Doctoral Degrees in Middle East Studies

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2003
Prepared by Jack Foster

Ed. Note: Canadian and US Dissertation titles are available online by subscription only at Dissertation Abstracts Online (© 2003, UMI Co. All Rights Reserved) at www.lib.umi.com/dissertation/gateway. Foreign titles were collected as available and are incomplete. Please inform us about dissertations completed outside of Canada and the US.

Adas, Emin Baki. “Profit and the Prophet: Culture and Politics of Islamic Entrepreneurs in Turkey.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. AAT 3086001

Afkhami, Amir Arsala. “Iran in the Age of Epidemics: Nationalism and the Struggle for Public Health.” Yale University, 2003. AAT 3084245

Afkhami, Reza. “Psychology of Socio-Political Beliefs: A Survey Study of Iranian Students.” University of Essex, 2003. Not Available from UMI

Ahmadzadeh, Hashem. “Nation and Novel: A Study of Persian and Kurdish Narrative Discourse.” Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), 2003. Not Available from UMI

Akram, Ejaz. “The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southwest Asia: The Case of the Economic Cooperation Organization.” The Catholic University of America, 2003. AAT 3084396

Al-Atraqchi, Leila. “The Women’s Movement and Mobilization for Legal Change in Egypt: A Century of Personal Status Law Reform.” Concordia University, 2003. NQ 77911

Al-Faqih, Abdullah Mohammad. “The Struggle for Liberalization and Democratization in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen.” Northeastern University, 2003. AAT 3095398

Ardic Oya Pinar. “Essays on Empirical Growth.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. AAT 3089552

Awad, Samir. “Persistence of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: International    Politics, Civil Society, and Democracy in Palestine.” Columbia University, 2003. AAT 3088292

Bakhtar, Kayoumars. “Iran-United States Conflict, Putnam’s Two-Level-Game Revisited.” George Mason University, 2003. AAT 3092049

Beck, Stephen Earl. “Learning to be Muslim: A Case Study from Morocco.” School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, 2003. AAT 3088089

Beck, Stephen V. “A Small Power’s Place in a Big Power’s World: Turkey, the       United States, and the Early Cold War.” Bowling Green State University, 2003. AAT 3089905

Brockett, Gavin Douglas. “Betwixt and Between: Turkish Print Culture and the Emergence of a National Identity, 1945-1954.” The University of Chicago, 2003. AAT 309708

Çagaptay, Söner. “Crafting the Turkish Nation: Kemalism and Turkish Nationalism in the 1930s.” Yale University, 2003. AAT 3084264

Campbell, Ian. “The Raveling of the Labyrinth: Spatiality and Subjectivity in 20th Century Maghrebian Autobiographical Narratives.” Emory University, 2003. AAT 3080307

 Chalabi, Tamar Ahmad. “Community and Nation-state: The Shi’is of Jabal ‘Amil and the New Lebanon, 1918-1943.” Harvard University, 2003. AAT 3076874

Chang, Kuang-Kuo. “United States Press Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Integrative Theoretical Model of Influence of News Treatment of News Sources.” Michigan State University, 2003. AAT 3079319

Degirmen, Suleyman. “Financial Interventions and their Effects: Evidence from Turkey.” George Mason University, 2003. AAT 3079319

Dowd, Robert Alfred. “Christianity, Islam and Political Culture: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa in Comparative Perspective.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2003. AAT 3100671

El-Halawany, Hanan Salah El-Deen. “Highly Educated Egyptian Women’s Responses to Gender Role Challenges in Post 9-11 America.” University of Pittsburgh, 2003. AAT 3097608

Eltahir, Eltigani Gaafar. “Comparing the Incomparable: Religion, Chanting, and      Healing in the Sudan, the case of Zar and Zikr.” The University if Wisconsin- Madison, 2003. AAT 3089498

El Zein, Fares Hani. “Politics of Administrative Reform in Post-War Lebanon.”      State University of New York at Albany, 2003. AAT 3096392

Erdiller, Zeynep B. “Self-Reported Beliefs and Practices of Turkish Early Childhood Education Teachers.” Indiana University, 2003. AAT 3094130

Georgakis, Angelo. “The Transformation of a City: Salonika, 1908-1922.” University of Minnesota, 2003. AAT 3098592

