethiopian Jews in Israel: Discourses and Performances in Religious Identity, Psychiatry, and Public Culture.” Tulane University, 2001. AAT 3010977

Elbeshbishi, Amal Nagah. “Evaluating the World Bank’s Role in Supporting Structural Adjustment in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Egypt.” Fordham University, 2000. AAT 9955961

ElGarrai, Omer A. “Problems and Prospects of Human Rights Education in Arab Islamic Region: Egypt as a Case Study.” Ohio University, 2000. AAT 9996414

el-Khoury, Laura Geries Odeh. “Variations in the Tendencies Toward Cultural Normalization among the Palestinians Living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the Peace Process.” Kansas State University, 1999. AAT 9942670

el-Nawawy, Mohammed. “The Role of Western Correspondents and News in the Resolution of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Reporting from Egypt and Israel.” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1999. AAT 9944437

Elsaadany, Kamel Abdelbadie. “A Study of the Literary Discourse in the Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: The Dynamics of Gender and Religion.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999. AAT 9944844

Elverskog, Liljana. “Verb Morphology in Educated Spoken Arabic.” Indiana University, 1999. AAT 9932633

Engel, Liba Hannah. “The Pedagogy of Janusz Korczak in the Hadera Democratic School: Early Twentieth-Century Reform in Modern Israel.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999. AAT 9939697

Ennahid, Said. “Political Economy and Settlement Systems of Medieval Northern Morocco: An Archaeological-Historical Approach.” Arizona State University, 2001. AAT 3004107

Ergut, Ferdan. “State and Social Control: The Police in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Turkey, 1839-1939.” New School for Social Research, 2000. AAT 9980028

Ergut, Tomris Elvan. “Making a National Architecture: Architecture and the Nation-State in Early Republican Turkey.” SUNY, Binghamton, 1999. AAT 9915992

Ertem, Bayan Gonul. “Dancing to Modernity: Cultural Politics of Cherkess Nationhood in the Heartland of Turkey.” University of Texas, Austin, 2000. AAT 9992784

Esshak, Hashem Ali Abdul-Rahman. “Designing of Housing Complexes in Arabic Countries, especially in Yemen.” Politechnika Wroclawska (Poland), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Fabos, Anita Hausermann. “Ambiguous Ethnicity: Propriety (adab) as a Situational Boundary Marker for Northern Sudanese in Cairo.” Boston University, 1999. AAT 9933965

Faier, Elizabeth Anne. “Improvising Modernity: Organizations, Gender, and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel.” Indiana University, 1999. AAT 9962706

Farah, Laila A. “Storying Our Daily Lives: Lebanese and Palestinian Women Narrate the Performance of Survival, Resistance, and Cultural Membership.” Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1999. AAT 9925860

Farah, Randa Rafiq. “Popular Memory and Reconstructions of Palestinian Identity: Al-Baq'a Refugee Camp, Jordan.” University of Toronto (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ41149

Fast, Kerry Louane. “Seeing through Western Eyes: A Study of Three Women’s Holy Land Travel Narratives (Harriet Martineau, Ida Pfeiffer, Austria, Amy Fullerton).” University of Manitoba (Canada), 1999. AAT MQ45043

Folaron, Deborah Anne. “The Heritage of Maghreb Theatre.”SUNY, Binghamton, 1999. Not Available from UMI

Fooladi, Marjaneh Moindarbari. “An Ethnographic Study of Gender-Conscious Nursing Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” University of Southern Mississippi, 2000. Not Available from UMI

Forte, Tania Ruth. “On the Making of Village: Transactions, Land and Histories in the Galilee.” The University of Chicago, 2000. AAT 9965078

Frederickson, Yahya. “The Yemen Journals.” University of North Dakota, 1999. AAT 9956010

Freeman, Kevin Scott. Water “Politics and National Security in the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin.” University of Alabama, 2000. AAT 9966690

Frishkopf, Michael Aaron. “Sufism, Ritual, and Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9926364

Funk, Nathan Chesley. “Theory and Practice of Track-Two Diplomacy: Impact and Dynamics of the Search for Common Ground in the Middle East Initiative.” The American University, 2000. AAT 9983661

Furnish, Timothy Rhea. “Eschatology as Politics, Eschatology as Theory: Modern Sunni Arab Mahdism in Historical Perspective.” Ohio State University, 2001. AAT 3011060

Gaipo-Mrabet, Juliana. “The Nature and Impact of the Stereotyping of Arabs in American Society: Recognizing Arab Perspectives.” University of Virginia, 2001. AAT 9987185

Gesink, Indira Falk. “Beyond Modernisms: Opposition and Negotiation in the Azhar Reform Debate in Egypt, 1870-1911.” Washington University, 2000. AAT 3001550

