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

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

 

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Ed. Note: Canadian and US Dissertation titles are available online by subscription only at Dissertation Abstracts Online (© 1999, UMI Company. All Rights Reserved.) at http://medusa.prod.oclc/html. Foreign titles were collected unsystematically and are incomplete. Please help us by informing us about dissertations completed outside of the US. Prepared by Harald Leusmann

US AND CANADA

Ables, Gisela Renate. Changing Images of the Arab World in the American Popular Mind. U of Houston. History, Mass Communication. AAC 9839336.

Adelman, Madelaine Beth. Gender, Law, and Nation: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel.  Duke U. Anthropology, Women’s Studies, History. AAC 9727341.

Ahmad, Kamran. A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Heer Ranjha Legend: A Study in Religious Tolerance. California Institute of Integral Studies. Religion, Sociology. AAC 9904978.

Akcali, Pinar. Identity Politics and Political Mobilization in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP). Miami U. Political Science, Sociology, Religion. AAC 9841245.

Al-Hajji, Maher Nasser. Egyptian Television and Islamic Revivalism: A Perspective on Islam and the Mass Media. Indiana U. Mass Communication, Religion. AAC 9919410.

Al-Khattar, Aref M. Terrorism in the Name of Religion: Perceptions and Attitudes of Religious Leaders from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the United States. Indiana U of Pennsylvania. Sociology, Religion, Political Science. AAC 9908872.

Al-Sati, Saud M. Oil and the Geopolitics of Central Asia: A ‘New Great Game’? U of Southern California. Political Science, International Law. AAC 9902765.

Alhelwah, Khalid. The Emergence and Development of Arabic Rhetorical Theory, 500 C.E.-1400 C.E. Ohio State U. Language, Literature. AAC 9822284.

Ali, Kamran Asdar. Regulating Bodies, Organizing Selves: Planning the Family in Egypt. Johns Hopkins U. Anthropology, History, Women’s Studies. AAC 9821085.

Alsalehi, Mohsen H. Attitudes of Students at the Basic College of Education in Kuwait Toward Gender Roles in Kuwait. U of Pittsburgh. Education, Women’s Studies. AAC 9919254.

Alwan, Sabah Juru. Comparison of Iraqi and Iranian Leadership Styles as Viewed by Middle Eastern and Western Political Analysts. United States International U. Political Science. AAC 9828534.

Anidjar, Gil David. ‘Our Place in Al-Andalus’: Declinations of Context in Arab-Jewish Letters. U of California, Berkeley. Literature, Philosophy. AAC 9922727.

Atallah, Samira Sabah-Ali. The Politics of Inequality: Reconceptualizing Gender, Labor, and National Development in Lebanon. Boston U. Political Science, Women’s Studies. AAC 9728341.

Austin, Robert Clegg. From Crisis to Crisis: The Rise and Fall of Fan Noli’s Vision for Albania, 1920 1924. University of Toronto. History, Political Science. AAC NQ33893.

Bargach, Jamila. Between Prescription and Proscription: Adoption, Kafal, and Abandoned Children in Morocco. Rice U. Anthropology, History, Social Work. AAC 9827377.

Bayoumi, Moustafa Mohamed. Migrating Islam: Religion, Modernity, and Colonialism. Columbia U. Literature, History, Religion. AAC 9910554.

Ben-Ur, Aviva. Where Diasporas Met: Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews in the City of New York. A Study in Intra-Ethnic Relations, 1880-1950. Brandeis University. AAC 9829830.

Bertram, Carel. The Turkish House, An Effort of Memory. U of California, Los Angeles. Art, Architecture, History. AAC 9912649.

Bhaumik, Pradip. British Foreign Policy and France, 1868-1880: A Study in Great Power Diplomacy. U of Minnesota. History, Political Science. AAC 9834884.

Birkenmeier, John William. The Development of the Comnenian Army. Catholic University of America. History. AAC 9828833.

Blank, Jonah Bernard. Mullah on the Mainframe: Islamization and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras. Harvard U. Anthropology, Sociology, Religion. AAC 9832283.

Bornstein, Avram Simon. Give Me Your Identity: Palestinian Border Struggles in the West Bank. Columbia U. Anthropology, History, Sociology. AAC 9820149.

Bouzid, Ahmed Tewfik. Man, Society, and Knowledge in the Islamist Discourse of Sayyid Qutb. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. Religion, Political Science, Sociology. AAC 9831652.

Brand, Peter James. The Monuments of Seti I and Their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Art Historical and Historical Analysis. U of Toronto. History. AAC NY35116.

Breyfogle, Nicholas Brenton. Heretics and Colonizers: Religious Dissent and Russian Colonization of Transcaucasia, 1830-1890. U of Pennsylvania. History, Religion. AAC 9840175.

Brookes, Douglas Scott. Tables of Delicacies Concerning the Rules of Social Gatherings: An Annotated Translation of Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali’s ‘Meva’idu’n-Nefa’is fi Kava’idi’l-Mecalis’. U of California, Berkeley. History, Anthropology, Language. AAC 9922752.

Bryant, Rebecca Ellen. Educating Ethnicity in the Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus. U of Chicago. Anthropology, Archaeology, History. AAC 9832122.

Cinar, Alev. Bodies, Places and Time: Islamic Visibilities in the Public Sphere and the Contestations of Secular Modernity in Turkey. U of Pennsylvania. Political Science, Women’s Studies, Mass Communication. AAC 9913446.

Cohen-Vogel, Daniel Ring. Essays on Information and Variability: Theoretical Contributions and Applications to Precision Agricultural Innovations and Middle East Development. U of California, Berkeley. Economics. AAC 9922785.

Crist, David Brainard. Operation Earnest Will: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1986-1989. Florida State U. History, Political Science, International Law. AAC 9834198.

Didi, Rasheeda Mohamed. Conflict Management Techniques: A Case Study of the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991. Temple U. Political Science, History. AAC 9911001.

Drake, Laura Margaret. Dismantling the Arab Wall Around Israel: Geopolitical Dynamics of System Change in the Middle East. American U. History, Political Science. AAC 9913040.

Drennon, Christine May. (Re)Inventing Macedonia: The Passage from Religious to Territorial Identity. U of Texas, Austin. Geography, Sociology, Religion. AAC 9837949.

Du, Xianju. China and Israel: Five Decades of Relations. Brandeis U. History, Political Science. AAC 9820241.

Ebenezer, Matthew. American Presbyterians and Islam in India, 1855-1923: A Critical Evaluation of the Contributions of Isidor Loewen that (1826-1864) and Elwood Morris Wherry (1843-1927). Westminster Theological Seminary. History, Theology. AAC 9832798.

Engone Ndong, Callixte. La Communaute Hausa du Gabon, 1930-1990: Le Commerce et l’Islam Dans la Construction de son Identité en Région d’Oyem et sa Marginalisation. Université Laval (Canada). History, Sociology, Religion. AAC NQ26062.

Fahy, Michael Anthony. Marginalized Modernity: An Ethnographic Approach to Higher Education and Social Identity at a Moroccan University. U of Michigan. Anthropology, History, Education.

Ford, F. Peter, Jr. A Modern Muslim Assessment of Jesus: A Translation and Analysis of ‘Abbas Mahmud Al-‘Aqqad’s ‘The Genius of Christ’. Temple U. Religion. AAC 9911007.

Gallagher, Jan. Emar: Study of a Crossroads City. Hebrew Union College. History, Anthropology. AAC 9829001.

Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz. Islamism and the Quest for Alternative Modernities. U of California, Santa Cruz. Sociology, Religion. AAC 9904210.

Greenwood, Scott. Business Regime Loyalties in the Arab World: Jordan and Morocco in Comparative Perspective. U of Michigan. Political Science. AAC 9909894.

Hanne, Eric J. The Caliphate Revisited: The Abbasids of Eleventh and Twelfth Century Baghdad. U of Michigan. History. AAC 9909898.

Harvey, Stephen Phillip. The Cults of King Ahmose at Abydos. U of Pennsylvania. Anthropology, Archaeology, History. AAC 9829912.

