Former MMES Honors Theses

Lea Makhloufi (2020), "Politics over a Pandemic: The Balance Between Necessity and Public Perception in Israel's Response to the Gaza WASH Crisis"

Advisor(s):
Ian Lustick

Shoshana Sternstein (2020), "Iran's Significance for Jewish Collective Memory"

Advisor(s):
Fatemeh Shams

Jack Hostager (2019), "Understanding the Yemen Civil War through the North-South Divide: An Analysis of the Southern Transition Council"

Advisor(s):
Robert Vitalis
 

Joshua Kadish (2019), "Beyond a Global Intifada: Assessing the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement and its Rise in the United States through Supply-Side Mobilization "

Advisor(s):
Ian Lustick

Carson Kahoe (2019), "Mirror in the Gulf: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Identity in Iran's 20th Century Bahrain Controversy"

Advisor(s):

Mahyar Entezari

Avi Colonomos (2017), "Pre-Islamic Symbolism and the Ideologies of the Pahlavi and Ba'ath Regimes"

Advisor(s):

Mahyar Entezari

Joshua A. Slone (2014), "Hawala Funds Transfers and Remittances: A System Based on Trust"

Advisor(s):

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Abigail Denburg (2012), "The Role of Palestinian Political Factions in the Rejection of the 1947 Partition Plan"

Advisor(s):

Eve M. Troutt Powell

Roxana Moussavian (2011), "Forming Hegemony in Nascent States: Education and Identity in Iran and Israel"

Advisor(s):

Ian Lustick

Eve M. Troutt Powell

Yuval Orr (2011), "Legitimating Narratives in Rhyme: Hip-Hop and National Identity in Israel and Palestine"

Advisor(s):

Ian Lustick

Heather J. Sharkey

 

Jonathan Gol (2010), "Slicha SheBati: A Cultural and Historical Analysis of Askhenazi Perceptions of and Politics Towards Mizrahim in Israel"

Advisor(s):

Eve M. Troutt Powell