Gershenson, Olga. “Cultural Production and Zionist Ideology: The Case Study of the Gesher Theatre in Israel.” University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003. AAT 3096277

Ghanea Bassiri, Kambiz. “A Window on Islam in Buyid Society: Justice and its      Epistemological Foundation in the Religious Thought of ‘Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn al-Baqillani, and Miskayh.” Harvard University, 2003. AAT 3076921

Goldstein, Kaylin Rebecca. “On Display: The Politics of Museums in Israeli Society.” The University of Chicago, 2003. AAT 3097108

Hoffman, Tracy Lynn. “Ascalon ‘Arus Al-Sham: Domestic Architecture and the   Development of a Byzantine-Islamic City.” The University of Chicago, 2003. AAT 3088745

Jafri, Amir Hamid. “Karo Kari (Honor Killing) in Pakistan: A Hermeneutic Study of Various Discourses.” The University of Oklahoma, 2003. AAT 3082947
 

 Keaney,Keaney, Heather Nina. “Remembering Rebellion: ‘Uthman b. ‘Affan in Medieval Islamic Historiography.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003. AAT 3103437

King-Irani, Laurie Elizabeth. “Maneuvering in Narrow Spaces: An Analysis of Emergent Identity, Subjectivity, and Political Institutions among Palestinian Citizens in Israel.” Indiana University, 2003. AAT 3094134

Kirsch, Daniel Akiva. “The Importance of Looking East: A Study of the Domestic and Foreign Policies of the Kings of Israel and Judah with regard to Transjordan.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2003. AAT 3068175

Kosansky, Oren. “All Dear Unto God: Saints, Pilgrimage and Textual Practice in Jewish Morocco.” University of Michigan, 2003. AAT 3079475

Kraince, Richard Gordon. “The Role of Islamic Student Activists in Divergent Movements for Reform During Indonesia’s Transition from Authoritarian Rule, 1998-2001.” Ohio University, 2003. AAT 3081117

Kurtoglu, Gül M. “Toleration of the Intolerants? Accommodation of Political Islam in the Muslim World.” The University of Chicago, 2003. AAT 3088758

Madmoni-Gerber, Shoshana. “Media Construction of Public Sphere and the Discourse of Conflict: A Case Study of the Kidnapped Yemenite Babies Affair in Israel.” University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003. AAT 3096298

Marashi, Afshin. “Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1941.”    University of California, Los Angeles, 2003. AAT 3081179

Mays, Nathaniel Glynn. “Muslim Students at an American University: A Postmodern Ethnography in the New Millennium.” The University of Connecticut, 2003. AAT 3089753

McGlinchey, Eric. “Paying for Patronage: Regime Change in Post-Soviet Central Asia.” Princeton University, 2003. AAT 3068794

Migdadi, Fathi Hassan. “Complimenting in Jordanian Arabic: A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis.” Ball State University, 2003. AAT 3080466

Milburn, Sandra Jean. “An Axe for the Frozen Sea Inside Us: The Writings of Mohamed Choukri.” Princeton University, 2003. AAT 3068797

Miller, Peter Benson. “Theodore Chasseriau and the French Colonial Project in Algeria.” New York University, 2003. AAT 3075511

Missal, Bernita Eileen. “The Gulf Arab Woman’s Transition to Motherhood.”   The University of Minnesota, 2003. AAT 3092774

Nangia, Shonu. “Male-Female Relations in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s ‘L’Homme Rompu’ and ‘La Nuit de l’erreur’.” Wayne State University, 2003. AAT 3086458

Nadir, Pamela Aneesah. “An Act of Faith: Voices of Young Muslim Women in      America.” Arizona State University, 2003. AAT 3094980

Nader, Ayish. “Stereotypes and Arab American Muslim High School Students: A Misunderstood Group.” George Mason University, 2003. AAT 3090717

Nanes, Stefanie Eileen. “Citizenship and National Identity in Jordan: A National    Dialogue.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. AAT 3101402

Öztürk, Sinasi. “Privatization in the Turkish Economy and Neo-liberal Restructuring of the World Economy.” Kansas State University, 2003. AAT 3090380