Ghanbarpour-Dizboni, Ali. “Islam and War: The Disparity Between the Technological-Normative Evolution of Modern War and the Doctrine of Jihad.” Universite de Montreal (Canada), 2001. AAT NQ56474

Ghattas, Mohamed S. “Balance Through Resistance: The Novels of Tawfiq al-Hakim.” Oklahoma State University, 2000. AAT 9979164

Good, Irene Lee. “The Ecology of Exchange: Textiles from Shahr-i Sokhta, Eastern Iran.” University of Pennsylvania, 1999. AAT 9953538

Gottreich, Emily Ruth. “Jewish Space in the Moroccan City: A History of the Mellah of Marrakech, 1550-1930.” Harvard University, 1999. AAT 9935799

Grehan, James Paul. “Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Damascus.” University of Texas, Austin, 1999. AAT 9959494

Gualtieri, Sarah. “Making the Mahjar Home: The Construction of Syrian Ethnicity in the United States, 1870-1930.” University of Chicago, 2000. AAT 9965083

Hadler, Jeffrey Alan. “Places Like Home: Islam, Matriliny, and the History of Family in Minangkabau.” Cornell University, 2000. AAT 9967462

Haj-Hasan, Zina. “Interactional Style in Political Discourse: The Case of Two Arab Leaders.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9978119

Halabi, Yakub S. “Capitalism versus Islam: The Political Implications of Free Market
Reforms in Egypt, 1987-1999.” University of Denver, 2001. AAT 3010914

Hamadeh, Shirine. “The City’s Pleasures: Architectural Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. Not Available from UMI

Hamid, Mohamed Elsammani. “Containing Political Instability and Shaping Multicultural Diversity in a Federal Arrangement: The Case of the Sudan.” University of Mississippi, 1999. AAT 9965346

Hamil, Mustapha. “Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post-Colonial (Moroccan) Novel.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000. AAT 9971088

Hasanpoor, Jafar. “A Study of European, Persian and Arabic Loans in Standard Sorani.” Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), 1999. Not available from UMI

Hennigan, Peter Charles. “The Birth of a Legal Institution: The Formation of the waqf in Third Century A.H. Hanafi Legal Discourse.” Cornell University, 1999. AAT 9927400

Herrera, Linda Ann. “The Sanctity of the School: New Islamic Education and Modern Egypt.” Columbia University, 2000. AAT 9970204

Hevelone-Harper, Jennifer Lee. “Letters to the Great Old Man: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9957099

Higgins, Annie Campbell. “The Qur'anic Exchange of the Self in the Poetry of Shurat (Khariji) Political Identity, 37-132 A.H./657-750 A.D.” University of Chicago, 2001. AAT 9997166

Hilloowala, Franak. “An Analysis of Ibn Abi Usaybi`ah’s ‘Uyun al-anba' fi tabaqat al-atibba’.” University of Arizona, 2000AAT 9965868

Hirschkind, Charles Kendal. “Technologies of Islamic Piety: Cassette-Sermons and the Ethics of Listening.” The Johns Hopkins University. AAT 9950536

Hoffman, Katherine E. “The Place of Language: Song, Talk and Land in Southwestern Morocco.” Columbia University, 2000. AAT 9956358

Holberg, Amelia Sharon. “Exhibiting Jewishness: Contemporary Jewish Identity, History, and Visual Art.” University of California, Berkeley, 2000. AAT 9979658

Hosseini, Hassan. “Continuity and Change in the United Nations Security Council: Resolutions of the Two Persian Gulf Conflicts: 1980-1998.” Howard University, 1999. AAT 9928733

Hudson, Leila Olga. “Cultural Capital: Wealth and Values in late Ottoman Damascus.” University of Michigan, 1999. AAT 9959786

Hughes, Aaron William. “Philosophy’s Mythos: Aesthetics, the Imagination, and the Philosophical Novel in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought.” Indiana University, 2000. AAT 9993589

Hunter Haruach, Miri. “The Queen of Sheba: An Ancient Woman for Modern Times.” California Institute of Integral Studies, 1999. AAT 9955005

Ibrahim, Ibtisam. “Israel’s ‘Ethnic Project’ in the City of Shafa-Amr: Particularization of Identity Along Religious Lines.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000. AAT 9996869

Idris, Amir Hassan. “Reconstituting Sudan’s Civil War: Slavery, Race and Formation of Identities.” Queen’s University, Kingston (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ54419

Jabali, Fu'ad. “A Study of the Companions of the Prophet: Geographical Distribution and Political Alignments.” McGill University (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ55342

Jaffe, Naomi. “Children’s Drawings as Political Commentary: The Peace Processes in Israel.” Columbia University Teachers College, 2000. AAT 9976730

