Discussion of each oral report will begin with a question or comment from the previous presenter on the list (discussion following the first presentation will begin with a question or comment from the last person on the list).

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Vince Van Nes                            Pre-Islamic Arabia

Eli Spector                                    Drawing the Borders of the Modern Middle East

Andrew Gray                              Ataturk

Robby Stack                                Sayyid Qutb

Tassos Bareiss                           Water and the Middle East

Hanna Reeves                            Oil and the Middle East

Jeff Arthur                                   Lebanon’s Political Crisis, 2006-Present

Scott Pelton-Stroud              The Gulf Wars

Deenie Schlass                           Kashmir

Zach Bitzer                                   The U.S., Pakistan, and the Anti-Soviet Jihad in Afghanistan

John Foley                                    Benazir Bhutto

Sharon Dunmore                     Osama bin Laden

Sam Allen                                      Waziristan

Mike VanCott                             Afghanistan’s Drug Trade

Dylan Freehauf                         HAMAS and the Palestine National Authority

Ji Kim                                               Fatima Mernissi

Brian Plungis                              Education in the Arab World