Hauglid, Brian Michael. Al-Tha’labis ‘qisas al-Anbiya’ Thinspace’: Analysis of the Text, Jewish and Christian Elements, Islamization, and Prefiguration of the Prophethood of Muhammad. U of Utah. Literature. AAC 9829755.

Hedrick, Richard M., Jr. The Waters of Babylonia: The Management of Water Resources in the Old Babylonian Period. Hebrew Union College. History, Anthropology.

Hilloowala, Yasmin. The History of the Conquest of Egypt, Being a Partial Translation of Ibn ‘Abd al Hakam’s ‘Futuh Misr’ and an Analysis of This Translation. U of Arizona. History, Literature. AAC 9912114.

Huda, Qamar-Ul. The Sufi Order of Shaikh ‘Abu Hafs ‘Umar al-Suhrawardi and the Transfer of Suhrawardi Yya Religious Ideology to Multan. U of California, Los Angeles. History, Religion. AAC 9906172.

Husain, Adnan Ahmed. Baptistry and Shrine: The Locations of Memory and Personhood in Friar Salimbene’s Chronicle and Asrar At-Tawhid Fi Maqamat Abi Sa’id. U of California, Berkeley. History. AAC 9922885.

Ikeda, Misako. Sociopolitical Debates in Late Parliamentary Egypt, 1944-1952. Harvard U. History. AAC 9832394.

Johnson, Amy Jo. One Man’s Impact. An Administrative Biography of Dr. Ahmed Hussein: Social Reformer, Diplomat, and Idealist. Harvard U. History. AAC 9832401.

Khan, Shah Jehan. Religious Leadership of Pushtuns. U of Hawaii. Anthropology, Religion, Sociology. AAC 9913942.

Kombargi, Asma Bohsali. The Politics of Islamists in Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan. U of Houston. Political Science, History. AAC 9835746.

Larkin, Brian. Uncertain Consequences: The Social and Religious Life of Media in Northern Nigeria. New York U. Anthropology, Mass Communications. AAC 9831735.

Light, Nathan. Slippery Paths: The Performance and Canonization of Turkic Literature and Uyghur Muqam Song in Islam and Modernity. Indiana U. Literature, Folklore. AAC 9907258.

Livingston, Samuel Thomas. The Ideological and Philosophical Influence of The Nation of Islam on Hip Hop Culture. Temple U. Sociology, Religion, Music. AAC 9911031.

Lizzio, Kenneth Paul. Saving Grace: Naqshbandi Spiritual Transmission in the Asian Sub-Continent, 1928 1997). U of Arizona. History, Religion, Anthropology. AAC 9912127.

MacPhee, Marybeth Jeanette. The Aesthetics of Health in the Everyday Life of Moroccan Women. U of Arizona. Anthropology, Women’s Studies, Education. AAC 9901671.

Mahmood, Saba. Women’s Piety and Embodied Discipline: The Islamic Resurgence in Contemporary Egypt. Stanford U. Anthropology, Women’s Studies, Religion. AAC 9908805.

Massis, Maher James. Jordan: A Study in Democratic Development. U of Houston. Political Science. AAC 9917115.

Matthews, Weldon Cooper. The Arab Istiqlal Party in Palestine, 1927-1934. U of Chicago. History, Political Science. AAC 9841548.

Meloy, John Lash. Mamluk Authority, Meccan Autonomy, and Red Sea Trade, 797-859/1395-1455. U of Chicago. History. AAC 9841556.

Minuchehr, Pardis. Homeland From Afar: Iranian Diaspora and the Quest for Modernity (1908-1909). Columbia U. History. AAC 9834351.

Morrison, Robert Gordon. The Intellectual Development of Nizam Al-Din Al-Nisaburi (D. 1329 A.D.) Columbia U. Literature, Religion. AAC 9910640.

Mosleh, Majid. Political Risk and the State: Toward an Integrative Model of Political Risk Assessment for the Middle East. U of Southern California. Political Science, Business. AAC 9902850.

Naderi, Nader. The Absolutist State: The Case of the Early Abbasid Caliphate. U of Notre Dame. Sociology, Religion, Political Science. AAC 9835540.

Naim, Ibrahim Ali. Imam Musa al-Sadr: An Analysis of His Life, Accomplishments and Literary Output. U of Arizona. History, Religion. AAC 9901674.

Napora, John Andrew. Work and Power in Northern Morocco. U of Virginia. Anthropology, Religion, Economics. AAC 9916363.

Natsis, James J. Tunisia’s Student Movements During the Independence Era: An Educational History. Ohio U. Education, History. AAC 9841659.

Navaro-Yashin, Yael. Travesty and Truth: Politics of Culture and Fantasies of the State in Turkey. Princeton U. Anthropology, History. AAC 9813873.

Neville, Leonora Alice. Local Provincial Elites in Eleventh Century Hellas and Peloponnese. Princeton U. History. AAC 9833144.

Ntarangwi, Mwenda G. Taarab Texts, Gender, and Islam in an Urban East African Context: Social Transformations Among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya. U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Anthropology, History, Music. AAC 9904550.

O’Connor, Isabel de Los Angeles. A Forgotten Community: The Mudejar Aljama of Xativa, 1240-1327. U of California, Los Angeles. History. AAC 9912629.

Onder, Sylvia Wing. Women and the Dynamic Interaction of Traditional and Clinical Medicine on the Black Sea Coast of Turkey. Ohio State U. Folklore, Anthropology, History. AAC 9900884.

Parker, Bradley James. The Mechanics of Empire: The Northern Frontier of Assyria as a Case Study in Imperial Dynamics. U of California, Los Angeles. Anthropology, Archaeology, History. AAC 9917238.

Pittman, Lester Groves. Missionaries and Emissaries: The Anglican Church in Palestine, 1841-1948. U of Virginia. History. AAC 9916335.

Privratsky, Bruce G. Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory. U of Tennessee. Anthropology, Religion, Sociology. AAC 9923318.

Redford, Douglas William. Quest for the Crown Jewel: The Centrality of Egypt in the Foreign Policy of Esarhaddon. Hebrew Union College. History. AAC 9830045.

Ringer, Monica Mary. Education and Reform in Qajar Iran, 1800-1906. U of California, Los Angeles. History, Education, Literature. AAC 9823523.

Roustayi, Mina S. M. Old Myths and New Forms of Orientalism: Gauguin, Toorop, Van Der Leck, and Mondrian. Columbia U. Art, Anthropology. AAC 9834366.

Ruster, Julie Anne. The Muslim Civilization and Its Tolerance of Christianity in Tenth Century Cordoba, Iberia and Its Effects on Christianity in Leon, Christian Iberia. History, Religion. AAC 1389550.

Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid. Poverty and Charity in Mamluk Cairo (1250-1517). Princeton U. History, Religion. AAC 9833146.

Salem, Mohamed Imam I. Income Distribution and Equity Across Households and Sectors in Egypt. Utah State U. Economics, Urban Planning, History. AAC 9901418.

Senturk, Recep. Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network, CE 610-1505. Columbia U. Sociology, Religion, Literature. AAC 9820221.

Shaff, Michael James. Lyndon B. Johnson: Domestic Politics and United States Foreign Policy Towards the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. U of Colorado, Boulder. History, Political Science. AAC 9827775.

Sharkey, Heather J. Colonialism and the Culture of Nationalism in the Northern Sudan, 1898-1956. Princeton U. History, Literature. AAC 9813879.

Shashaani, Avideh. Translation of: Chanteh–The Gnostic’s Cosmos. The Union Institute. Religion, Language. AAC 9822007.

Silverstein, Paul Adam. Trans-Politics: Islam, Berberity and the French Nation-State. U of Chicago. Anthropology, History. AAC 9841575.

Simonds, Matthew Wiley. ’Alib. Maymun: An Early Sixteenth Century Sufi Saint and Critic of the ‘Ulama’ With an Edition of ‘Alwan al-Hamawi’s Mujli al-Huzn ‘an al-Mahzun Fi Manaqib al-shaykh al-Sayyid al-Sharif Abi al-Hasa ‘Ali B. Maymun. U of California, Berkeley. History. AAC 9923053.

Tamari, Stephen Edmond. Teaching and Learning in 18th-Century Damascus: Localism and Ottomanism in an Early Modern Arab Society. Georgetown U. History, Education. AAC 9828351.