Paules, Marian Helen. “United States Relations with Iran: American Identity, Foreign Affairs, and the Politics of Representation.” Syracuse University, 2003. AAT 3081652

Reynolds, Gabriel Said. “A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu: ‘Abd-al-Jabbar (415/1025) and the ‘Critique of Christian Origins’.” Yale University, 2003. AAT 3084357

Robinson, William Alan. “Utopia and Authority: Rabbinic Authority in the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel.” Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2003. AAT 3092983

Rustomji, Nerina. “The Garden and the Fire: Materials of Heaven and Hell in          Medieval Islamic Culture.” Columbia University, 2003. AAT 3088414

Ryan, Gregory Franklin. “Cultural Influences on Foreign Policy.” The University of Tennessee, 2003. AAT 3092832

Salaita, Steven. “The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and Quest for Canaan.”    The University of Oklahoma, 2003. AAT 3077424

Saribas, Hakan. “Currency Crises in Turkey: An Integrated Approach.” George   Mason University, 2003. AAT 3090724

Schiffman, Eitan. “Schools and Votes: The Rise of the Shas Party in Israel.” University of Colorado at Boulder, 2003. AAT 3096846

Schreier, Joshua Samuel. “From Jewish Regeneration to Colonialism: The Ideology and Practice of Civilizing in France and Algeria, 1815-1870.” New York University, 2003. AAT 3089332

Seif, Huda A. “Moralities and Outcasts: Domination and Allegories of Resentment in Southern Yemen.” Columbia University, 2003. AAT 3095607

Sengönül, Ahmet. “Monetary Policy, Bank Lending and Risk Management: The   Turkish Case.” George Mason University, 2003. AAT 3079347

Sherlick, Lucille A. “In Search of Peace: Israeli Women’s Voices.” State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003. AAT 3089119

Sobel, Rebekah Anne. “Birthright Israel: Identity Construction through Travel      and Photographs for American Jewish Youth.” Temple University, 2003. AAT 3081789

Steinfels, Amina M. “The Travels and Teachings of Sayyid Jalal al-din Husayn Bukhari (1308-1384).” Yale University, 2003. AAT 3084373

Sursal, Hilal. “Gülten Akin, a Pioneering Turkish Woman Poet: Her Life, Poetry and Poetics within their Social, Historical and Literary Context.” University of Toronto, 2003. NQ 78085

Tugal, Cihan Ziya. “Islamism among the Urban Poor of Turkey: Religion, Space, and Class in Everyday Political Interaction.” University of Michigan, 2003. AAT 3096223

Watts, Martin James. “A Military, Political and Social History of the Jewish Legion.” Open University (United Kingdom), 2003. N/A

Waxman, Dov. “Defending the Nation/Defining the Nation: Foreign Policy and     the Politics of National Identity in Israel.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2003. AAT 3069758

Wolf, Anne Marie. “Juan de Segovia and Western Perspectives on Islam in the Fifteenth Century.” University of Minnesota, 2003. AAT 3092801

Woodfin, Edward C. “All Flies and Dust and Tears: British Empire Soldiers and     the Great War in the Sinai and Palestine, 1916-1918.” Texas A&M University, 2003. AAT 3102516

Zalman, Amy R. “Gender and the Politics of Arab Literary Culture, 1945-1975.”  New York University, 2003. AAT 3089358

 

2002

Prepared by Jack Foster

Ed. Note: Canadian and US Dissertation titles are available online by subscription only at Dissertation Abstracts Online (© 2003, UMI Co. All Rights Reserved) at www.lib.umi.com/dissertation/gateway. Foreign titles were collected as available and are incomplete. Please inform us about dissertations completed outside of Canada and the US.
 

