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Student Awards

  • Arabic Language Book Awards
    • 2019 Shiraz Fazil 
    • 2018 Kaylee Lockett 
    • 2017 Joy Al-Nemri
    • 2016 Sarah Weinstein
    • 2015 Hannah Cantor 
    • 2014 Sarah Weinstein
    • 2013 Benjamin DiFabbio
    • 2012 Ada Petiwala
    • 2011 Maya Shira Perlmann
    • 2010 Michael Kellner
    • 2009 Luke Bolton
  • Student Award Recipients
    • 2019 Eric Raimondi, Davis Projects for Peace
    • 2017 Eliza Cornwell, Davis Projects for Peace
    • 2017 Joy al-Nemri, Harry Turney-High Fund for Fieldwork, Anthropology Program

Senior Projects

Complete versions of Middle Eastern Studies Senior Projects available at the library’s Digital Commons linked below.

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Recent Alumni/ae and Senior Projects

  • Eric Raimondi (2019), “America’s Forgotten Project: TAPline and the Rise of a New Capitalist Order in the Levant, 1945-1950.”
  • Kaylee Lockett (2018)
  • Joy Huda Al-Nemri (2017), “The Politics of Distinction and Exchange in Displacement: How Aesthetics Become Ethical.”
  • Eliza Cornwell (2017)
  • Theo Lowrey (2016), “An Ancient City for the Future: Reconstructing Physical and Intellectual Narratives in Beirut in the 1990s.”
  • Lucy Flamm, (2015 -- winner, Marc Bloch award from Historical Studies Program), “Iranian Islands? Bahrain, Abu Masa and the Tunbs in the Persian Gulf.”
  • Michael Ernst (2014)
  • Ada Petiwala (2012)

Scholarly Resources

  • ArabLit
  • Jadaliyya
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