Teipen, Alfons H. Women in the ‘Sira’ of Ibn Ishaq. Temple U. Religion, History, Literature. AAC 9838538.

Tiregol, Jessica Selma. The Role of Primary Education in Nation-State-Building: The Case of the Early Turkish Republic (1923-1938). Princeton University. History, Education. AAC 9833151.

Tutkun, Omer Faruk. An Historical Investigation on the Birth of Turkish Higher Education. U of Pittsburgh. Education, Religion. AAC 9919338.

Ul-Haq, Muhammad Izhar. Poetry of the Riddah Wars: Its Literary, Political and Religious Aspects. Indiana U. Literature, History, Religion. AAC 9907288.

Varga, Rosemarie. Voices of the Past: A Study of the Saltukname as It Pertains to the Cultural Histories of the Crimea, the Balkans and Anatolia in the Late Thirteenth to the Late Fifteenth Centuries. U of Michigan. Literature, Religion, History. AAC 9825363.

Villagomez, Cynthia Jan. The Fields, Flocks, and Finances of Monks: Economic Life at Nestorian Monasteries, 500-850. U of California, Los Angeles. History. AAC 9906162.

Walker, Marilyn Higbee. Islamization and Muwallads in Early Islamic Spain. Columbia U. History. AAC 9834400.

Foreign Dissertations

Ahmad-Noor, Badro-Hisham. The Wayang of Kerajaan: The Dynamics of Discursive Contestation Between Tradition, Islam and Secular Modernity in the Malay Political World. U of Essex (United Kingdom). Political Science, History. Not available from UMI.

Bonmariage, Cecile. The Real and Realities: The Structure of Reality of Being in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi. Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Philosophy. Not available from UMI.

Persson, Magnus P. S. Great Britain, The United States, and the Security of the Middle East: The Formation of the Baghdad Pact. Lunds Universitet (Sweden). History. Not available from UMI.

Schmidt, Garbi. American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Community in Chicago Illinois). Lunds Universitet (Sweden). Religion, Sociology, Anthropology. Not available from UMI.

Serajzadeh, Seyed Hossein. Muslim Religiosity and Delinquency: An Examination of Iranian Youth. U of Essex (United Kingdom). Sociology, Religion. Not available from UMI.

Tabet, Marwan E. The Role of the Principal in Catholic Schools in Post-War Lebanon. U of South Africa. Education, History. Not available from UMI.


1997

Abdul-Quadir, Abuhamid M. Shahadah: The Role of Witnesses in the Islamic Law of Evidence. The University of Utah. PhD, 1997. Law; Literature. AAG 9812964.

Abou-Youssef, Maysa Mohamed. Transformance: Dialogic Translation Theory and Cultural Performance. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9733779.

Adelman, Madeleine Beth. Gender, Law, and Nation: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel. Duke University. PhD, 1997. Anthropology; Cultural. AAG 9727341.

Ajrouch, Kristine Joyce. Ethnicity, Gender and Identity Among Second-Generation Arab Americans: Growing up Arabic in America. Wayne State University. PhD, 1997. Sociology. AAG 9815263.

Alabdulkarim, Adel A.A. Political Economy and Political Development in the Arabian Peninsula: The Case of the Sultanate of Oman. University of Southern California. PhD,1997. Political Science. AAG 9733018.

Allen, Mitchell Jack. Contested Peripheries: Philista in the Neo-Assyrian World-System. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1997. Anthropology; Archeology. AAG 9803524.

Al-Jarri, Abdulrahman Saleh. Worldwide Production and Consumption of Petroleum Liquids. Texas A&M University. PhD, 1997. Engineering; Petroleum. AAG 9815689.

Anderson, Betty Signe. The History of the Jordanian National Movement: Its Leaders, Ideologies, Successes, and Failures. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1997. History; Political Science. AAG 9803507.

Balaj, Barbara Sue. The Federal Republic of Germany and the Middle East. George Washington University. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9716007.

Baligh, Randa Omar Kazem. Tuthmosis. Yale University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9815635.

Bashir, Shahzad. Between Mysticism and Messianism: The Life and Thought of Muhammad Nurbanks. Yale University. PhD, 1997. Religion; History. AAG 9815638.

Beck, John Alan. A Survey of the Literary Sensitivity to Hebrew Narrative Strategy Within the Translation Technique of the Septuagint. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. PhD, 1997. Religion. AAG 9811595.

Beckwith, Stacy Nan. The Conceptual State of Israel: Textual Bases for Dominant and Alternative Impressions of the Nation. University of Minnesota. PhD, 1997. AAG 9738405.

Berberian, Houri. The Love for Freedom has no Fatherland: The Politicization of Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9811496.

Bontty, Monica Marie. Conflict Management in Ancient Egypt: Law as a Social Phenomenon. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1997. Sociology; Law; History. AAG 9811442.

Boztemur, Recep. State Making and Nation Building in Turkey: A Study of The Historical Relation Between the Capitalist Development and the Establishment of the Modern Nation State. The University of Utah. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9807237.

Byman, Daniel Leo. Preventing the Recurrence of Ethnic Conflict: Lessons from the Middle East. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD, 1997. Sociology. AAG 0598610.

Cohen, Jordin S. In Search of Security and Prosperity: The Peace Dividend in Israel and Egypt Since 1979. University of Colorado at Boulder. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9800514.

Connelly, Matthew James. The Algerian War for Independence: An International History. Yale University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9815657.

Cristol, A. Jay. The Liberty Incident. University of Miami. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9738345.

Cunningham, Karla Jean. Regime and Society in Jordan: An Analysis of Jordanian Liberalization. State University of New York at Buffalo. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9801284.

D'Alonzo, Robert William. Displacing National Literature: Consequences of Diaspora for the Monumental Idea in Egypt in Albert Cossery, Radwa Ashour and Ahdaf Soueif. University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D, 1997. Literature. AAG 9804257.

Derluguian, Liubov. The Unlikely Abolitionists: The Russian Struggle Against the Slave Trade in the Caucasus, 1800-1864. State University of New York at Binghamton. PhD, 1997. History; Middle Eastern. AAG 9734533.

Doran, Michael Scott. The Politics of Pan-Arabism: Egyptian Foreign Policy, 1945-1948. Princeton University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9709958.

Estes, Allen Leland. Enforcement Practices in UR III Lagas and 18th Century BC Mari. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9803190.

Fahid, Sima. Gender and Power in Safavid and Qajar Iran. Temple University. PhD, 1997. History; Women's Studies; Anthropology. AAG 9813496.

Ghannam, Farha. Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo. University of Texas at Austin. Anthropology. PhD, 1997. ACC 9802875.

Haddad, Emily Anne. Orientalist Poetics: The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth Century English and French Poetry. Harvard University. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9733302.

Hasso, Frances Susan. Paradoxes of Gender Politics: Nationalism, Feminism, and Modernity in Contemporary Palestine. University of Michigan. PhD, 1997. Sociology. AAG 9811091.

Heger, Nomi. The Status and the Image of the Persianate Artist. Princeton University. PhD, 1997. History; Art History. AAG 9734254.

Herb, Michael Frederick. All in the Family: Ruling Dynasties, Regime Resilience, and Democratic Prospects in the Middle Eastern Monarchies. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9714242.

Hildreth, Ethan Joe David. Writing an Imperial Narrative: Treatment of the Arab Image in Nineteenth Century British Literature. Georgia State University. PhD, 1997. Literature; English. AAG 9806910.

Homler, Scott A. Revolutionizing Masculinity in Franco-phone North-African Literature: Post- Colonialism, Liberationism, and Subjectivity in Question. University of Minnesota. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9808938.

Judd, Steven Clark. The Third Fitna: Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Coercion in Late Umayyad History. University of Michigan. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9811109.

Kaufmann, Kathryn Scott. Subjectivity and Medieval Arabic Adab. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9803242.

Khalfan, Mohammed Saeed. The Practicality of Having the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates Become an Elective Body. University of La Verne. DPA, 1997. Political Science; Public Administration. AAG 9731521.

Khan, Abdul Karim. The Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God): Red Shirt Movement in the North-West Frontier Province of British India, 1927-1947. University of Hawaii. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9801450.

Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. Sexuality and Secrecy in the Medieval Arabic Romance of Majnun Layla. University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9814871.

Kiyotako, Keiko. Ottoman Land Policies in the Province of Baghdad, 1831-1881. University of Wisconsin, Madison. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9723733.

Kligman, Mark Loren. Modes of Prayer: Arabic Maqamat in the Sabbath Morning Liturgical Music of the Syrian Jews in Brooklyn. New York University. PhD, 1997. Music; Anthropology. AAG 9731410.

Landis, Joshua Mead. Nationalism and the Politics of Za'ama: The Collapse of Republican Syria, 1945-1949. Princeton University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9734256.

Lang, Katherine. Awa'il in Early Arabic Historiography: Beginnings and Identity in the Middle Abbasid Empire. University of Chicago. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9811886.

Lidovsky, Cohen Zafrira. Loosen the Fetters of thy Tongue Woman: A Study in the Poetics of Yona Wallach. New York University. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9731382

Lowry, Paul Thorpe. The Truman Doctrine Administration Policy in Palestine, November 1947-December 1952. University of Minnesota. PhD, 1997. History; Political Science. AAG 9724174.

Maghen, Zev William Avi. Al-Taharah Shatir Al-Iman: An Inquiry into the Historical Evolution of the Islamic System of Ritual Purity. Columbia University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9723820.

Makdisi, Ussama Samir. Fantasies of the Possible: Community, History, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire. Princeton University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9734244.

Marietti, John Peter. Signs of Life: Ahad Ha-am and the Emergence of a Jewish Nationalist Ethos. Wayne State University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9725843.

Marschall, Christin. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Persian Gulf States: Iranian Regional Foreign Policy, 1979-1994. Harvard University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9810688.

Masuya, Tomoko. The Ilkhand Phase of Takht-Isulaiman. New York University. PhD, 1997. Art History; History. AAG 9808318.

McNay, John Thomas. Imperial Paradigm: Dean C. Acheson and American Foreign Policy. Temple University. PhD, 1997. History; Political Science. AAG 9813526.

Mills, David Eugene. Dividing the Nile: The Failure to Strengthen Egyptian-Sudanese Economic Bonds, 1918-1945. The University of Utah. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9733992.

Moukhlis, Salah Mohammed. The Subject of the Maghreb: Authenticity, Modernity, and Fictional Identity. State University of New York at Stony Brook. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9807392.

Muller, Laleh. Iran and the Persian Gulf in the Pahlavi Era. New York University. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9808320.

Nagy, Sharon. Social and Spatial Process: An Ethnographic Study of Housing in Qatar. University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1997. Anthropology. AAG 9814892.

Nassar, Issam Raji. Imagining Jerusalem: A Study in Colonial and Religious Imagination. Illinois State University. PhD, 1997. Economics; History. AAG 9804934.

Nichols, Robert. Settling the Frontier: Land, Law and Society in the Peshawar Valley, 1500-1900. University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9800906.

Norton, Maureen Heaney. The Last Pasha: Sir John Glubb and the British Empire in the Middle East, 1920-1949. Johns Hopkins University. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9730760.

Ozoglu, Adem Hakan. Unimaginable Community: Nationalism and Kurdish Notables in the Late Ottoman Era. Ohio State University. PhD, 1997. History; Political Science. AAG 9813328.

Parks, Paul. Storytelling as a Method of Instruction in Theological Training in a Middle East Context. Oral Roberts University. D.Min, 1997. Education. AAG 9732811.

Rapp, Stephen Harold. Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past. University of Michigan. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9722070.

Raz, Ronen. The Transparent Mirror: Arab Intellectuals and Orientalism. Princeton University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9724774.

Rieker, Martina E. The Sa'id and the City: Subaltern Spaces in the Making of Modern Egyptian History. Temple University. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9737987.

Saeed, Aziz Thabit Abdullah. The Pragmatics of Codeswitching from Fusha Arabic to Aammiyyah Arabic in Religious-Oriented Discourse. Ball State University. PhD, 1997. Language; Linguistics; Literature. AAG 9738293.

Samman, Antoine. Ancient Syrian Society in the Age of Iamhad: Archeological and Glyptic Studies. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1997. Art History, Archeology. AAG 9803340.

Saffari, Said. On The Rollercoaster of Development: Banking and Economic Growth in Iran Under the Pahlavis and the Islamic Republic. Harvard University. PhD, 1997. Economics; History. AAG 9733396.

Sanders, Jeannette A. Combining Expectancy-Value and Uses and Gratifications Theory to Predict Consumptions Attitudes among Egyptian Faculty Members. Florida State University. PhD, 1997. Mass Communications; Higher Education. AAG 9816188.

Sauerhaft, Beth Clara. Runoff Harvesting and Agroforestry: Sustainable Solutions aiding Arid Zone Resource Management. Texas A&M University. PhD, 1997. Agriculture; Agronomy. AAG 9815839.

Sawyer, Caroline Goodwin. Alexander, History, and Piety: A Study of Ahmedi's 14th Century Ottoman
Iskendername. Columbia University. PhD, 1997. Literature; History. AAG 9809775.

Schmitz, Charles Paul. State and Market in South Yemen. University of  California, Berkeley. PhD, 1997. Geography; Political Science. AAG 9803346.

Sears, Stuart D. A Monetary History of Iraq and Iran, ca. CE 500 to 750. The University of Chicago. PhD, 1997. History. AAG 9800636.

Selim, Samah. The Divided Subject: Narrative Enactments of the Nation in the Egyptian Village Novel. Columbia University. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9809777.

Stanizai, Zaman Sabaoun. The Economic and Political Integration of Central and Southwest Asia: An Analysis of the Economic Cooperation Organization. University of Southern California. PhD, 1997. Political Science. AAG 9733140

Sultan, Quarraie Hadi. Modernity and Identity in Azeri Poetry: Mo'juz of Shabustar and the Iranian Constitutional Era. University of Washington. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9736364.

Swanson, Lealan Anderson Nunn. Historical Considerations in Yemeni Vernacular Architecture; Houses
from the Sulayid Dynasty (439/1047) to the Modern Period. Ohio State University. PhD, 1997. Art History and Architecture. AAG 9731726

Von Schlegell, Barbara Rosenow. Sufism in the Ottoman Arab World: Shaykh 'Abd Al-Ghani al-Nabulusi. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1997. History; Religion. AAG 9803387.

Wells, Calvin Richard. Hebrew Wisdom as the Sitz im Leben for Higher Education in Ancient Israel. University of North Texas. PhD, 1997. Education. AAG 9727809.

Wright, Richard Marvin. Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-exilic Date of the Yahwist Source of the Pentateuch. Cornell University. PhD, 1997. Religion. AAG 9813966.

Young, Elise G. Between Daya and Doctor: A History of the Impact of Modern Nation-State Building on Health East and West of the Jordan River. University of Massachusetts. PhD, 1997. History; Middle Eastern. AAG 9809414.

Yousef, Tarik Mohamed. Essays in Twentieth Century Middle Eastern Economic Development. Harvard
University. PhD, 1997. Economics; History. AAG 9733449.

Zait, Shibolet. The Life and Poetry of Esther Raab. Columbia University. PhD, 1997. Literature. AAG 9809804.

Ziter, Edward. The Invention of the Middle East in British Scene Painting and Mise en Scene: 1798-1853. University of California, Santa Barbara. PhD, 1997. Theater; Art History. AAG 9804296.

 


1996

Abdul-Karim, Brian Zayid. Understanding the Islamic Conversion Experience of Two African-American Males: A Case Study Approach to Decision-Making Toward Tranformational Change. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University. EdD, 1996. Education; Sociology; Psychology. AAC 9624159.

Adhoum, Mounir. Deregulatory Trends of Television Broadcasting in North Africa: The Case of Tunisia's Response to the Advent of Direct Broadcast Satellite Television. Ohio University. PhD, 1996. Mass Communications; Journalism.
AAC 9701113.

Aeybek, Ali Yavuz. Turkish Television to Central Asia: Perceptions of Turkish Avrasya Television in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzhstan. The University of Oklahoma. PhD, 1996. Mass Communications; Journalism. AAC 9622967.