Abu-Qarn, Aamer S. “Three Empirical Essays on Economic Growth in the MENA Region.” Northeastern University, 2002. AAT 3071060

Acharya, Pushpa. “Nutritional Impact of Resettlement of Internally Displaced       People in Northern Iraq.” University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002. AAT 3039332

Adamson, Fiona Buchan. “Mobilizing at the Margins of the System: The Dynamics and Security Impacts of Transnational Mobilization by Non-state Actors (Algeria, Turkey).” Columbia University, 2002. AAT 3048081

Al-Anzi, Jomah. “Dependency Relationship and Media Consumption: Perspective of Saudi People.” University of South Carolina, 2002. AAT 3052011

Al-Badi, Fahad K. A. “Institutional Changes, Money Demand, and Monetary  Policy: The Case of Saudi Arabia.” Colorado State University, 2002. AAT 3053410

Aleidan, Mohamed Abdullah. “Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Occupational Preferences, and Gender: A Study of Undergraduate Students at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.” Florida Atlantic University, 2002. AAT 3043131

Alghailani, Said Ali. “Islam and the French Decolonization of Algeria: The Role of the Algerian Ulama, 1919-1940.” Indiana University, 2002. AAT 3038603

Ali, Samer Mahdy. “Ardor for Memory: Mythicizing the Patricide of al-Mutawakkil in Court Poetry.” Indiana University, 2002. AAT 3077492

Alighanbari, Farajollah. “Kingship and the Social Order: The ‘Siyasat-namah’ in Historical Perspective.” The University of Utah, 2002. AAT 3073431

Alkhahtani, Ali Abdullah. “The Post-September 11 Portrayal of Arabs, Islam and Muslims in The Washington Post and The New York Times: A Comparative Content Analysis Study.” Howard University, 2002. AAT 3085562

Al-Naqbi, Mohamed Ebrahim. “Oil Concession Agreement: An Exploration of       the Effect of Asymmetric Negotiations on Conflict Creation in Three Middle Eastern Countries Between the Years of 1900-1975 (Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia).” George Mason University, 2002. AAT 3047492

Al-Qahtani, Mohammad Fahad. “Essays on the Impediments to Income Diversification and De-industrialization in the Oil-exporting Economy of Saudi Arabia.” Indiana University, 2002. AAT 3054392

Anwar, Etin. “Gender and Self in Islam: A Philosophical Interpretation.” State        University of New York at Binghamton, 2002. AAT 3074469

Bazian, Hatem Ahmad. “Al-Quds in Islamic Consciousness: A Textual Survey of Muslim Claims and Rights to the Sacred City.” University of California, Berkeley, 2002. AAT 3063293

Benzahra, Saloua Ali. “Representation of the Disabled in Arab/Islamic Culture      and Literature from North Africa and the Middle East.” University of Minnesota, 2002. AAT 3037464

Berry, Moulouk A. “Radical Transitions: Shifting Gender Discourses in Lebanese Muslim Shi’i Jurisprudence and Ideology, 1960-1999.” University of Michigan, 2002. AAT 3042042

Blecher, Robert Ian. “The Medicalization of Sovereignty: Medicine, Public             Health, and Political Authority in Syria, 1861-1936.” Stanford University, 2002. AAT 3048495

Byrne, Ryan Matthew. “Statecraft in Early Israel.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2002. AAT 3046427

Çelik, Aye Betül. “Migrating into Identity: Kurdish Mobilization through Associations in Istanbul.” State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002. AAT 3047725

Cook, David Bryan. “The Beginnings of Islam in Syria during the Umayyad Period.” The University of Chicago, 2002. AAT 3039021

Cory, Stephen Charles. “Chosen by God to Rule: The Caliphate and Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Morocco.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002. AAT 3055983

Dahlen, Ashk Peter. “Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed law: The Surushian   Paradigm in Shi’i Epistemolgy.” Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), 2002. N/A

Davidi, Avi. “The Post-Revolutionary Iranian Triangle: The United States-Israel-Iran Tripartite Relations (1979-2001).” University of Southern California, 2002. AAT 3093752

Davis, Rochelle Anne. “The Attar of History: Palestine Narratives of Life Before 1948.” University of Michigan, 2002. AAT 3068847

Delong-Bas, Natana Joy. “Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab: An Intellectual Biography.” Georgetown University, 2002. AAT 3080080

Derayeh, Minoo. “High Hopes and Broken Promises: Common and Diverse Concerns of Iranian Women for Gender Equality in Education and Employment.” McGill University, 2002. NQ 85700

DiPasquale, David Michael. “Alfarabi and the Starting Point of Islamic Philosophy: A Study of the ‘Kitab al-Jadal’ (Book of Dialectic).” Harvard University, 2002. AAT 3051340