Jaffray, Angela. “At the Threshold of Philosophy: A Study of al-Farabi’s Introductory Works on Logic.” Harvard University, 2000. AAT 9972482

Jarrow, Judith F. “The Feminine Literary Voices in Tunisia (1955-1975) and the Growth of Emancipation.” University of Utah, 1999. AAT 9946490

Jasem, Abdulsalam S. “Relationships Between Social, Academic, and Environmental Obstacles and Perception of Students’ Attitudes Toward Physical Exercise in the United Arab Emirates Secondary Schools.” Indiana University, 2000. AAT 9962775

Jendia, Catherine. “The Sudanese Conflict, 1969-1983: The Role of Leadership in the Resumption of Civil Conflict Between the People of Southern Sudan and the Government of Sudan.” Gonzaga University, 1999. AAT 9946929

Kadi, Osama. “Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment: The Arab World Case.” Eastern Michigan University, 1999. AAT 1395738

Kaldjian, Paul Jeremy. “Urban Food Security and Contemporary Istanbul: Gardens, Bazaars and the Countryside.” University of Arizona, 2000. AAT 9972091

Kapil, Arun. “Liberalization and the Question of Democracy in Algeria, 1979-1992.” University of Chicago, 1999. AAT 9934073

Kaplan, Eran. “Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its European Origins, 1920―1937.” Brandeis University, 2001. AAT 3004963

Karaomerlioglu, Mehmet Asim. “The Cult of the Peasant: Ideology and Practice, Turkey, 1930―1946.” Ohio State University, 1999. AAT 9919875

Kaufman, Asher. Reviving Phoenicia: “The Search for an Identity in Lebanon.” Brandeis University, 2000. AAT 9967589

Kenan, Orna. “Between History and Memory. Israeli Historiography of the Holocaust: The Period of ‘Gestation,’ from the Mid-1940s to the Eichmann Trial in 1961.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2000AAT 9973204

Kern, Karen M. “The Prohibition of Sunni-Shi'i Marriages in the Ottoman Empire: A Study of Ideologies.” Columbia University, 1999. AAT 9916888

Kezer, Zeynep. “The Making of a National Capital: Ideology and Socio-Spatial Practices in Early Republican Ankara.” University of California, Berkeley, 1999. AAT 9966434

Khalafallah, Haifaa Genidi. “Rethinking Islamic Law: Genesis and Evolution in the Islamic Legal Method and Structures: The Case of a 20th Century 'Alim’s Journey into his Legal Traditions.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9978122

Khan, Saira. “Nuclear Proliferation in Protracted Conflict Regions: A Comparative Study of South Asia and the Middle East.” McGill University (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ55346

Khattab, Abdul-Qader Abdullah. “Encountering the Non-Western Other in Lawrence Durrell's ‘The Alexandria Quartet.’” Ohio University, 1999. AAT 9923667

Khoury, Khalil. “The Amman Financial Market: Institutional Features and Calandar Effects (Jordan).” Concordia University (Canada), 2000. AAT MQ54303

Kreidie, Lina Haddad. “Deciphering the Construals of Islamic Fundamentalists.” University of California, Irvine, 2000. AAT 9988280

Kugle, Scott Alan. “In Search of the Center: Authenticity, Reform and Critique in Early Modern Islamic Sainthood.” Duke University, 2000. AAT 9997693

Lamnadi, Ahmed El Madkour. “Communication Policymaking and Electronic Media in Morocco: The Introduction of Private Television.” Ohio University, 1999. AAT 9956775

Lamoreaux, John Christopher. “Dream Interpretation in the Early Medieval Near East.” Duke University, 1999. AAT 9928838

Latif, Sahibzada Amer. “An Analytical Study of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) as an Insurgent Movement.” Catholic University of America, 1999. AAT 9946917

LaTowsky, Robert James. “Community Experiences of Rural Transformation in Egypt, 1960-1980.” State University of New York, Binghamton, 2000. AAT 9970008

Lattouf, Mirna. “The History of Women’s Higher Education in Modern Lebanon and its Social Implications.” University of Arizona, 1999. AAT 9927452

Lehmann, Paul Wesley. “Where is the Trust? A Study of Kabuli Afghan Male Friendship.” Biola University, 1999. AAT 9946373

LeVine, Mark Andrew. “Overthrowing Geography, Re-Imagining Identities: A History of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1880 to the Present.” New York University, 1999. AAT 9930226

Lichtenstein, Loren Michaels. “‘Perception, and Identity Construction Between Borders’: Normalization Within the Context of Egyptian Tourism to Israel.” University of Connecticut, 1999. AAT 9926263

Littlefield, Sharon E. “The Object in the Gift: Embassies of Jahangir and Shah Abbas.” University of Minnesota, 1999. AAT 9946989