Agha, Sohail. Social Inequity and Mortality Stagnation in Pakistan. The Johns Hopkins University. PhD, 1996. Sociology; Health Sciences. AAC 9629394.

Ahmad, Fawzia. Patrie/Watan: Representations of Algeria in the Early Works of Albert Camus, Mouloud Feraoun and Mohammed Dib. Boston University. PhD, 1996. Language. AAC 9622597.

Ahmed, Hussein Suleiman. Exchange, Trade, and The Development of Urbanism in Somalia. University of Georgia. PhD, 1996. Anthropology, Archaeology; History, African. AAC 9624039.

Ahmed, Saifuddin. Contraceptive Use and Maternal-Child Health Care Utilization: A Search for Path of Joint Determination. The Johns Hopkins University. PhD, 1996. Health Sciences. AAC 9629395.

Akinade, Akintunde Ebunolu. Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Yorubaland: An Ecumenical Study (Islam, Nigeria). Union Theological Seminary. PhD, 1996. Theology; Religion. AAC 9638370.

Al-Ageli, Hussein M. Syllabic and Metrical Structure in Tripolitanian Arabic: A Comparative Study in Standard and Optimality Theory (Libya). University of Essex (United Kingdom). PhD, 1996. Language.

Al-Aiban, Bandar Mohammed. United States Policy in the Middle East and Its Intervention in Lebanon, 1955-1958. The Johns Hopkins University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9629397.

Al-Khabbaz, Ali Fakher. Assessment of the Undergraduate Library and Information Science Program in the College of Basic Education in the State of Kuwait Through the Development and Application of Global Standards: A Case Study.
The Florida State University. PhD, 1996. Library Science; Information Science. AAC 9700201.

Al-Najadah, Ali Saleh. The Impact of Oil-Related Pollution on Housing Satisfaction on Kuwati Households. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. PhD, 1996. Education; Architecture; Environmental Sciences. AAC 9624160.

Al-Qattan, Najwa. Dhimmis in the Muslim Court: Documenting Justice in Ottoman Damascus, 1775-1860. Harvard University. PhD, 1996. History; Law. AAC 9631438.

Al-Salem, Abdullah Agdulkareem. A Case Study of the Organizational Culture of the Makkah Municipality in the Context of the Saudi Society. Temple University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Anthropology. AAC 9632008.

Al-Shalabi, Riyad. Design and Implementation of an Arabic Morphological System to Support Natural Language Processing. Illinois Institute of Technology. PhD, 1996. Computer Science; Language. AAC 9704379.

Al-Shammari, Nawaf Mejbel. Application of the Health Belief Model to Predict Use of Exercise as a Health Behavior in College Students in the State of Kuwait. The University of Toledo. PhD, 1996. Education; Health Sciences. AAC
9630035.

Al-Zufairi, Awad Mohammad. Bases of Power, Work Satisfaction, and Control: An Application in Kuwait. Saint Louis University. PhD, 1996. Business Administration; Psychology. AAC 9638846.

Alexander, Michael Christopher. Between Accomodation and Confrontation: State, Labor, and Development in Algeria and Tunisia. Duke University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Anthropology. AAC 9704711.

Alhomaid, Abdullah. Authority of the Text and the Limits of Religious Tolerance in Islamic Political Thought: The Case of Ahmad Ibn Taymiyah. University of Southern California. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Religion. AAC 9636689.

Aljuraid, Sulaiman Matel. United States Foreign Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Nixon-Ford Years. University of South Carolina. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9637087.

Alkhawaldeh, Naseer Ahmad. Assessment of the Program for Preparing Islamic Education Teachers in Jordanian Public Universities. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. PhD, 1996. Education. AAC 9623618.

Ali, Ali Suleiman. Al-Tafsir Bi Al-Ma'Thur: The Qur'anic Exegeses of the Prophet Muhammad, His Companions, and Successors. The University of Michigan. PhD, 1996. Literature; Religion. AAC 9635481.

Altiner-Atac, Ayse Beril. A Microeconometric Study of Turkish Trade Policy: Market Power, Productivity and International Competitiveness. The American University. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9706382.

Amir, Rami. The Target Zone Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from the Sterling Market in the 1960s and the New Israeli Shekel in the 1990s. Princeton University. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9624931.

Anderson, Claire. The Turf Club Murders: Black Saturday for the British in Cairo, 26 January 1952. The University of Texas at Austin. PhD, 1996. History. AAC 9633073.

Arabi, Afif J. The History of Lebanese Cinema, 1929-1979: An Analytical Study of the Evolution and the Development of Lebanese Cinema. The Ohio State University. PhD, 1996. Cinema; History. AAC 9630844.

Arafat, Ibrahim Mohammed. Regional Redefinition in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A Comparative Study in Regional Choice and Regional System Reformation (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Turkey,
Iran). University of Maryland College Park. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Geography; History. AAC 9637610.

Arfi, Badredine. A Dynamic Two-Level Theory of State Implosion: The Cases of Lebanon, Algeria, and Yugoslavia. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9702449.

Ashkar, Dominic F. Mary in the Syriac Christian Tradition and Islam: A Comparative Study. Temple University. PhD, 1996. Religion; History. AAC 9623745.

Attie, Caroline Camille. Lebanon in the 1950's: President Chamoun and Western Policy in Lebanon. The University of Texas at Austin. PhD, 1996. History; Political Science. AAC 9633076.

Avish, Shimon. Qualified Citizenship Rights in Democracies: The Case of Israeli Agriculture. Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Sociology; History. AAC 9706814.

Azimi, Nooreddin. Recent Urban Growth and Change in the Spatial Structure of Iranian Cities: The Case of Tabriz (1966-1991) (GIS). University of Ottawa (Canada). PhD, 1996. Geography. AAC NN11537.

Baram, Uzi. Material Culture, Commodities, And Consumption in Palestine, 1500-1900. University of Massachusetts. PhD, 1996. Anthropology; History. AAC 9638925.

Baramki, Henrietta Annette Vanbruggen. Peoples of Formerly Soviet Central Asia: An Intercultural Study in Historical Perspective. United States International University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Anthropology. AAC 9639484.

Baurara, Hassan. Paul Bowles: An ‘Invisible Spectator’? (Travel Writing, Postcolonial Morocco). University of Minnesota. PhD, 1996. Literature; Journalism. AAC 9702780.

Beck, Linda Jane. ‘Patrimonial Democrats’ in a Culturally Plural Society: Democratization and Political Accommodation in the Patronate Politics of Senegal. The University of Wisconsin. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9631824.

Bentley, Randall Blair. Courses of Action: An Analysis of Contingency Planning for Crises in the Middle East. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9627468.

Bhushan, Indu. Contraceptive Use and Unmet Need: A Micro-Economic Model and Its Application to Egypt. The Johns Hopkins University. PhD, 1996. Health Sciences; Economics. AAC 9629401.

Bonner, Harrison Douglas, II. Essays on Money Demand in an Open Economy and Debt Management (Israel, Mexico). The Pennsylvania State University. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9628049.

Bor, Eyal. Four Models of Relations Between Israel and the American Jewish Community as Defined by the Pollard Affair. Baltimore Hebrew University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Religion. AAC 9706051.

Boulby, Marion J.W. The Ideology and Social Base of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood: 1945-1993 (Islam). University of Toronto (Canada). PhD, 1996. History; Political Science; Religion. AAC NN11675.

Bowman, Kenneth. Ritual/Theatre: An Exploration in Collective Memory Through African Eyes. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1996. Theater; History; Literature. AAC 9629201.

Bradley, Deborah J. Mark Kopytman’s Imaginal Realm: Echoes of Jewish and Arabic Music in a Modern Israeli Piano Composition. New York University. PhD, 1996. Music; Folklore; Biography. AAC 9701480.

Breu, Marlene Renalds. Traditional Turkish Dress Today as Representation and Abstraction of Female Gender Roles in Village Life. University of Minnesota. PhD, 1996. Home Economics; Anthropology; Women's Studies. AAC 9632355.

Brown, Carla Linton. Observing the Assessment of Research Information by Peer Reviewers, Newspaper Reporters, and Potential Governmental and Non-Governmental Users: International Peace Project in the Middle East. Harvard
University. PhD, 1996. Sociology; Political Science. AAC 9624101.

