Middle East Studies Senior Paper Presentation Day 2019

Middle East Studies' graduating seniors present their honors theses or capstone papers. Thesis: Margaret Follett – “Such a Method of Doing Business”: Local Shipping Agents, the Hajj, and the Divide between Corporate and Colonial Priorities in late 1870s Jeddah Anna Murphy – The Tyranny of the Tabloids: Identifying methods of exclusion in press coverage of British Muslims Capstone: Alexander Samaha – Sex, Power, and the State: Assessing the Policing of Queerness in the Contemporary Middle East Rakan Aboneaaj – Social Statelessness in the Palestinian Diaspora: Application and Implications of a New Conceptualization of Statelessness Jessica Murphy – Displacement and Emplacement: Demonstrations of Solidarity in Response to the "Travel Ban"