C r a d u a t i oN n ews Nrws GnnouArtoN CCAS Congratulates its 2008 MAAS Graduates
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Twenty-sevenstudentsgraduatethis spring and summerwith a Master of Arts in Arab Studies degree. CCAS congratulatesthe group on this important achievement!
Ten MAAS Graduates Write Theses
Spring 2008 Graduates Rola Abimourched Khodayar Nader Akhavi Benjamin Robert Blaylock* Kristian Rostoft Boysen Meagan Elizabeth Bridges Rafael JosephCarr SandraBeth Doherty Jeffery WebsterDyer Dahlia HassanEIZein Lyndsay Ford Michael ThomasFournie Christopher Richard Gratien SamuelLee Harris Mostafa Hani Hefty* Carla Elena Humud Dina Khalifa Hussein* Timothy Elhami Kaldas Ethan William Morton-Jerome Ken Namikawa Matthew Thomas Reynolds Natalia Sancha-Garcia* Robert Brian Siebeking Dena Takruri* LeslieA. Thompson* * denotesdistinction on oral comprehensiveexams
Summer2 008 Gracltrates Marwa Wael Alkhairo SarahKaiksow Victoria LynnZyp
Graduate Certifi cate Av'ar"dees Nicholas JamesIngaciola, Master of Arts in PeaceSecurity Studies ReemMo'hdAl-Masri, Master of Arts in Communication, Culture & Technology
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RolaAbimourched: "HandPicked and Carefully Selected": An Exploration of the Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Jordan This study explores the three-sided and often problematic relationship between employers, migrant domestic workers, andrecruitmentagentsin Jordan.Migrant domestic workers confront countless violations of their rights, and these often occur because the Jordaniat kdala (sponsorship system) gives employers and recruitment agents a significant amountof control over them. Committee: Dr. Rochelle Davis, Dr. SusanMartin, Dr. SaraScalenghe,Dr. FidaAdelY Kristian Boysen: Opposition and the Vicissitudesof Exile Politics: The Case of the National Salvation Front in Syria This study focuseson an extemally based alliance between the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the former Vice Presidentof Syria,Abdulhalim Khaddam, aswell asnumerousotherpolitical groups. It inquires into the causal backdrop of these nascentallianceswhose lineages can be tracedto various historical phases in Syria's political trajectory and social fabric. Committee: Dr. Michael Hudson, Dr. Samer Shehata 'Til Sandra Doherty: BeautY It Hurts: The Normalization of Cosmetic Surgery in Lebanon
Jeffery Dyer: Unnatural and Ever Prejudicial: Racial and Colonial Hierarchies in l9th-Century Zanzibar This study explores the construction of racial categoriesby British observersin Zanzlbarduring the l9th-century and the role that racial identities played in power relations between the various groups in the period prior to the establishmentof the British protectorate. Committee: Dr. Judith Tucker. Dr. OsamaAbi-Mershed Chris Gratien: "Man of the Impossible": Nationalism and Creating New Heroes in Post-NasserEgYPt This paper examines the PoPular Egyptian spy novel series Rajul alMustahil and the author's attempt to create a modern Arab action hero in the context of national anxiety and transitionfollowing the so-calleddefeat of Nasserism. Committee: Dr. Judith Tucker, Dr. Samer Shehata Sam Harris: Development Through Faith: The Maoadi Life Makers and the New Entrepreneurial Subject This thesisexaminesthe Life Makers, an Islamic youth organizationinspiredby the Egyptian preacherAmr Khaled dedicated to social changeand developmentbased on Islamic principles.This groupprovides a social forum for youth interaction,and it also functions to construct a new model for Muslim selves through its vision of socialchangeasemergingfrom individual transformation.Committee: Dr. Rochelle Davis, Dr. JohnVoll
Tim Kaldas: Colonizingthe Metropole: Colonial Knowledge, ContemPorarY Politicsand the Condition of Maghrebis increasing the examines thesis This in France Today promotion of cosmetic and acceptance posits that and Lebanon practices in surgery theLebanesecosmeticsurgeryestablishment This thesis examines and outlines the 'turholy colonial heritage of France's current and mass media have formed an problems with its Maghrebi population are consumers female in which alliance" of its notion of national the source and natural body the that believing seducedinto It tracesthe roots integration. identity and modified technologically to the is inferior in Franceto discrimination of anti-Muslim Dr. Davis, Dr. Rochelle body. Committee: about constructed knowledge ideas and the FidaAdelY Dr. SaraScalenghe, C C A SN e w se J u n e2 0 0 8