Burki, Abid Aman. Production Frontiers and Small Firm Efficiency: A Case Study from Pakistan. Kansas State University. PhD, 1996. Economics; Business Administration. AAC 9629025.

Candland, Christopher Douglas. Economic Legacies of Political Regimes: Labor Institutions and Structural Adjustment in India and Pakistan (Economic Development, Unions). Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Sociology;
Economics. AAC 9706828.

Celik, Nur Betul. Kemalist Hegemony from Its Constitution to Its Dissolution (Turkey). University of Essex (United Kingdom). PhD, 1996. Political Science.

Clark, Roger. Cosmology, Mythology and Mysticism in the Novels of Salman Rushdie. The University of British Columbia (Canada). PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC NN09059.

Dassel, Kurt Rees. Domestic Instability, the Military, and War (Indonesia, Argentina, Japan, Germany, Indo Pakistan War of 1965, India, Pakistan). Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9706840.

Daneshpour, Manijeh. Stress and Adaptation Among Iranian Families: A Multisystem Model of Personal, Couple, Family and Work System. University of Minnesota. PhD, 1996. Sociology. AAC 9706198.

De Luca, Ellen Kathleen. Crossing Cultures: The Lived Experience of Jordanian Graduate Students in Nursing. University of Maryland College Park. PhD, 1996. Education; Health Sciences; Anthropology. AAC 9637638.

Dehghan Niri, Ali Reza. State, Bureaucracy, and Development in Iran. University of South Wales (Australia). PhD, 1996. Political Science; History.

Doueiri, Dany Abdul Hafiz. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of the Agricultural Policy Question in Lebanon. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1996. Economics; Political Science. AAC 9632873.

Douglas-Klotz, Neil. The Desert Wisdom Project: Text, Hermeneutics and Spiritual Practice in the ‘Native’ Middle Eastern Tradition. The Union Institute. PhD, 1996. Literature; Religion. AAC 9704759.

Dunmire, Patricia Lou. Constructing a Projected Event: A Critical Linguistic Analysis of the 1990 Persian Gulf Conflict (New York Times, Washington Post, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait). Carnegie-Mellon University. PhD, 1996. Journal-
ism; Mass Communications; Language. AAC 9622423.

Dunne, Bruce William. Sexuality and the ‘Civilizing Process’ in Modern Egypt. Georgetown University. PhD, 1996. History; Sociology. AAC 9706696.

Ekici, Metin. The Anatolian Cycle of Koroglu Stories. The University of Wisconsin-Madison. PhD, 1996. Folklore; Literature. AAC 9636591.

Elsheshtawy, Yasser H. Tradition, Change and Street Encounters: The Case of Two Pedestrian Streets in Cairo, Egypt. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. PhD, 1996. Architecture; Urban and Regional Planning; Anthropology. AAC 9639799.

Ener, Mine An. Managing the Poor in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. The University of Michigan. PhD, 1996. History. AAC 9635513.

Farah, Raja D. The Empirical Development of an Instructional Product on the Religion of Islam from a Missiological Perspective. Andrews University. PhD, 1996. Education; Religion. AAC 9630657.

Foltz, Richard Craig. Uzbek Central Asia and Mughal India: Asian Muslim Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Harvard University. PhD, 1996. History; Religion. AAC 9631491.

Frierson, Elizabeth Brown. Unimagined Communities: State, Press, and Gender in the Hamidian Era (Ottoman Empire, Abdulhamid II). Princeton University. PhD, 1996. History; Women’s Studies; Journalism. AAC 9627598.

Fronk, Camille. Family Role Expectations of Palestinian Adolescents. Brigham Young University. PhD, 1997. Sociology. AAC 9701034.

Fuller, Tony. Video War in the Persian Gulf: Experimental Effects of Visuals on Individual Political Opinion and Feeling. University of Houston. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9629540.

Ganguly, Rajat. The Role of Ethnic Kin States in Secessionist Movements: A Comparative Study of Secessionist Movements in South Asia. Tulane University. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9639659.

Gauch, Suzanne. Sketches of Fantasia: Voice and Representation in Francophone Maghrebian Novels (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). State University of New York at Buffalo. PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC 9634435.

Ghadessi, Maryam. An Integrative Approach to Finance in Developing Countries: Case of Iran. The University of Utah. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9623614.

Ghorbani Sheikhneshin, Arsalan. Great Power Intervention: A Study of United States Policy in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflicts (1956-1973). University of South Wales (Australia). PhD, 1996. Political Science; History.

Glasser, Bradley Louis. Neoliberalism, Populism and Political Liberalization: A Typology of Middle Eastern States in the 1980's and 1990's (Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait, Exogenous Revenues). Columbia University. PhD, 1996.
Political Science; History. AAC 9631706.

Goldman, Helle Valborg. A Comparative Study of Swahili in Two Rural Communities in Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania (Islam). New York University. PhD, 1996. Anthropology. AAC 9621807.

Gottlieb, Stuart. Domestic Structure and Risk Propensity (Egypt, Argentina). Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9706848.

Graham, William A. The Riddle of ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattab in Bukhari's Kitab Al-Jami’ As-Sahih (and the Question of the Routinization of Prophetic Charisma). Harvard University. PhD, 1996. Religion. AAC 9631640.

Granger, Gregory Paul. The Relevance of Regime Theory to Efforts at Nuclear Non-Proliferation: An Assessment (Iraq, North Korea). University of New Orleans. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9701565.

Haerian Ardakani, Mahmood. The Role of Oil Exports in the Economic Development of Iran, 1960-1992. University of Wollongong (Australia). PhD, 1996. Economics.

Hafez, Atef Abdel-Malek. The Social Effects of Egypt's Environmental Policies. Walden University. PhD, 1996. Business Administration; Environmental Sciences. AAC 9623936.

Haghighat-Bakhshai, Elhum. Islam, Economic Development, Neopatriarchy and Female Labor Force Participation: A Reconsideration. University of Maryland College Park. PhD, 1997. Sociology, Individual and Family Studies; Women's
Studies; Religion. AAC 9637654.

Haji-Yousefi Amir Mohammad. The Political Economy of Development in a Rentier State: Iran, 1962-1978. Carleton University (Canada). PhD, 1996. Political Science; Sociology. AAC NN08864.

Hanna-Vergara, Emily G. Masks of Leaves and Wood Among the Bwa of Burkina Faso. The University of Iowa. PhD, 1996. Art History; Sociology. AAC 9629663.

Hassan, Mohamed Ibrahim. Trends in Terms of Trade and Economic Welfare: A Case Study of Sudan and Germany, 1970-1990. Howard University. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9700804.

Hayes, Jarrod Landin. Something Queer About the Nation: Sexual Subversions of National Identity in Maghrebian Literature of French Expression (North Africa, Francophone). City University of New York. PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC 9618074.

Heger, Paul. The Development of the Incense Cult in Israel. University of Toronto (Canada). PhD, 1996. Religion. AAC NN11741.

Herrera, Luis Oscar. Essays on the Current Account, the Real Exchange Rate and Durable Consumption (Chile, Israel). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD, 1996. Economics.

Hopkins, Jenny. The Role of The Family in Learning to Work: Experiences of Egyptian Muslim Women. The University of Wisconsin-Madison. PhD, 1996. Education; History. AAC 9622505.

Hua, Haiyan. Which Students Are Likely to Participate in Private Lessons or School Tutoring in Egypt? Harvard University. EdD, 1996. Education. AAC 9624104.

Idris, Hegazi Yasen. Use of the Knowledge Use System in a Research Process in the Ministry of Education in Egypt. University of Pittsburgh. PhD, 1996. Education. AAC 9637857.

Jeppie, Mogamad Shamil. Constructing a Colony on the Nile, Circa 1820-1870 (Sudan, Egyptian, Nineteenth Century). Princeton University. PhD, 1996. History. AAC 9707424.

Jwaied, Mahmoud M. History and Diplomacy: The United States and the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan, 1947-1960. City University of New York. PhD, 1996. History; Political Science. AAC 9630470.

Kaplan, Samuel. Education and the Politics of National Culture in a Turkish Community, Circa 1990. The University of Chicago. PhD, 1996. Anthropology; Education; History. AAC 9636799.

