Sher Sweet and Ted Thornton
Final Projects by Order of Oral Presentations
MONDAY, SECOND BLOCK
Jesse Lopata - Growing Muslim Presence in France
David Lee - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
Cassie Taylor - Women and Politics in Kuwait
Devers Talmage - Religious and Social Life in the United Arab Emirates
MONDAY, THIRD BLOCK
Arielle Mills - The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran
Stephanie Randall - Muslims in China
Spencer Russell - Baathists Versus Shiites in Iraq
Peter Duplissie-Johnson - Sunni-Alawi Relations in Syria
TUESDAY, SECOND BLOCK
Kayci Wickline - Civil Unrest in Post-Soviet Chechnya
Jeff Kwan - Muslim Opposition Groups Versus Mainstream Islam in
Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Ben Weyers - The Impact of Islam on the Politics of Pakistan
Christina McCausland - The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan
TUESDAY, THIRD BLOCK
Esther Gutow - Conflict Between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia
Dayoung Song - Jordan's Peace Treaty with Israel and Opposition from
Jordanian Muslim Groups
Maggie Higby - Peace Movements in Palestine: The Work of Mubarak
Awad
Sarah-Anne Tanner - The Lebanese Civil War
WEDNESDAY, SECOND BLOCK
Jing Gao - The Role of the Sudanese Government in the Darfur Crisis
Britt Lillienthal - The Decline of Mali
Randy Lin - Civil War in Sierra Leone, 1991-2002
Chidera Anamege - Attempts to Impose Sharia Law in Nigeria
WEDNESDAY, THIRD BLOCK
Isabelle Morse - Sunnis and Sufis in Côte d'Ivoire
Cherrielle Newkirk - Militant Islam and Civil War in Algeria in the 1990s
Teresa Ramos - Political Chaos in Somalia and Islam's Role There
Pat Peltier - Rivalry Between the Issa and the Afar in Djibouti
THURSDAY, SECOND BLOCK
Religious Studies quiz and History notebook check.
THURSDAY, THIRD BLOCK
Woo Shin - Oil, Religion, and Politics in Saudi Arabia
Caroline Banfield - Influence of Islam on Law and Politics in Morocco
Rachel Rubin - The Tension Between Islam and Modernization in Turkey