Dobbs, Richard Allan. “Toward Understanding Insurgent Success: Two Cases in South Lebanon, 1968-2000.” The University of Alabama, 2002. AAT 3067271

El Shakry, Omnia S. “The Great Social Laboratory: Reformers and Utopians in        Twentieth Century Egypt.” Princeton University, 2002. AAT 3033013

Evered, Kyle Thomas. “Romancing the Region: Mapping the Discursive Terrains in Turkish Constructs of a ‘Türk Dunyasi.” University of Oregon, 2002. AAT 3072581

Fain, William Taylor, III. “Toll-gates and Barbicans of Empire: The United States, Great Britain, and the Persian Gulf Region, 1950-1968.” University of Virginia, 2002. AAT 3044908

Farhat, May. “Islamic Piety and Dynastic Legitimacy: The Case of the Shrine of   ‘Ali b. Musa al-Rida in Mashad (10th-17th century).” Harvard University, 2002. AAT 3067387

Faruqui, Munis Daniyal. “Princes and Power in the Mughal Empire, 1569-1657.” Duke University, 2002. AAT 3092868

Feldman, Ilana Kay. “Interesting Times, Insecure States: The Work of Government and the Making of Gaza in the British Mandate and the Egyptian Administration, 1917-1967.” University of Michigan, 2002. AAT 3057943

Gerard, Joseph T. “The Impact of Ideology on the Iranian Military in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).” The Catholic University of America, 2002. AAT 3047137

Giorgio-Poole, Marilyn. “The Religious Lives and Ritual Practices of Arab Muslim Women in the United States: A Comparative Study.” University of Pittsburgh, 2002. AAT 3054280

Goffman, Carolyn McCue. “More than the Conversion of Souls: Rhetoric and        Ideology at the American College for Girls in Istanbul, 1871-1923.” Ball State University, 2002. AAT 3069539

Haddad, Bassam S. “The Economic Price of Regime Security: Mistrust, State-Business Networks and Economic Stagnation in Syria, 1986-2000.” Georgetown University, 2002. AAT 3053317

Halevi, Leor E. “Muhammad’s Grave: Death, Ritual and Society in the Early Islamic World.” Harvard University, 2002. AAT 3067395

Harb, Imad Kamel. “Military Disengagement and the Transition to Democracy in Egypt and Turkey.” The University of Utah, 2002. AAT 3067628

Hasak-Lowy, Todd Sam. “Between Realism and Modernism: National Narratives in Modern Hebrew Fiction.” University of California, Berkeley, 2002. AAT 3063400

Hazbun, Waleed. “Between Global Flows and Territorial Control: The State, Tourism Development, and the Politics of Reterritorialization in the Middle East.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. N/A

Hinson, Christopher Glenn. “The Origin of Israelite Ethnicity and Quasi-National Consciousness.” Baylor University, 2002. AAT 3068379

Hochberg, Gil. “The Dispossession of (Cultural) Authenticity: Readings in Contemporary Levantine Literature.” University of California, Berkeley, 2002. AAT 3063408

 Hood, Kathleen Ann. “Music and Memory in a Global Age: Wedding Songs of Syrian Druzes.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2002. AAT 3040199

Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman. “Self-fulfilling Prophecies: Dogmatic Secularism and      Political Islam in International Conflict.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2002. AAT 3046476

Jacobs, Matthew F. “Constructing the Middle East: Networks, Frameworks, and   U.S.-Middle East Relations, 1945-1967.” The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. AAT 3070862

Jamal, Amina. “Entangled Modernities: Feminism, Islamization and Citizenship      in a Transnational Locale.” University of Toronto, 2002. NQ 69242

Jordet, Nils. “The Frozen Conflict Between the United States and Iran: Causal Patterns Prior to the Coup D’etat of 1953 and the Contemporary Attitudes of Hostility.” Tufts University, 2002. AAT 3072611

Joseph, Suzanne Ezzat. “Forms of Production and Demographic Regimes: An Anthropological Demographic Study of Bedouin Agro-pastoral Tribes in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.” University of Georgia, 2002. N/A

Kadayifci, Seniha Ayse. “Standing on an Isthmus: Islamic Narratives on Peace and War in Palestine.” The American University, 2002. AAT 3075599