Karabell, Zachary. Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1961 (Lebanon, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba). Harvard University. PhD, 1996. History. AAC 9631518.

Karl, David Joseph. Does Nuclear Proliferation Really Matter? A Comparative Examination of Nuclear Rivalries in Asia (China, Russia, India, Pakistan). University of Southern California. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC
9705122.

Katner, Garth Todd. Our Brothers’ Keepers: Societal Reactions to the Russian Aliya in Israel, 1989-1992. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Sociology. AAC 9702555.

Kazim, Aquil Abdulfattah. Historic Oman to the United Arab Emirates, from 600 A.D. to 1995: An Analysis of the Making, Remaking and Unmaking of a Socio-Discursive Formation in the Arabian Gulf. American University. PhD, 1996. Sociology. AAC 9706390.

Kelly, Patrick V. An Application of Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action in an Examination of the Gulf Crisis: Toward an Understanding of the Technical Constructs of Hermeneutic Communities (Jurgen Habermas, Persian
Gulf Crisis). Saint Louis University. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9638873.

Khoury, Nuha Samir. Aleppo and Its Historian Kamal Al-Din Ibn Al-'Adim: A Historiographical Examination of ‘Bughyat Al-Talab Fi Ta'Rikh Halab’ (Syria, Islam). The University of Michigan. PhD, 1996. History; Literature. AAC
9624647.

King, Caleb K. The Incorporation of Health Concerns into African Basin Planning: A Case Study Based On the Senegal River Basin. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD, 1996. Engineering; Health Sciences.

Korson, Lise. Cycles of United States Middle East Policy in Three Republican Administrations. New York University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9706274.

Koyame, Mungbalemwe. Tax Evasion and the Demand for Currency in Developing Countries: A Panel Study of African Countries. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9702566.

Kusic, Dane. Discourse on Three ‘Teravih Namazi-s’ in Istanbul: An Invitation to Reflexive Ethnomusicology. University of Maryland Baltimore County. PhD, 1996. Music; Religion; Anthropology. AAC 9629959.

Landreau, Anthony Norman. Anatolian Rug Weaving: Mirror of Change. Temple University. PhD, 1996. Anthropology. AAC 9632065.

Larson, Warren Fredrick. Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan: Its Implications for Conversion to Christianity. Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission. PhD, 1996. Religion; Anthropology. AAC 9621987.

Laub, Herbert Jay. The Development of the Israeli-Egyptian-American Relationship from the Death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in September 1970 to the Camp David Agreements in September 1978. State University of New
York at Stony Brook. PhD, 1996. Economics; History. AAC 9637187.

Le Sueur, James Dean. French Intellectuals and the Algerian War: Decolonization, Violence, and the Politics of Identity. The University of Chicago. PhD, 1996. History; Sociology. AAC 9618474.

Levin, Shana Lee. A Social Psychological Approach to Understanding Intergroup Attitudes in the United States and Israel. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1996. Psychology; Sociology. AAC 9626832.

Lieberfeld, Daniel. Turning Points in Conflict: Prenegotiation Decision-Making in South Africa and the Middle East. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). PhD, 1996. Political Science; Sociology. AAC 9632342.

Lichtenberg, Naomi Ann. Hadassah's Founders and Palestine, 1912-1925: A Quest for Meaning and the Creation of Women’s Zionism. Indiana University. PhD, 1996. History; Women's Studies. AAC 9623879.

Malkawi, Fuad Kamel. Hidden Structures: An Ethnographic Account of the Planning of Greater Amman (Jordan). University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1996. Urban and Regional Planning; Architecture; History. AAC 9636183.

Masood, Rukhsana. Social Factors Shaping Fertility Behaviour in Pakistan. University of Essex (United Kingdom). PhD, 1996. Sociology; Women's Studies; Health Sciences.

McAlister, Melani Lynn. Staging the American Century: Race, Gender, and Nation in United States Representations of the Middle East. Brown University. PhD, 1996. Literature; History. AAC 9704071.

Mdafri, Abdellah. The Profitability of Crop and Livestock Production in the Settat Province of Morocco. Purdue University. PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC 9638203.

Mermin, Jonathan George. Debating War and Peace: The Impact of Politics on the News. Yale University. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9635391.

Modic, Elizabeth Kate. Song, Performance, and Power: The Ben Ka Di Women’s Association in Bamako, Mali. Indiana University. PhD, 1996. Anthropology. AAC 9627039.

Mohamad, Faysal. Faysal Ibn Al-Husayn and Britain: The Uneasy Alliance. University of Toronto (Canada). PhD, 1996. History; Political Science. AAC NN11805.

Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud. State-Building and Regime Security: A Study of Iraq's Foreign Policy Making During the Second Gulf War. City University of New York. PhD, 1996. History; Sociology. AAC 9618084.

Mussad, Hani William. Muslim Debate on the Adoption of the Shari'a and Its Implications for the Church. Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission. PhD, 1996. Religion; Theology. AAC 9627767.

Naficy, Majid. Modernism and Ideology in Persian Literature: A Return to Nature in the Poetry of Nima Yushij (Iran). University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC 9632849.

Nassef, Youssef Hamdy. Cultural Impediments to the Assimilation of Information Technology in an Arab/Islamic Society: The Case of Egypt. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). PhD, 1996. Sociology; Anthropology.
AAC 9634259.

Niv-Nadler, Noga. Characteristics of Anorexia in Israel. Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. PhD, 1996. Psychology. AAC 9702843.

Noorbaksh-Dehkordi, Mehdi. From Opposition to Revolution: The Dynamics of Change in Iran and Afghanistan. The University of Texas at Austin. PhD, 1996. History; Political Science; Sociology. AAC 9705926.

Ofeish, Sami Adeeb. Sectarianism and Change in Lebanon: 1843-1975. University of Southern California. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History; Sociology. AAC 9636735.

O'Grady, Shannon Kathryn. HIV/AIDS Education in the Arabian Gulf State of Bahrain. University of Southern California. PhD, 1996. Education; Health Sciences; Poltical Science. AAC 9636361.

Okediji, Olutade Olaolu. The Role of Political, Religious, and Social Institutions in Economic Development: A Cross-Country Study. The University of Oklahoma. PhD, 1996. Economics; Sociology. AAC 9623676.

Olson, Stacie Lynn. New Kingdom Funerary Figurines in Context: An Analysis of the Cemeteries of Aniba, Gurob, and Soleb (Egypt). PhD, 1996.

Oomman, Nandini Maria. Poverty and Pathology: Comparing Rural Rajasthani Women’s Ethnomedical Models with Biomedical Models of Reproductive Morbidity. Implications for Women's Health in India. The Johns Hopkins
University. PhD, 1996. Health Sciences; Anthropology. AAC 9629486.

Orlando, Valerie Key. Beyond Postcolonial Discourse: New Problematics of Feminine Identity in Contemporary Francophone Literature. Brown University. PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC 9704094.

Pitya, Phillip Legge. History of Western Christian Evangelism in the Sudan, 1898-1964. Boston University. PhD, 1996. History; Religion. AAC 9617071.

Pax Lenney, Mary. Monitoring Agricultural Lands in Egypt with Multitemporal Vegetation Indices Derived from Satellite Imagery. Boston University. PhD, 1996. Physical Geography; Agriculture. AAC 9621681.

Peimani, Hooman. Rivalry in Central Asia: Iran, Turkey and Russia in Comparison. Queen’s University in Kingston (Canada). PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC NN08435.

Polidoro, William Michael. Land, Labor and Opportunity: Social Change and Development in a Stratified Fulbe Community (Guinea). The American University. PhD, 1996. Anthropology, Cultural; History, African; Sociology, Social
Structure and Development. AAC 9706773.

Pollack, Kenneth M. The Influence of Arab Culture on Arab Military Effectiveness. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History.

Price, Daniel Erwin. Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights: A Cross-National Analysis. State University of New York at Binghamton. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History; Religion. AAC 9701151.

Progler, Josef A. Encountering Islam: Essays in Cultural History and Representation. State University of New York at Buffalo. PhD, 1997. American Studies; Education, Bilingual and Multicultural; Religion. AAC 9704923.

