Master Thesis Abstracts for English Language/ Literature

 

Academic year 2023-2024

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1. Dark Romanticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851): A Comparative

Sally Sami Al-Shahatit

 Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

29-05-2024 

English 

PDF

2. Double Jeopardy: Palestinians’ and Native Americans’ Resistance for Justice in Selected Palestinian and Native American Works

Nour Osama Mohammad Barakat

Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith  

26-05-2024 

English 

PDF

3. Challenging Elizabethan Expectations of Gender Role in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1594), Hamlet (1601), Macbeth (1606) and King Lear (1608): A Feminist Reading

Leen Ismail Al-Qaisi

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

12-05-2024 

English 

PDF

4. American Fictions; An Ecocritical Analysis

Eman Hasan Orabi

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

16-01-2024 

English 

 PDF

5. The Situation of Arab Women in Fadia Faqir’s My Name Is Salma and Willow Trees Do Not Weep

Lama Mahmoud Zaidan

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

15-01-2024 

English 

 PDF

6. Identity  Transformation  and  Language  in  George  Orwell’s  1984,  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald’s  The  Great  Gatsby,  and  Ernest  Hemingway’s  The  Sun  Also  Rises:  Critical  Analysis

Rawan Ahmad Abu Judeh

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

14-01-2024 

English 

 PDF

7. Identity and Decolonization in Selected modern African Literary Works

Roaa Emad Ahmad Hussein

 Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

11-01-2024 

English 

 PDF

8. The Road to Equality: A Feminist Analysis of Women’s Liberation in Heartbreak House (1919), The Glass Menagerie (1944), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): A Comparative Study

Maysa Ali Khaleel Zarkan

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

11-01-2024 

English 

 PDF

9. Depiction of Familial Relationships in American Literature during the Great Depression in The Glass Menagerie, Gone with the Wind, and The Grapes of Wrath: A Comparative Study

Muthana Nayef Abu Nab

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

– 

10-01-2024 

 English 

PDF

10. Betrayal in Selected works by William Shakespeare

Dalia Mohammad Albuhaisis

Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith  

 –

10-01-2024 

 English 

PDF

11. Romanticism in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850): A Comparative Study

Nour Ryad Abukhadra

Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith  

– 

09-01-2024 

English 

PDF

12. Conformity in Veronica Roth’s Divergent and Insurgent: A Cultural Approach

Mohammad Saleh Al-Teehi 

Dr. Muna Abd Rabbob

 08-01-2024

English  

PDF

13. The Problem of Identity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960)

Aseel Alkassasbeh 

Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith  

 –

 07-01-2024

 English  

PDF

 

Academic year 2022-2023

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1.The Image of Women in Foe and Age of Iron by J. .M. Coetzee: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

Wajed Mohammad Mubarak

 Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

 12-06-2023

English 

 PDF

2. Treatment of Immigrants in Behold the Dreamers, Men in the Sun, The Land of Sad Oranges and My Antonia.

Takwa Mousa Al-Aaraj

 Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith

 7-06-2023

English 

 PDF

3.Displacement and Identity Crisis in Things Fall Apart, Returning to Haifa, and My Antonia

Raneem Ibrahim Mansour

 Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith

 6-06-2023

English 

 PDF

4. Tradition VS Progress in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart , Arrow of God , and No Longer at Ease : A Postcolonial Perspective

Mayar Khalil Alrawahna

 Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

 5-06-2023

English 

 PDF

5. Defamiliarization (Ostranenie) and the Development of Drama: A Study of Selected Plays

Heba Mammdouh Al-Diques

 Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith

 30-05-2023

English 

 PDF

6. Social and Political Power in Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses and Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin: A Critical Study from a Postcolonial Perspective

 Abdallah Yahya Alghoul

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

– 

17-01-2023 

 English 

PDF   

7. The Failure of Love Theme in Selected Works of Edith Wharton

 Hiba Ghazi Taher Jamous

Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith  

 –

16-01-2023 

 English 

PDF    

8. A Critical Study of Selected Trench Poems by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Mikhail Naimy 

 Salsabeel Jehad Hassan Abu Zalata

 Prof. Ibrahim M. Abu Shihab

– 

15-01-2023 

English 

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9. The Portrayal of Colonialism and Racism in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to
India (1924) and George Orwell’s Burmese Days (1934).

