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Will TodmanNew (‘16)
research
Will co-authored, along with MSFS alum Natasha Hall, an article for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage political science blog applying lessons learned from the war in Syria to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The article built on Will’s MAAS thesis research on siege warfare in Syria.
أخبار الخريجين
مقاالت الخريجين Dr. Maya Mikdashi (‘04)
Maya’s book Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in May 2022. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a lecturer in the program in Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, and an editor at Jadaliyya.
ابحاث جديدة
Faculty spotlight
Timothy Y. Loh (‘16)
Paul McKinney (‘21)
Paul recently published a two part series titled “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Aid in Syria” with Inkstick Media. The series started as a project in Professor Fida Adely’s development class while Paul was still a student. He now works at DT Global. Gefan Zhu (‘21)
Earlier this year, Gefan published the report “China in the Gulf: Deep Pockets and Deepening Ties” with the Gulf International Forum. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Jérémie Langlois (‘21)
Jérémie’s article “When Reorganizing Coercion Backfires: Explaining the Mechanisms of Revolt in Sudan and Algeria” was recently published in the journal Democratization. He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of WisconsinMadison. Greg Noth (‘20)
Last summer, Greg published his article “Rethinking the Carter Doctrine and its Geopolitical Implications” in the juried journal Contemporary Arab Affairs. He is currently a policy advisor for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Timothy published two articles recently: “Language in medical worlds: hearing technology for deaf Jordanian children,” in Medical Anthropology and “Not ‘just tools’: The framework of equivalence and cochlear implants in Jordan,” in Somatosphere. Timothy is a PhD candidate at MIT.
إضائة على الهيئة التعليمية
Benan Grams ('14)
Benan has been awarded the 2022-2023 American Druze Foundation Fellowship at CCAS. She is a PhD candidate in the Georgetown Department of History and will defend her dissertation, “Damascus in the Time of Cholera: The Social Impact of Epidemics on the Transformation of Ottoman Damascus, 1848-1918," in May. Nour Joudah (‘12)
Nour, who will be completing her PhD in Geography from UCLA in June, has been awarded the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for outstanding women and minority candidates. She will conduct her postdoc at UC Berkeley’s geography department. Deena Shakir (‘10)
Deena was profiled in October by Business Insider about her path, as an Arab woman, to becoming a top venture capitalist and partner at Lux Capital.
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Dr. Frances Hasso (‘90)
Frances’ latest book, Buried in the Red Dirt Race: Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine, was published in November by Cambridge University Press. She is an Associate Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University with secondary appointments in the Department of History and Department of Sociology. Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani (‘81)
Khalid’s book Black Markets and Militants Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa was published in 2021 with Cambridge University Press. He is an associate professor of political science and Islamic Studies at McGill University, and he has also taught at Oberlin College and Stanford University.