Lombardi, Clark Benner. “State Law as Islamic Law in Modern Egypt: The Amendment of Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution and the Article 2 Jurisprudence of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.” Columbia University, 2001. AAT 3005755

Long, Jerry Mark. “The Politics of Religion and the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991.” Baylor University, 2001. AAT 3002551

Long, William. “A Critical Analysis of Muslim Reappraisals of Traditional Islamic Christology: An Inquiry into Sufism, the Amadiyah and Other Selected Models.” Queen’s University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Lootah, Hessah Abdullah. “Unveiling the Mask: Representation of Women on Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Television.” Ohio University, 1999. AAT 9956776

Lotfalian, Mazyar. “Technoscientific Identities: Muslims and the Culture of Curiosity.” Rice University, 1999. AAT 9928555

Lucas, Russell E. “Institutions and Regime Survival Strategies: Collective Action and Path Dependence in Jordan.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9986295

Maghraoui, Driss Sidi. “Moroccan Colonial Troops: History, Memory, and the Culture of French Colonialism.” University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000. AAT 3003205

Magno, Cathryn Susan. “Gender and Democracy: Exploring the Growth of Political Capital in Women’s NGOs in Israel.” Columbia University, 2000. AAT 9970236

Mahdavi-Izadi, Farid. “A New Perspective on True Islam: A Conceptual Foundation of Ali Shari`ati’s Thoughts and Views on the Role of the Iranian Enlightened Thinkers.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000. AAT 9972790

Makkawi, Ibrahim Awad. “Collective Identity Development and Related Social Psychological Factors Among Palestinian Student Activists in the Israeli Universities.” Kent State University, 1999. AAT 9963717

Maktabi, Anas. “The Representation of Islam and Muslims in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania. AAT 3002450

Malekahmadi, Farshad. “The Sociological Intersection of Religion, Law, Politics in Iran: Judicial Review and Political Control in the Islamic Republic.” State University of New York, Stonybrook, 1999. AAT 9942040

Malki, Ahmed. “Arabic Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval Via Natural Language Processing.” New Mexico State University, 2001. AAT 3008943

Mansour, Iskandar. “The Unpredictability of the Past: Turath and Hermeneutics.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2000. AAT 9973177

Masroori, Cyrus. “The Conceptual Foundations of Radical Political Action in Modern Iran.” University of California, Riverside, 1999. AAT 9944678

Mattson, Ingrid. “A Believing Slave is Better Than an Unbeliever: Status and Community in Early Islamic Society and Law.” University of Chicago, 1999. AAT 9951814

McCue, Helen Patricia. “Modes of Production and Gender Negotiation in the Muslim Middle East from Ancient to Modern Times.” University of New South Wales (Australia), 1999. Not available from UMI

McGregor, Andrew James. “The Stone Monuments and Antiquities of the Jebel Marra Region, Darfur, Sudan, c. 1000-1750 AD.” University of Toronto (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ53819

McMurray, Jonathan Stewart. “Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the Construction of the Baghdad Railway, 1903-1918.” Claremont Graduate University, 1999. AAT 9932572

Mehrabi, Aria. “Iran in the Information Age: Transformation of Religion and Politics.” Johns Hopkins University, 1999. AAT 9927016

Miller, Daniel Earl. “From Catalogue to Codes to Canon: The Rise of the Petition to `Umar Among Legal Traditions Governing Non-Muslims in Medieval Islamicate Societies.” University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2000. AAT 9999154

Miraki, Mohammed Daud. “Factors of Underdevelopment in Afghanistan, 1919-2000.” University of Illinois, Chicago, 2000. AAT 9978667

Mobasheri, Cherie Mineart. “The Status of Higher Education in Morocco: A Qualitative Examination of the University Student Experience.” University of Iowa, 2000. AAT 9975664

Moore, Robert Scott. “Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, 100-700 AD: The Ceramic Evidence.” Ohio State University, 2000. AAT 9982946

Morgan, Ihab Buschra Ghaly. “The Development of the Modern City Center of Cairo in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Switzerland), 1999. Not available from UMI

Mourad, Mashhour Farouk. “Financial and Economic Policy in Islam, a Platform for Moral Capitalism.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9952502

Mustecaplioglu, Inci Deniz Ligin. “Socio-Cultural Metamorphosis in Istanbul After the 1980s: Spatial Analysis of Public Spaces.” Washington State University, 2000. AAT 9997914

Nadolski, Dora J. “The Etatist Turkish Republic and its Political and Socio-Economic Performance from 1980-1999: A Developing State Impacted by International Organizations and Interdependence.” University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2000. AAT 9999155

Naroditskaya, Inna. “The Dynamics of Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Twentieth Century.” University of Michigan, 1999. AAT 9963978