Kahil, Abdallah M. “The Sultan Hasan Complex in Cairo, 1357-1364.” New York University, 2002. AAT 3062821

Kahn, Bruce Martin. “Redistribution of Resources and Land-Use Pattern in a Semi-Arid Rangeland: The Case of Bedouin Sheep Herders in the Northern Negev Desert, Israel.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002. AAT 3060545

Keshk, Khaled Mohammed Galal Mohammed Ali. “The Depiction of Mu’ awiya in the Early Islamic Sources.” The University of Chicago, 2002. AAT 3039038

Kirli, Biray. “From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Nation-State: Reconfiguring Spaces and Geo-Bodies.” State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002. AAT 3059837

Klein, Janet. “Power in the Periphery: The Hamidiye Light Cavalry and the Struggle over Ottoman Kurdistan, 1890-1914.” Princeton University, 2002. AAT 3067154

Küçükmehmetoglu, Mehmet. “Water Resources Allocation and Conflicts: The Case of the Euphrates and the Tigris.” The Ohio State University, 2002. AAT 3059280

Liu, Morgan Y. “Recognizing the Khan: Authority, Space, and Political Imagination Among Uzbek Men in Post-Soviet Osh, Kyrgyzstan.” University of Michigan, 2002. AAT 3042118

Lowin, Shari L. “The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives.” The University of Chicago, 2002. AAT 3039040

Lucas, Scott Cameron. “The Arts of Hadith Compilation and Criticism A study of the Emergence of Sunnism in the Third/Ninth Century.” The University of Chicago, 2002. AAT 3060236

Malvesti, Michele Lynn. “Risk-taking in Countering Terrorism: A Study of United States Presidential Decisions to Use Special Operations and Covert Action.” Tufts University, 2002. AAT 3060314

Mansson, Anna Magdalena. “Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam.” Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2002. N/A

Mezran, Karim K. “Negotiating National Identity: The Case of the Arab States of North Africa.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2002. AAT 3028360

Mitchell, Colin Paul. “The Sword and the Pen: Diplomacy in Early Safavid Iran,     1501-1555.” University of Toronto, 2002. NQ69167

Moustafa, Tamir M. “Law Versus the State: The Expansion of Constitutional Power in Egypt, 1980-2001.” University of Washington, 2002. AAT 3072122

Naghibi, Nima. “Lifting the Veil on Global Sisters: Contesting Imperialist Models of Feminism for Contemporary Iran.” University of Alberta, 2002. NQ68608

Nardulli, Bruce R. “Dance of Swords: United States Military Assistance to Saudi Arabia, 1942-1964.” The Ohio State University, 2002. AAT 3081949

Nassiri, Giv. “Turco-Persian Civilization and the Role of Scholars’ Travel and        Migration in its Elaboration and Continuity.” University of California, Berkeley, 2002. AAT 3063499

Oller, Walter James. “The Poet as Antitribal Protagonist in the ‘Ayyam al-‘Arab’.” New York University, 2002. AAT 3048853

Olson, Brooke Elise. “Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concerns: The Legacy of  Mi’Raj in the Formation of Islam.” The University of Chicago, 2002. AAT 3048412

Osanloo, Arzoo. “At the Juncture of Islam and Republic: Socio-legal Constructions of Women’s Rights in Iran.” Stanford University, 2002. AAT 3067908

Öztürkler, Harun. “The Monetary Transmission Mechanisms: An Empirical Application to the Turkish Economy.” The American University, 2002. AAT 3040672

Özyürek, Esra Gülsüm. “Nostalgia for the Modern: Privatization of the State Ideology in Turkey.” University of Michigan, 2002. AAT 3042148

Pak, Soon-Yong. “At the Crossroads of Secularism and Islamism (Turkey).” The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002. AAT 3049452

Pinto, Paulo. “Mystical Bodies: Ritual, Experience and the Embodiment of Sufism in Syria.” Boston University, 2002. AAT 3040716

Porter, Geoffrey David. “At the Pillar’ s Base: Islam, Morocco, and Education in the Qarawiyin Mosque.” New York University, 2002. AAT 3035313

Pryor, Amelia. “The Practice and Experience of Inner Jihad (Effort or Striving) in Contemporary Islamic Sufism.” California Institute of Integral Studies, 2002. AAT 3058279