Raad, Walid Ghanem. Beirut...(A La Folie): A Cultural Analysis of the Abduction of Westerners in Lebanon in the 1980's. The University of Rochester. PhD, 1996. Journalism. AAC 9627340.

Reichman, Roxana Gena. Educational Technology as a Force of Change in Teacher Education: Policy Implications for Israel in the 21st Century. State University of New York at Buffalo. PhD, 1996. Education. AAC 9634487.

Reimani, Hooman. Rivalry in Central Asia: Iran, Turkey and Russia in Comparison. Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada). PhD, 1996. Poltical Science. AAC NN08435.

Risser, Julia Allison. Change and Continuity in the Architecture of the Kibidoue Neighborhood (Burkina Faso, Bobo Dioulasso). The University of Iowa. PhD, 1996. Art History; Architecture; History. AAC 9629715.

Routledge, Bruce Edward. Intermittent Agriculture and the Political Economy of Iran. University of Toronto (Canada). PhD, 1996. Anthropology; History. AAC NN11840.

Reese, Scott Steven. Patricians of the Benaadir: Islamic Learning, Commerce and Somali Urban Identity in the Nineteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1996. History; Anthropology. AAC 9636202.

Sabban, Rima Abdul. Broken Spaces; Bounded Realities: Foreign Female Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates. The American University. PhD, 1996. Sociology. AAC 9706400.

Sadik, Rula Muhammad. Nation-Building and Housing Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Housing Development in Kuwait, Jordan, and Lebanon. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1996. Urban and Regional Planning;
Political Science. AAC 9638873.

Sakr, Yasir Mohammed. The Subversive Utopia: Louis Kahn and the Question of the National Jewish Style in Jerusalem. University of Pennsylvania. PhD, 1996. Architecture; Anthropology; History. AAC 9636209.

Salami, Habibollah. Production Structure and Productivity Measurement in the Iranian Crop Sector. University of Alberta (Canada). PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC NN10631.

Salvodon, Marjorie. Shifting Boundaries: The Interplay of Place and Displacement in Selected Contemporary Francophone Narratives. Brown University. PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC 9704120.

Sarvghyad-Moghaddam, Majid. The Political Economy of the Oil Industry in Iran, 1979-1993. The George Washington University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; Economics; History. AAC 9701907.

Serrano, Richard Arthur. Berbers, Buddhists and Bibelots: Appropriation of Alien Traditions by French, Chinese, Arab and Francophone Poets. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1996. Literature. AAC 9703275.

Shallwani, Shabnam. Development Strategies for Rural Women of Pakistan (Rural Communities). University of Notre Dame. PhD, 1996. Economics; Sociology; Women's Studies. AAC 9623592.

Sheikhzadeh, Ahmad. Security Policy of Iran: 1941-1979. Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9631777.

Shemmassian, Vahram Leaon. The Armenian Villagers of Musa Dagh: A Historical-Ethnographic Study, 1840-1915. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD, 1996. History; Sociology. AAC 9634310.

Short, Julianne Elizabeth. Musokorobaya: Practice, Embodiment, Transition, and Agency in the Lives of Senior Bamana Women of Mali. Indiana University. PhD, 1996. Anthropology. AAC 9637541.

Silverman, Carol Jean. Image Versus Reality: Ethnic Interest Groups in the Foreign Policy Process, AIPAC, A Case Study (Israel). University of Virginia. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History. AAC 9616019.

Simbar, Reza. The Role of Great Powers in Regional Conflicts: A Case Study of United States Intervention in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). University of South Wales (Australia). PhD, 1996. Political Science; History.

Sinnott, Peter James. Urban Settlement in Soviet Central Asia: The Evolution of the Spacial Patterns and Structure, 1920-1991. Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Geography; History. AAC 9631780.

Stadler, Constance Newnam. The Nation as Idea: Cultural Combat and Political Change in Morocco: A Theoretical Study of the Works of Driss Chraibi, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and Tahar Ben Jelloun. New York University. PhD, 1996.
Political Science; History. AAC 9702059).

Sultan, Dawood Hussein. An Examination of the Effects of the Mother's Education and Household Exposure to Disease on Childhood Diarrheal Morbidity in Sudan. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical
College. PhD, 1996. Sociology; Women's Studies; Health Sciences. AAC 9706366.

Taheri, Zahra Haghighi. The Depiction of Women in Persian Ethical Texts. University of California, Berkeley. PhD, 1996. Literature; Religion; Women’s Studies. AAC 9703293.

Tarhan, Mehmet. Religious Education in Turkey: A Socio-Historical Study of the Imam-Hatip Schools. Temple University. PhD, 1996. Education; Religion. AAC 9623807.

Temple, Mark Allen. A Qualitative Analysis of Muslim Students' Perceptions Regarding Death, Dying, and the Afterlife. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. PhD, 1996. Education; Religion; Sociology. AAC 9635043.

Thomas, Christopher J. Does Community Participation Make a Difference? Girls' Schooling Outcomes and Community Participation in Balochistan (Pakistan). Stanford University. PhD, 1996. Education. AAC 9620548.

Thomas, Teresa Ann. From Orientalism to Professionalism: United States Foreign Service Officers in the Middle East Since 1946. Clark University. PhD, 1996. History. AAC 9639556.

Thrall, A. Trevor. War in the Media Age: The Government/Press Struggle from the Vietnam to the Gulf. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD, 1996. Political Science.

Turan, Fikret. Old Anatolian Turkish: Syntactic Structure (Fourteenth Century, Prose, Islam). Harvard University. PhD, 1996. Language; Anthropology; History. AAC 9631653.

Uthup, Thomas. Religious Values and Public Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Islam and Development in Four Islamic States, 1970-1990 (Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria). State University of New York at Binghamton. PhD, 1996.
Political Science; Religion; History. AAC 9701154.

Varcin, Recep. An Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation in the Informal Sector of the Economy in Turkey. University of Oregon. PhD, 1996. Sociology; Economics. AAC 9624261.

Vartan, Diana. Psychological Impact of Acculturation on Armenians Living in the United States. University of Southern California. PhD, 1996. Education; Sociology. AAC 9705189.

Viscarri, Dionisio, Leo. Political Ideology and Orientalism: The Pre-Fascist Narrative of the Moroccan War (1921-1923) (Spain, Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Ernesto Gimenez Caballero, Luys Santa Marina, Falange Espanola). The Ohio
State University. PhD, 1996. Literature; History; Political Science. AAC 9639365.

Warren, Marianne Elizabeth. The Maharishtrian 'Sufi' Context of Hazrat Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi. University of Toronto (Canada). PhD, 1996. Religion, History of; Biography. AAC NN11882.

Weiman, Racelle R. From Recognition to Reconciliation: The Catholic Church and the Jewish State (Israel). Temple University. PhD, 1996. Religion; History; Political Science. AAC 9623815.

Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky. Political Mobilization Under Authoritarian Rule: Explaining Islamic Activism in Mubarak's Egypt. Princeton University. PhD, 1996. Political Science; History; Religion. AAC 9622645.

Witmer, Michael David. The 1947-1948 Myderabad Conflict: Realpolitik and the Formation of the Modern Indian State (Pakistan). Temple University. PhD, 1996. History; Political Science. AAC 9623816.

Wilder, Andrew Roberts. Elections and Political Change in Pakistan: An Analysis of Determinants of Voting Behavior in the Punjab, 1970-1993. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). PhD, 1996. Political Science;
History. AAC 9627479.

Yavari, Kazem. Oil Shocks, Exchange Rates and Resource Allocation in Iran (1960-1992). University of Toronto (Canada). PhD, 1996. Economics. AAC NN11895.

Yaylalier, Dinc. American Perceptions of Turkey, 1919-1927. The University of Utah. PhD, 1996.

Yilmaz, Hakan. The International Context of Regime Change: Turkey, 1923-1960. Columbia University. PhD, 1996. Political Science. AAC 9616746.

Zaideman, Wayne Howard. The Politics of Sayyid Hasan Mudarris, Based Upon A Critical Analysis of the Book Mudarris, as Published by the Bunyad-I Tarikh-I Inghilab-I Islami-Yi Iran. New York University. PhD, 1996. Literature;
Biography; Political Science. AAC 9621846.

 


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