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Middle East & North African Studies: Student Projects

MENA Themed Senior Projects

The Displacement of an Imagined People: Tourism, Biblical Romanticism, and Orientalism in Pre-Mandate Palestine 1840-1922
Social Order and Black Nationalist Islam in the Early 1960s U.S. Prison System
Remembering the Future: Jewish Youth Pilgrimage to Poland and Israel as a Means of Identity Construction
“How Much More French Can I Be?”: An Analysis of Themes of Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Assimilation, Anti-Racism, and Anti-Islamophobia in Contemporary French Rap
“Are We the Master’s Tools or the Masters Too?”: Unthreading the Dialectical Tensions of Jewish Identity in College
Masks Tell Stories: An Exploration of the Uses of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans of the Iraq War
“Shouting I am Alive!” Challenging Dominant City Narratives and Senses of Place through Street Art & Graffiti
Witnessing Violence: Accounting for Image in the Making of Islamic State Beheading Media
“I Am All of These Things”: Narratives of Belonging Among Immigrant and Refugee Students in an After School Mentoring Program in Portland, Oregon
"I am a government project": How Saudi Students Navigate their Scholarship Obligations at Lewis & Clark College
“We Were So Different Than They Were” Negotiating Immigrant Cultural Identity Through Three Generations
Constructing the Victim, Creating the Empowered Woman: Aid Allocation, NGO Work, and Women’s Empowerment In Morocco
Hate and Collaborate: An Examination of Online Reactionary Communities
Not Just “Some Stupid Monkey Job”: The Educational and Occupational Experiences of Immigrant Taxi Drivers in Portland, Oregon
Boundaries to Belonging: Ethnic-Identity and Racialization among Immigrant Youth
Embodying Divine Unity in a Hybrid Context: The Ritual Practice of Sema Among North American West Coast Mevlevi “Whirling Dervishes”
Negotiating Identities: The Acculturative Encounters of African Refugee Students at School
Don't Show me the Money: A Statistical Analysis between Economics, Attitudes towards Islam and Population Favorability towards Hamas
Hybridity and Hypocrisy: Intentional Communities in a Postmodern Age
Global Migration and Local Racism in Norway: Migrant Experiences of Exclusion and Discrimination in the Context of Modern State Politics
Islamophobia and Language Practices in the French Projects: Violence, Innovation, and Social Identity
The Mitzvah of Matzoth and Medicine: Analyzing Jewish Mission Trips to Cuba through an Humanitarian Tourism Lens
An Alternative to Violence: Encouraging Forgiveness in a Post 9/11 World
Imagining Community: The Role of Bumper Stickers in Israeli Identity Formation
A Moveable Feast: Understanding the Similarities and Differences Between Immigrant and American-Born Food Cart Workers
The Dual Identity of First Generation Iranian-Americans: Finding the Balance of Iranian heritage and American culture