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"