Nasser, Riad Mahmoud. “The Necessary ‘Others’ in the Making of a Nation: National Identity in Jordanian and Israeli School Textbooks.” University of Maryland, College Park, 2001. AAT 3009041

Natali, Denise. “Manufacturing Identity and Managing Kurds in Iraq, Turkey and Iran: A Study in the Evolution of Nationalism.” University of Pennsylvania, 2000. AAT 9989629

Neuman, Tamara. “Reinstating the Religious Nation: A Study of National Religious Persuasion, Settlement, and Violence in Hebron.” The University of Chicago, 2000. Not Available from UMI

Nezam-Mafi, Mohammad Taghi. “Persian Recreations: Theatricality in Anglo-Persian Diplomatic History, 1599-1828.” Boston University, 1999. AAT 9923986

Ng, Kenny. “Entente Rivalry in the Near East during the Great War: Anglo-Franch War Aims from Salonica to Basra, 1914-1918.” Simon Fraser University (Canada), 1999. AAT MQ51432

Nichols, Ron. “Pan-Africanism and the Afro-Arab Dilemma.” Howard University, 1999. AAT 9928744

Niehoff, Patricia LeVeque. “The Acquisition of Arabic Language, Literature, and Culture from a Socio-Educational Perspective: Student Attitudes and Perceptions of Arabs and the Arab World.” Ohio State University, 1999. AAT 9919896

Oikarinen, Jarmo. “The Middle East in the American Quest for World Order: Ideas of Power, Economics, and Social Development in United States Foreign Policy, 1953-1961.” Tampereen Yliopisto (Finland), 1999. Not available from UMI

Okkenhaug, Inger Marie. “‘The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure’: Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948.” Universitetet I Bergen (Norway), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Oliai, Atefeh. “Foucault and Iran: An Interdisciplinary Study.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999. AAT 9938752

Omar, Irfan Anis. “Rethinking Islam: A Study of the Thought and Mission of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan.” Temple University, 2001. AAT 9997287

Onder, Nilgun. “The Political Economy of the State and Social Forces: Changing Forms of State-Labour Relations in Turkey.” York University (Canada), 2000. AAT NQ56252

Oren, Tasha Gila. “A Clenched Fist and an Open Palm: Israeli National Culture, Media Policy, and the Struggle over Television.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999. AAT 9938753

Ouedghiri, Meryem Ben Ottmane. “The Palimpsestic Body in Arab Women's Writing.” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000. AAT 9979479

Pardo, Eldad J. “It’s All in the Movies: Feature Films and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, 1953-1978.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9952542

Parmentier, Mary Jane C. “Secularization and Islamization: The Political-Religious Competition in Morocco and Algeria.” University of Denver, 1999. AAT 9936068

Pasto, James. “Who Owns the Jewish Past? Judaism, Judaisms, and the Writing of Jewish History.” Cornell University, 1999. AAT 9910235

Peleg, Yaron. “Reinterpreting the East: Orientalism in Hebrew Literature, 1890-1930.” Brandeis University, 2000. AAT 9967599

Phillips Davids, Jennifer V. “New Lives: Migration, Fertility Transition, and Life Course Change Among Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel.” Emory University, 1999. AAT 9941806

Pickworth Wong, Diana. “Stamp Seals of the Ancient Yemen.” University of California, Berkeley, 1999. AAT 9966625

Pimentel, Joseph J., Jr. “Sociolinguistic Reflections of Privatization and Globalization: The Arabic of Egyptian Newspaper Advertisements.” University of Michigan, 2000. AAT 9977238

Poggo, Scopas Sekwat. “War and Conflict in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999. AAT 9960397

Polisar, Daniel Aaron Roy. “Electing Dictatorship: Why Palestinian Democratization Failed.” Harvard University, 2001. AAT 3011461

Porter, Adam Lowry. “Transjordanian Jews in the Greco-Roman Period: A Literary-Historical Examination of Jewish Habitation East of the Jordan River from its Biblical Roots Through the Bar-Kochba Revolt.” Duke University, 1999. AAT 9928856

Porter, Anne Margaret. “Mortality, Monuments and Mobility: Ancestor Traditions and the Transcendence of Space.” University of Chicago, 2000. AAT 9957906

Qutbuddin, Bazat-Tahera. “Al-Mu'ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi: Founder of a New Tradition of Fatimid da'wa Poetry.” Harvard University, 1999. AAT 9936222

Rabil, Robert Georges. “Embattled Neighbors: Israel, Syria and the Elusive Peace.” Brandeis University, 2001. AAT 9997735

Rabina, Deborah Lee. “Examination of and Recommendations for a National Information Policy for Israel: The Use of Democratic Models for the Understanding of Information Policy Processes.” Rutgers University, 2001. AAT 3000855

