Research degrees

Doctoral dissertations under preparation

• Kjersti Gravelsæter Berg: 'Aiding Palestinians. The Changing Role of United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) 1949-2000' (History).
• Janne Bjorheim Bøe: 'Household economy and patriarchy in the southern Levant in a moment of economic crisis' (Anthropology)
• Kjetil Fosshagen: 'Cultures of nationalism in Cyprus: An historical and anthropological perspective on the Cyprus conflict' (Anthropology)
• Katja Jansen Fredriksen: 'Muslims in Norwegian civil courts' (Law)
• Henriette Hafsaas: 'Fruits of civilisation: A social history of people and fruit trees in the central Palestinian mountains during the Bronze age' (Archaeology)
• Bård Helge Kårtveit: 'Christian Palestinians on the West Bank: Identity, Migration and Transnational Networks' (Anthropology)
• Liv Ingeborg Lied: 'Israel's Land according to 2 Baruch' (History of Religions)
• Lars Gunnar Lundblad: 'The Islamic principle of zakat - almsgiving. Processes of institutionalization and politicization in Palestinian society' (Sociology)
• Renate Lunde:'Building bonny babies - missionary welfare work among poor women and children in Cairo 1920-1950' (History)
• Kristoffer Momrak: 'Concepts of power and the origins of democracy - a comparative analysis of politics in Archaic Greece and the Acient Near East' (History)
• Richard Natvig:'The Zar-cult in Northeast Africa and the Middle East' (History of Religions)
• Pål Steiner: 'The iconographic transformation of the Egyptian New Kingdom funerary ritual' (History of Religions)
• Vahram Ter-Matevosyan:'Reconsidering the Kemalist discourse in the Republican Turkey' (History)
• Elena Vezzadini: 'The social background to the 1924 revolution: Colonialism, socio-economic changes and the rise of the first Sudanese nationalist movements' (History)
• Zerihun Woldeselassie: 'Ethnicity, Local Islam and the State in Post-Socialist Ethiopia: Politics of Development and Identity Proceses in Siltie' (Anthropology)
• Mona Helen Farstad: Carving space in early Islam: Analysing disources in the Qur'anic stories of Maryam (History of Religions)
• John Erik Saetren: Islamic Discourse in New Media: New Forms of Islamic Preaching
  
  

• Astrid Arstad: 'Sufism in Egypt' (Arabic).
• Sunniva Lye Axelsen: 'Suicide in Islam' (Arabic).
• Tasim Karim Birkeland (Arabic).
• Linn Bratsberg: 'The Egyptian debate on female circumcision' (History of Religions).
• Simen Bach Ekblom: ' British policy and the 1920 rebellion in Iraq' (History).
• Kristin Finne: 'Pragmatic politics and practice. The history of the development policies of Hizbollah' (History).
• Magnus Halsnes: 'The British policy in Mandat Transjordan in the 1920s' (History)
• Brynjel Hanssen: 'Fritjof Nansen's Armenia project: The defeat of charity to realpolitik' (History).
• Kjell Hausman Mathisen: 'Hureidha revisited. Social straticifation in a south Arabian town thirty years after Abdalla Bujra' (Anthropology).
• Ida D. Heierland: 'Artifacts, Interests and Agencies - The Merowe Dam case' (Archaeology).
• Anders Jakobsen: 'Oil and politics in Iran' (History).
• Linda Kjosaas: 'Ahmad Fuad Nigm and political zajal in Egypt 1960-1980' (Arabic).
• Daniel Kvamme: 'Nation-building in Lebanon' (History).
• Lars Møller-Pedersen: 'The Danish capitulations and the Ottoman empire in the 19th century' (History).
• Ingrid Mydland: 'Adaptation strategies among Somali women in the diaspora' (Geography).
• Kjersti H. Nerhus: 'The Orient and the Oriental in "I æventyrland"' (Nordic Languages).
• Ingvill Sjøvold Nilsen: '"How has the pursuit of competing nationalist identities resulted in the failure of the Middle East peace process?' (Political science).
• Lene Nordli: 'Islamism and politics' (Political science). Times before and after 11 September 2001' (History of Religions).
• Ranveig Nygård: 'Palestinians in exile. Identity and ethnic boundaries among young Palestinians in Syria' (Anthropology).
• Elisabeth Eide Olsen: 'Muslim youth in New York' (History of Religions)
• Vegard Pettersen: 'The coverage of Islam and Muslims in New York
• Anna K. Polster: 'The Egyptian state and female emancipation' (History).
• Gunhild Raunsgard: 'Norwegian Peoples Aid in Lebanon' (History).
• Jannicke Risjord: 'Arabic Media' (Arabic)
• Astrid Rundereim: 'Christian Palestinian refugees in Lebanon' (Anthropology).
• Agnes Rokkan: 'Indirect rule and the tribal system of south-central Sudan' (History).
• Even Rydningen: 'Conflict resolution in Syria' (Anthropology).
• Sindre Saltnes: 'Norwegian enterprises and the Saudi bureaucracy (Arabic).
• Ida Berg Slang: 'Identity and language in Tunis. The significance of French in a North-African society' (Anthropology).
• Sverre Stordal: 'Norwegian enterprises in the Middle East' (History).
• Harald Storhaug: (Arabic).
• Sunniva Strand: 'US Middle East policy and its relation to domestic politics' (Political science).
• Kjetil Sundsdal: 'Ideology in Uruk societies' (Archaeology).
• Espen Svendsen: 'The Canaanites and the gospel according to Judas' (History of Religions).
• Thor-Asle Faye Syversen: 'Young Muslims in Bergen' (History of Religions).
• Elisabeth Sæther: 'Women NGOs in post-revolutionary Iran' (History).
• Simon Tangen: 'Norwegian enterprises in the Middle East' (History).
• Jovard Valen: 'The views of Yusuf al-Qaradawi'. (Arabic).
• Monica Voll: 'The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and the royal power' (History).
• Pegah Zomorodi: 'Religion, law, stigma, and social control. Divorce amongst migrant Pakistani women (Anthropology).
• Maryon Østhus: 'Ebla in Bronze Age Syria' (Archaeology)
• Linn Årvik: 'Fear in the Israeli Society' (Anthropology)