Research
Arab Studies students are frequently publishing articles, book reviews, translations, and conducting research. Here are some recent examples (listed alphabetically by student last name).
Recently Published Students & Alumni
Sophia Nissler '21
- "Escape to Germany in Syrian Television Drama: From Cross-Cultural Gender Constructions to Transnational Tropes of Masculinity and Homeland" by Rebecca Joubin and Sophia Nissler in The Middle East Journal
Hayden Bates '17
- "Growing Up in Wartime: Images of Refugee Children's Education in Syrian Television Drama" by Hayden Bates and Rebecca Joubin in Middle East Report 278 (Spring 2016)
Noah Bricker '14
- "Searching for Home" a review of Spared by Angele Ellis, in Al Jadid
- "Women of Letters Key Players in Iran's Social Revolution," a review of Words, Not Swords by Farzaneh Milani, in Al Jadid
Catherine Cartier '20
- "Locals lobby to keep their valley green in South Lebanon" in Al-Monitor
- "The Copper Castle" in Syria Untold
- "The Storytellers of Syria: Displaced women keep tradition and history alive with folktales" in The New Arab
- "Psychologically healing people with art': Lebanese artist Bilal al-Zain hopes to spread positivity with calligraphy" in The New Arab
- "After civil war and economic chaos, Tajikistan’s young innovators are rebuilding their cultural legacy" in The Calvert Journal
- "The Art of Speaking: Oral Storytelling Among Syrians in Jordan" in Al Noor
Zakiyyah Chism '18
- "Uber Faces New Challenges Across Global Markets" in U.S. News & World Report
Beau Clark '13
- "Book Examines Petro-Dollar Paradox" - a review of The Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes: Algeria, Iraq, and Libya by Luis Marinez, in Al Jadid
- "Interview with David Fedele on his film on Sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco" in Morocco World News
- "Using Popular Media to Narrate the History of Africa" in Morocco World News
- "Yassine Jarram presents Moroccans of the World" in Morocco World News
Paige Donnelly '14
- “Un-dividing West and East” - a review of So That the Poem Remains by B Youssef Abdul Samad, in Al Jadid
- "The Legacy of a Martyr" in Al Jadid
- "Faces, Conversations, and Comaraderie in the Egyptian Revolution" in Al Jadid
- Tashriqa "Prayers for Homs" by Faraj Bayrakdar in Al Jadid
- Tashriqa: Prayer for Homs (PDF) by Faraj Bayrakdar in Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline, edited by Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen & Nawara Mahfoud
Alexandra Francis '12
- "South Korea's Search for Nuclear Sovereignty" reviewed by Alexandra Francis and Toby Dalton in Asia Policy 19 (January 2015)
- "Jordan's Refugee Crisis (PDF)" in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (September 2015)
Austin Gray '16
- "Pop Culture and Political Critique in Syria (PDF)" in The Boston College Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal,Volume 10, Issue 1, Fall 2016.
Anna Van Hollen '12
- Awarded prize by Society of Professional Journalists for outstanding reporting
- "The Green Intifada: How Palestinians Resist Occupation by Planting Trees" in The Atlantic
Anmar Jerjees '18
- "The Reality of Oppression: Working with Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Bulgaria" in Change-Magazine
Stephen James Kalin '09
- "Survivors say Iraqi forces watched as Shi'ite militias executed 72 Sunnis" for Reuters, Jan. 28, 2015
- "A trench in Iraq exacerbates Sunni fears of sectarian partition" for Reuters, Feb. 18, 2015
Lauren Khater '12
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"'Temporal Template': Tool for Western Hegemony" - a review of The Clash of Modernities by Khaldoun Samman, in Al Jadid
- "Anthony Shadid's 'House of Stone' or the Return to the Roots" by Elie Haddad (translation) in Al Jadid
- "Fragments of Love and Loneliness: Adania Shibli's New Novel" - a review of We Are All Equally Far From Love by Adania Shibli, in Al Jadid
- "Is Geography Destiny?" - a review of The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan, in Al Jadid
Kate LeGrand '15
- "Marbrook's Poetry Drawn by Homeland, Loss, Alienation" - a review of Far From Algiers by Djelloul Marbrook, in Al Jadid
Tim Louthan '15
- "The Power of History: Reappropriating Syria's Past" in Al Jadid
- "Patrick Seale (1930-2014): Renowned Historian/Journalist, Lover of All Things Syrian...Even the Assad Regime" in Al Jadid
Aman Madan '19
- "For Syrian Refugees Living in Jordan, Journalism Offers Hope and Opportunity to Rebuild Their Homeland" in Global Voices (July 2017)
- "Oppression's Child: How Hatred Imbedded Itself in Syria's Soul" a review of In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa in Al Jadid
AJ Naddaff '19
- "Syria's teen documentarian" in the Columbia Journalism Review (2019)
- "Sorrow and Despair in Kosovo: Portraits of Kosovo-Albanians Connected to Jihad" in the Pulitzer Center website (2018)
- "Kosovo, home to many ISIS recruits, is struggling to stamp out its homegrown terrorism problem" in The Washington Post (2018)
- Interview: experiences with cultural immersion in Jordan and studying intensive Arabic (2017)
- "Photographing the House of Assad" in Syria Deeply (2017)
- "Akram Al-Halabi: Pursuing Harmony Between Nature and Humanity" in Syria Untold (2017)
- "Dance or Die: Refugee Camp to the Dutch National Ballet" in The New Arab (2017)
- "Diala Brisly, The Guardian Artist of Syria's Children" in The New Arab (2017)
- "Do Syrian Artists Lose Their Identity Abroad?" in Syria Untold (2017)
- "Hanging By a Thread: Dissident Puppeteers in Assad's Syria" in Al Noor (Spring 2017)
- "Khaled Khalifa Speaks His Mind on Books and Drama under Syrian Censorship" (co-authored by Rebecca Joubin) in Al Jadid
- "Hope and Struggle in the Hashemite Kingdom" in The Boston College Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, Fall 2016.
Sophia Nissler '21
- "Escape to Germany in Syrian Television Drama: From Cross-Cultural Gender Constructions to Transnational Tropes of Masculinity and Homeland" by Rebecca Joubin and Sophia Nissler in The Middle East Journal
Aric Reviere '15
- "Quick Bread" (translation) in Al Jadid
Joseph Sills '12
- "Prison: Geography of Despotism" in Al Jadid
- "The Children's Revolution" in Al Jadid
- "Syria/Guernica:The Art of Youssef Abdelke" (translation) in Al Jadid
- "Fatima's Head" (translation) in Al Jadid
- "The Sword of Amin Maalouf" (translation) in Al Jadid
- "Creating New Narrative Space in Traditional Arab Tales" in Al Jadid
- "Resisting State Co-Option of Language and Poetry" a review of ClockWork by Zaid Shlah, in Al Jadid
Alex Soltany '18
- "Yasar Kemal: Champion of Anatolian Literature and Social Justice" in Al Jadid
Hampton Stall '15
- "Sowing Seeds of Social Media Destruction: ISIS as Disruptor and Political Weapon" in The Davidson International
- "Rushing Reconciliation: The Day After Project" in The Davidson International
- "Lebanon: Left Out of Discussion, Issues to Come" in The Davidson International
- "The Shallow End of Egypt's Deep State: A Single Toe at a Time" in The Davidson International
- "Why the Afghan Elections Matter so Much" in The Davidson International
Alex Taylor '13
- "Thirst" by Ghassan Kanafani (introduction and translation) in Al Jadid