ACMES Thesis Prize 2021
The winners and nominees for the ACMES Thesis Prize 2021 are:
Bachelor
Winner:
- Renske Hollants. “Male perception of CEDAW implementation: Palestinian civilian aversion in the settler colonial context. A virtual ethnographic approach to the Facebook page Al-ḥirāk al-jamāhīrī li-isqāṭ CEDAW”
Nominees:
- Hana Elramly. “The Effects of Cultural Imperialism on the Representation of Taboo Subjects Among North African Youth”
- Annemarie van der Grift. “Code-switching tussen Egyptisch en Engels door Egyptische Youtubers”
Master
Winner:
- Asma Balfaqih. “Power in Settler-Colonial Terms: Tracing the Constructed Legal Frontiers of Palestinian Identity in Israel”
Nominees:
- Kerttu Åvall. “A special touch in the Arab world when it comes to women. Postcolonial logics in EU gender equality discourses on Lebanon”
- Eleri Connick. “Blurring the Distance. A Study of Revealed Emotions of the British Libyan Diaspora”
ACMES Thesis Prize 2020
In 2020, our winners were:
Bachelor
Winner:
- Rowie Rensink, “Twee is Genoeg”. Een kritisch onderzoek naar ontwikkelingsdiscoursen in de Egyptische gezinsplanningscampagne ‘2 Kefaya’ en de Nationale Bevolkingsstrategie. Over imperialisme, geïnternaliseerd oriëntalisme en moderniteit
Nominees:
- Emma du Chatignier, The Religious Ideology and Political Practice of Neturei Karta
- Thirza Snoek, Soefisme in de poëzie van Salah ʿAbd al-Sabur
Master
Winner:
- Marthe de Roos, Making a home in Palestine. Revealing the true colours of the Israeli ID card system
Nominees:
- Daan Dijk, Kingship and the Rule of Law in the Third Hebrew Commonwealth
- Yentl de Lange, Understanding the determinants of migration. A case study of Libyan Tuareg
- Anouck de Wringer, Trauma as a Life-World. Lived Experiences of Space, Time and the Body in "The Queue" and "Otared"
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ACMES Thesis Prize 2019
In 2019, our winners were:
Lisa Schouten (BA Arabic Language and Culture): Van Madīnat al-Salām naar mainstream: een onderzoek naar de emancipatoire boodschap van Mahragānāt. Een case-study van het oeuvre van al-Sādāt al-ʿĀlamī
Verena Hoeke (MA Islam in the Modern World): The contribution of Sunni Islamic scholars and Muslim medical scholars to the discussion on transgender sex reassignment surgery in Islamic bioethics
- ACMES Thesis Prize 2018