The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents the CMES Master's Thesis presentations with:
Nora Lessersohn
Armenian Self and Ottoman Society: Christopher Oscanyan's Oriental and Turkish Museum in London (1853-54)
Advisors: Cemal Kafadar, Gulru Necipoglu
Elsien Van Pinxteren
Gender, Parody, and Activism: Rethinking Conceptual Tools through Drag Performances in Lebanon
Advisor: Soha Bayoumi
Jenny Quigley-Jones
Syrian Refugee Adolescents and Parental Involvement in Livelihood Programmes in Lebanon
Advisors: Denis Sullivan, Rima Rassi
Jonathan Mautner
Financing Jihad: ISIL, Al-Qaeda and the Money Behind Mass Casualty
Advisor: James A. Baker
Andrew Watkins
To Coin a Phrase: Counterinsurgency, Innovation, and the US military's Enlistment of 'enablers' in Iraq and Afghanistan
Advisor: Tad Oelstrom
George Kraehe
First Do No Harm: A Critique of the International Counternarcotics Regime in North Africa and the Sahel
Advisor: Ousmane Kane
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