Rady, Tamer Abdel-Moneim. “Poverty and Inequality in Egypt Between 1974/1975 and 1995/1996: The Sensitivity of the Poverty Levels to the Choice of the Concept of Poverty, the Poverty Measure, the Unit of Analysis, and the Poverty Line.” Northern Illinois University, 2000. AAT 9997599

Rahman, Najat. “Literary Disinheritance: Home in Writing in the Work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999. AAT 9923464

Rajaee, Bahram Mehdi. “The United States and Southwest Asia beyond 2000: A Regional Approach to United States Policy in Transcaspia and the Path to Normalized United States-Iranian Relations.” University of Delaware, 2000. AAT 9965808

Ramon, Einat. “God, the Mother: A Critique of Domination in the Religious Zionist Thought of A. D. Gordon (1856-1922).” Stanford University, 2000. AAT 9961948

Rendall, Matthew Tobias. “Russia, the Concert of Europe and the Near East, 1821-1841: A Status Quo State in the Vienna System.” Columbia University, 2000. AAT 9985942

Rezvani, Emad. “The Forces of Change and Resistance in Twentieth Century Iran.” University of California, Berkeley, 1999. AAT 9943433

Rizzo, Helen Mary. “Islam, Democracy and the Status of Women: The Case of Kuwait.” Ohio State University, 2000. AAT 9994929

Rostam-Kolayi, Jasamin Karin. “The Women’s Press, Modern Education, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Iran, 1900-1930s.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2000. AAT 9981723

Rubin, Adam Michael. “From Torah to Tarbut: Hayim Nahman Bialik and the Nationalization of Judaism.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2000. AAT 9957827

Rubin, Michael Allan. “The Formation of Modern Iran, 1858-1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society.” Yale University, 1999. AAT 9954362

Rutherford, Bruce K. “The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Egypt: Understanding the Obstacles to Democratic Transition in the Arab World.” Yale University, 1999. AAT 9930964

Sa'ar, Amalia. “‘Girls’ and ‘Women’: Femininity and Social Adulthood Among Unmarried Israeli-Palestinian Women.” Boston University, 2000. AAT 9965691

Sakhai, Kambiz. “The Sociology of Zoroastrianism.” Columbia University, 2000. AAT 9987138

Salahshoor, Farzad. “A Genre-Based Approach to EFL Academic Literacy: The Case of Iran.” University of Exeter (United Kingdom), 2000. Not available from UMI

Sands, Kristin L. “Commentary (tafsir) and Allusion (ishara): A Comparative Study of Exoteric and Sufi Interpretation of the Qu'ran in Classical Islam.” New York University, 2000. AAT 9970932

Sarieddine, Farida Abu Izzeddin. “Reagan’s Foreign Policy: A Case Study of Lebanon, 1982-1984.” Boston University, 1999. AAT 9919406

Sasmazer, Lynne Marie Thornton. “Provisioning Istanbul: Bread Production, Power, and Political Ideology in the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1807.” Indiana University, 2000. AAT 9993655

Sayre, Edward Augustine. “Labor Market Responses to External and Regional Shocks (Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Israel).” University of Texas, Austin, 1999. AAT 9959575

Schatz, Edward Aaron. “‘Tribes’ and ‘Clans’ in Modern Power: The State-led Production of Subethnic Politics in Kazakhstan.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000. AAT 9983730

Scheid, Fernande Beatrice. “Stalin, Bagirov and Soviet Policies in Iran, 1939-1946.” Yale University, 2000. AAT 9973769

Schwedler, Jillian Marie. “Framing Political Islam in Jordan and Yemen.” New York University, 2000. AAT 9985279

Secor, Anna Jean. “Islamism in Istanbul: Gender, Migration and Class in Islamist Politics (Turkey).” University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000. AAT 9995768

Sedgwick, Mark J. R. “The Heirs of Ahmad Ibn Idris: The Spread and Normalization of a Sufi order, 1799-1996.” Universitetet I Bergen (Norway), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Semmerling, Tim Jon. “The Presentation of the National-Self: Semiotics of National Identity and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Postcards.” Indiana University, 2000. AAT 9966059

Seymour, Elizabeth M. “Imagining Modernity: Consuming Identities and Constructing the Ideal Nation of Egyptian Television.” State University of New York, Binghamton, 2000. AAT 9958506

Shabout, Nada M. “Modern Arab Art and the Metamorphosis of the Arabic Letter.” University of Texas, Arlington, 1999. AAT 9962583

Shamaeli, Abbas Ali. “Toward an Islamic Model of Culture and Values Development: A study of Sadr's Theory.” McGill University (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ50257

Shambayati, Hootan. “The Rentier State, Interest Groups, and the Paradox of Autonomy: The Political Economy of Turkey and Iran (1930-1980).” University of Utah, 2001. AAT 3012270

