MENAS PhD Defenses 2020

July 23, 2020
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Abbass Braham's headshot.

Abbass Braham defended on July 10 and his title is: Colonizing Shari‘a: Islamic Tradition, Indigenous Law, and the Secularization of African Custom in Mauritania, 1900-1940.

Committee: Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas; Darling, Linda T; Noorani, Yaseen A; Fortna, Benjamin, And Leila Hudson supervisor

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Faraj Hamdan's headshot.

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Kyle Jones' headshot.

Kyle Jones defended on April 7, 2020, with a dissertation entitled: A Multigenerational Investigation of Voice Onset Time in English-Hebrew Heritage Speakers.

Committee: Samira Farwaneh (chair), Mahmoud Azaz, Leila Hudson, and Adam Ussishkin.

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Essa Alfaifi's headshot.

Essa Alfaifi defended on June 12 and his dissertation title is: AN EMERGENT GRAMMAR MODEL FOR THE LINGUISTIC NOTION OF DIGLOSSIA IN ARABIC AND IN FAIFI

Committee: Farwaneh, Samira, co-supervisor; Archangeli, Diana B, co-supervisor; Azaz, Mahmoud; Yaseen Noorani