Our Alumni
Senior work by Arabic majors
Spring 2023
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Willie Thacker: “An Ethnography of the Jordanian Dive Industry”
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Katie Wilmore
Spring 2022
- Sofia Leathers: “Conjuring Up Legitimacy: The Nabatean Agriculture in Translation”
- Max Shulman-Litwin: “An Analysis of the Judeo-Arabic Dialect of Baghdad”
- Leah Smith: “qT3: An App for the Algorithmic Deduction of Arabic Verbs”—- joint major with Computer Science
- Aidan Wertz: “Issues of Translation in Two Arabic Short Stories”
- Andrew Willis: “On Issues of Translation in the Poetry of Marwan Makhoul”
Spring 2021
- Hannah Abdelaal: “Sentiment Analysis of Egyptian Dialectical Arabic”—- joint major with Computer Science
- Kamli Faour: “Diaspora and Disparity: Arab American Health Care Conditions and Concerns”
Winter 2021
- Sam Naumann: “Tribalism in Jordan: An Investigation into Tribal Mediation”
Spring 2020
- Cara Levine: “Lucid Exile: Post-Memory and the Works of Mona Hatoum and Mette Loulou von Kohl”
- Ellise Johnson: “Metaphor, Perspective and Identity: A Look at the Poetry of Yamen Hussein in Translation”
- Shams Mohajerani: “Auteurship, Revolution, and the Palestinian Identity: An Analysis of Elia Suleiman’s ‘Palestine Trilogy’ through the Lens of Third Cinema
- Mari Odoy: “A Woman in the Crossfire, A Novelist in Translation: the “memoirization” and translation of Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek into English”
Winter 2019
- Rose Adams
Fall 2017
- Lorenzo Greenbaum: “The Constituents of Language Identity in Rabat”
Spring 2017
- Katherine Preston: “Representation of Homeland in Contemporary Palestinian Literature”
Spring 2016
- Freshta Basij-Rasikh
- Will Brennan-Arffmann
- Aleck Silva-Pinto
- Parker Ziegler
Spring 2014
- Cailey Cron
- Katharine Meeker
- Linnea Meyer
- Alexandra Vallarta
Spring 2013
- Tyler Brelje
Spring 2012
- David Hamberlin
- Paul Rosenfeld
- Daniel Vikum
Winter 2012
- Galen Anderson
Senior work in International and Global Studies and Comparative Literature co-advised by Arabic faculty
Spring 2021
- Matthew Hartry Martingnoni (IGS): “Quotidian at the Precipice: Surveillance Technologies, Carcerality and (In)visibilization in Latent Regulatory Gay-Tech Meccas”
- Jeremy Navarro (CMLT): “Theory of Invisibility in Latin and Arabic”
Spring 2020
- Jack Carew (CMLT): “Biopolitics in the Age of Pandemic: Reading a Cultural Competency into Koolaids and Loco Afán
- Evan Mercer (CMLT): “Musical Memory: Nass el-Ghiwane and their Impact on Moroccan Culture and Identity”
- Will O’Neal (CMLT): “What’s in a Home? Conceptions of Dwelling in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and Robert Frost”
Winter 2017
- Oakley Haight (IGS): “Fictions of Human Rights: Power, Intervention, and Universality in Arab Novels”
Spring 2016
- Ellen Bevier (IGS): “Tweeting the Revolution: Social Media and the Syrian Conflict”