Shannon, Jonathan Holt. “Among the Jasmine Trees: Music, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Authenticity in Contemporary Syria.” City University of New York, 2001. AAT 9997120

Sharma, Sunil. “Poetics of Court and Prison in the ‘Divan’ of Mas'ud-e Sa'd-e Salman.” University of Chicago, 1999. AAT 9920170

Sharon, Danielle Nicole. “Understanding the Immigration Experience of Palestinian Women in the United States.” California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda, 2000. AAT 9992974

Shayegan, Rahim M. “Aspects of Early Sasanian History and Historiography.” Harvard University, 2000. AAT 9960526

Shechter, Relli Israel. “The Egyptian Cigarette: A Study of the Interaction Between Consumption, Production, and Marketing in Egypt, 1850-1956.” Harvard University, 1999. Not Available through PQDD

Shehata, Samer Said. “Plastic Sandals, Tea and Time: Shop Floor Politics and Culture in Egypt.” Princeton University, 2000. AAT 9957366

Shehata, Talaat Elsayed. “The American Effect: Migration, Nationality, and Identity in Egypt, 1952-1970.” Miami University, 2001. AAT 9991483

Shuqair, Khaled Masoud. “Representation of Islam and the Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern English Literatures.” University of Toledo, 1999. AAT 9937476

Siegemund, Ralf H. “A Critical Review of Theories About the Origin of the Ancient Egyptian State.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9926315

Skalli, Loubna Housseini. “Articulating the Local and the Global: A Case Study in Moroccan Women's Magazines.” Pennsylvania State University, 2000. AAT 9998430

Spath, Leonard Michael. “Beyond Conversion and Crusade: Eschatological Realism and Riccoldo da Monte Croce’s Critique of De Lege Sarracenorum.” St. Louis University, 1999. AAT 9942822

Starr, Deborah Ann. “Ambivalent Levantines/Levantine Ambivalences: Literary Constructions of Egyptian Jewish Identity.” University of Michigan, 2000. AAT 9990991

Stefflbauer, Nakeema Damali. “An Analysis of Syrian-Lebanese Informal Trade: 1943-1993.” Harvard University, 1999. AAT 9935907

Stein, Rebecca Luna. “National Itineraries: Tourism, Nation-Making, and Geographies of ‘Peace’ in Contemporary Israel.” Stanford University, 1999. AAT 9958202

Stenger, Scott C. “Post-Cold War Arms Race in the Middle East.” Southern Connecticut State University. AAT 1400083

Stilwell, Sean Arnold. “The Kano Mamluks: Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1807-1903.” York University (Canada), 1999. AAT NQ39311

St. Martin, Scheherazade Shamsavari. “Traditional and Contemporary Persian Women: A Comparative Study.” The Union Institute, 1999. AAT 9945615

Stokes, Robert Todd. “A Family Fight: The Suez Crisis in American Foreign Policy Decision Making.” University of Louisville, 1999. AAT 1395768

Sturman, Randy Linda. “A Matter of Life and Death: End-of-Life Decisions in Jerusalem, Israel. Cultural, Legal, Medical and Ethical Considerations.” University of California, San Diego, 1999. AAT 9938293

Sufian, Sandra Marlene. “Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947.” New York University, 1999. AAT 9930261

Suleiman, Camelia. “Pronoun Use in Television Interviews: Social Interaction and the Middle East Peace Process.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9986294

Swart, Susanna Maria. “Beyond the Veil: Muslim Women Write Back.” University of Pretoria (South Africa), 2000. Not Available from UMI

Sweet, Catherine Elizabeth. “Democratization Without Democracy: Strategic Politicians and the Emergence of Pseudodemocracy in Morocco.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. AAT 3005957

Tabatabai, Sassan. “Rudaki, the Father of Persian Poetry: A Critical Translation, Along with Commentary and Historical Background of the Poetry of the Tenth Century Persian Poet, Abu-Abdullah Ja'afar-Ibn Mohammad Rudaki.” Boston University, 2000. AAT 9965695

Taha-Thomure, Hanada. “Academic Freedom in Arab Universities.” University of New Orleans, 2001. AAT 3009274

Taminian, Lucine D. “Playing With Words: The Ethnography of Poetic Genres in Yemen.” University of Michigan, 2001. AAT 3001056

Tansug, Feza. “Turkish Popular Music: The Political Economy of Change.” University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2000. AAT 9965634

Taylor, Hedra Marjene. “Desert Revolutions: The Israeli and Palestinian Women’s Movements.” Arizona State University, 2000. AAT 1401878

Tehrani, Diane. “Bayazid Bistami: An Analysis of Early Persian Mysticism.” Columbia University, 1999. AAT 9916923