Raviv, Yael. “Recipe for a Nation: Cuisine, Jewish Nationalism, and the Israeli State.” New York University, 2002. AAT 3048862

Romano, David. “Kurdish Nationalist Movements: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity.” University of Toronto, 2002. NQ69234

Rowe, William Campbell, Jr. “On the Edge of Empires: The Hisor Valley of Tajikistan.” The University of Texas at Austin, 2002. AAT 3106591

Saposnik, Bruce. “From Babel and Uganda to the Promised Land: The Creation     of a National Hebrew Culture in the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine, 1903-1914.” New York University, 2002. AAT 3035322

Savasan, Fatih. “Essays on the Hidden Economy (Turkey).” University of Kansas, 2002. AAT 3082672

Semerdjian, Vivian Elyse. “Off the Straight Path: Gender, Public Morality and         Legal Administration in Ottoman Aleppo, Syria.” Georgetown University, 2002. AAT 3077817

Shafi, Ibraheem Mohammed. “Assessment of the Impact of Internet Technology Use Among Saudi Business Organizations.” Mississippi State University, 2002. AAT 3069337

Silvers, Laury. “Tawhid in Early Sufism: The Life and Work of Abu Bakr al-Wasiti (d. ca. 320/928).” State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2002. AAT 3067570

Silverstein, Brian Edward. “Mystical Discipline in Modern Turkey: Ethics of  Speech in the Practice of Islam.” University of California, Berkeley, 2002. AAT 3063552

Stavrou, Stavros. “Performing ‘Sex,’ Race, and Nation: Middle Eastern Dance and the Politics of Empire.” University of Calgary, 2002. NQ 77040

Steele, James McLeod. “Orientalism and the Other: The Case of Hassan Fathy.” University of Southern California, 2002. AAT 3073851

Summitt, April R. “Perspectives on Power: John F. Kennedy and the United States-Middle East Relations.” Western Michigan University, 2002. AAT 3080108

Taspinar, Ömer. “Kemalist Indentity in Transition: A Case Study of Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2002. AAT 3046590

Tepe, Sultan. “Political Religion Versus Secular Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Religious Politics in Israel and Turkey.” The University of Texas at Austin, 2002. AAT 3108517

Timani, Hussan S. “The Kawarij in Modern Islamic Historiography.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2002. AAT 3059540

Tor, Deborah Gerber. “From Holy Warriors to Chivalric Order: The ‘Ayyars in the Eastern Islamic World, A.D. 800-1055.” Harvard University, 2002. AAT 3067449

Tsadik, Daniel. “Foreign Intervention, Majority, Minority: The Status of Jews During the Latter Part of Nineteenth Century Iran.” Yale University, 2002. AAT 3046237

Varzi, Roxanne. “Visionary Terrains of Post Revolution Iran: War, Youth Culture, Media and Public Space.” Columbia University, 2002. AAT 3066918

Wahyudi, Yudian. “The Slogan ‘Back to the Qur’an and the Sunna’: A Comparative Study of the Responses of Hasan Hanafi, Muhammand 'Abid al-Jabiri and Nurcholish Madjid.” McGill University, 2002. NQ 78794

Winter, Stefan Helmut. “The Shiite Emirates of Ottoman Syria (mid-17th-mid-18th Century)The University of Chicago, 2002. AAT 3060282

Wirkala, Rita Sturam. “Tracks of Sufi Thought in the ‘Book of Good Love’, by the Archpriest of Hita.” University of Washington, 2002. AAT 3072154

Wood, Barry David. “The ‘Shahnama-i Isma’il’: Art and Cultural Memory in Sixteenth-century Iran.” Harvard University, 2002. AAT 3051327

Yank, Lerna Koharik. “Brothers Apart? The Role of Ethnic Affiliation in the Making of Turkish Foreign Relations.” Georgetown University, 2002. AAT 3077762

Yildirim, Onur. “Diplomats and Refugees: Mapping and the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922-1934.” Princeton University, 2002. AAT 3048752

Yilmaz, Müzaffer Ercan. “Political Islam in the Context of Social Identity: The Effects of Perceived External Threats on the Rising Islamic Challenge.” George Mason University, 2002. AAT 3055817
 

1999-2001

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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

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