Terzioglu, Derin. “Sufi and Dissident in the Ottoman Empire: Niyazi-i Misri (1618-1694).” Harvard University, 1999. AAT 9921535

Thomason, Allison Karmel. “Capturing the Exotic: Royal Ivory Collecting and the Neo-Assyrian Imagining of North Syria.” Columbia University, 1999. AAT 9930814

Thompson, Eric Vincent. “Democracy, Authoritarianism and Islam: Jordanian and Arab States.” University of Virginia, 1999. AAT 9935087

Tunc, Aslı. “Beyond the Line: The Situation of Editorial Cartoonists as a Press Freedom Issue in Post-1980 Turkey.” Temple University, 2000. AAT 9969963

Turan, Feryal. “Drowning the Poor: The Social and Ecological Costs of Water Development in Turkey.” Northeastern University, 2001. AAT 3009206

Tuten, Eric Engel. “Between Capital and Land: The Jewish National Fund’s Finances and Zionist National Land Purchase Priorities in Mandatory Palestine, 1939―1945.” University of Utah, 2000. AAT 9992704

Ulubasoglu, Mehmet Ali. “Essays on the Political Economy of Trade Policy and Economic Development (Turkey).” Florida International University, 2001. AAT 3013188

VanDenBerg, Jeffrey Allan. “Democratization and Foreign Policy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Jordan and Egypt.” University of Cincinnati, 2000. AAT 9989316

Vanke, Francesca Jane. “British Cultural and Aesthetic Relationships with Decorative Arts of the Islamic Orient, with Special Reference to Ceramics, 1851-1914.” Open University (United Kingdom), 1999. Not Available from UMI

Vazquez, Felipe Miguel. “Learning and Study Habits of United Arab Emirates Students.” Pennsylvania State University, 2000. AAT 9966912

Vila, David Herman. “Christian Martyrs in the First Abbasid Century and the Development of an Apologetic Against Islam.” St. Louis University, 1999. AAT 9942830

Vorona, Andrew. “Patients, Inmates, and Escapees: Answering Authority in the Stories of Muhammad Al-Makhzanji.” Indiana University, 1999. AAT 9942884

Watenpaugh, Keith David. “Bourgeois Modernity, Historical Memory, and Imperialism: The Emergence of an Urban Middle Class in the Late Ottoman and Inter-War Middle East, Aleppo, 1908-1939.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. AAT 9940486

Weinberg, Nancy. “Labor Market Attainment in a Context of Mass Migration: Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel.” Stanford University, 2000. AAT 9986215

Wittes, Tamara Cofman. “Symbols and Security in Ethnic Conflict: Confidence-Building in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process, 1993-1995.” Georgetown University, 2000. AAT 9987675

Wolfe, Andrew Webster. “Negotiating a Scarce Resource: Water User Associations, Capitalization, and Inequality in the Tunisian Aasis of al-Oudiane.” State University of New York, Binghamton, 2000. AAT 9958501

Woodard, Kathryn. “Creating a National Music in Turkey: The Solo Piano Works of Ahmed Adnan Saygun.” University of Cincinnati, 1999. AAT 9945559

Yaqub, Nadia Gail. “Drinking from the Well of Poetry: Tradition, Composition, and Identity in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel.” University of California, Berkeley, 1999. AAT 9931444

Yaqub, Salim Clyde. “Containing Arab Nationalism: The United States, the Arab Middle East, and the Eisenhower Doctrine, 1956-1959.” Yale University, 1999. AAT 9954402

Yassine, Nahla Abdul-Karim. “Arab Political Dispute Mediation.” Wayne State University, 1999. AAT 9954227

Yedes, Ali. “A North African Reading of Camus.” University of California, Davis, 1999. AAT 9948757

Yenal, Hatice Deniz. “Weaving a Market: The Informal Economy and Gender in a Transnational Trade Network Between Turkey and the Former Soviet Union.” State University of New York, Binghamton, 2000. AAT 9975572

Yi, Eunjeong. “The Istanbul Guilds in the Seventeenth Century: Leverage in Changing Times.” Harvard University, 2000. AAT 9972463

Zarzecki, Thomas W. “Arms Diffusion: The Spread of Military Innovations in the International System.” Pennsylvania State University, 1999. AAT 9960694

Zeidan, Elias R. “Competencies of the Leader of Palestinian Community-Based Non-Governmental Organization in Israel: A Prospective Approach.” Case Western Reserve University, 2000. AAT 9981881

Zetterholm, Karin. “Portrait of a Villain: Laban the Aramean in Rabbinic Literature.” Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2001. Not Available from UMI

Zirbel, Katherine Elizabeth. “Musical Discursions: Spectacle, Experience and Political Economy Among Egyptian Performers in Globalizing Markets.” University of Michigan, 1999. AAT 9959898