Fatima Mahmoud Saleh Ismail 

 Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

11-01-2023

English  

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10. The Role of Wealth in Selected Novels by Charles Dickens: A Tool of Corruption or Social Reform!

Marwa Amin Alsahoory 

 Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

 –

 10-01-2023

 English  

PDF    

11. Animal Symbolism in Selected Literary Poems: A Multicultural Approach.

Jumana Nedal Mizher

 Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

09-01-2023

 English

PDF 

12. Character Transformation in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds: A Comparative Study

Islam Eid Mohammed Al-Olaimi  

Prof. Abdul-Qader Al-Khattab 

 –

04-01-2023

 English

PDF 

 

Academic year 2021-2022

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1.The Treatment of Women in African Literature in Chinua Achebe’s
Things Fall Apart (1958) and Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
(1969), The Collector of Treasures, and Other Botswana Village Tales
(1977)

Asma Yasin Ismail Nashwan 

Prof. Abdul-Qader Al-Khattab

 –

12-06-2022

 English

PDF 

2.The Portrayal of the Inner Self in Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient, AJ Finn’s The Woman in the Window, and Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train

Walaa Mohammed Saed Al-Nuiamat 

 Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

– 

01-06-2022 

English 

PDF  

3.The Patriarchal Authority and Disempowerment in Hamlet
(1601) by Shakespeare, the Duchess of Malfi (1612) by John
Webster and the Fair Maid of the West (1631) by Thomas
Heywood: A Comparative Study.

Sara Mahmoud Ben Tareef

 

Prof. Ibrahim Abushihab

 

  30-05-2022

English

PDF 

4. A Magical Salem in Rowling’s Harry Potter

Rasha Muhammad Al-Saied 

 Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith

– 

  17-05-2022 

English

PDF 

5.The Problematization of Love in Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello and
Antony and Cleopatra

Muhammad Al-Trawneh

 Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith

  11-05-2022 

English

PDF 

6. Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Suspense: A Study of Selected Tales

Israa A. Jaber Abu Marie

Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

– 

18-01-2022 

English

PDF

7. The Culture of Resistance in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water

Farah Mahmoud Shahin

Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

Prof. Tahrir Hamdi

16-01-2022 

English

 PDF

8. The Adaptation of the Character of Shylock in Shylock is my Name and Operation Shylock

Heba “Ahmad Farook” Jaradat

Prof. Sura M. Khrais

 –

 16-01-2022

English

PDF 

9. Biracial Identity in The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Killing Karoline and Caucasia: A Cultural Approach

Malak Anwar Khader Aljuhani

Dr. Muna Abd Rabbo

 –

 13-01-2022

English

 PDF

10. Aggressive, Wicked and Powerful Female Characters in Shakespear’s Macbeth (1606), King Lear (1608) and Taming of the Shrew (1594): Feminist Perspective

Aseel Mohammad Aladwan

Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

 –

 12-01-2022

English

 PDF

11. Post-Apocalyptic Pandemic Fiction: Ancestral Portrayal of Ravaging Human Plague

Majd Reyad Al-Btoush

Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

– 

02-01-2022 

English

PDF 

12. Family Disintegration in Tennesses William’s the Glass of Menagerie, Tracy Lett’s August: Osage Country and Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night: A Comparative Study

Alaa Abbas Abdulla Al-Hadidi

Prof. Asad Al-Ghalith

 –

 30-11-2021

English

PDF 

 

Academic year 2020-2021

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1. The Relationship Between the Natural and Supernatural in Three Selected Gothic Novels

Majd Nahar Saleh Alhmoud

Prof. Taher Badinjki

– 

19-08-2021 

English

PDF 

2. The Patterns of Father-Daughter Relationship in Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Critical Study

Hadeel Mohammad Ahmad Abu Helweh

Prof. Ibrahim Abushihab

 –

 12-08-2021

English

PDF 

3. Alien Invasion of Earth in Three Selected Science Fiction Novels: The War of the Worlds, The Childhood’s End, and Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy

Sara Khalil Zaki Abu Zannad

Prof. Taher Badinjki

– 

29-07-2021 

English

PDF 

4. Seduction and the Stereotypical Portrayal of the Seducer and the Victim in Selected Victorian Novels

Darweesh Mustafa Darweesh Abu-alhommos

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

26-05-2021 

English

PDF 

5. Intersectionality and Western Oppression of Muslim Females in Three Selected Novels

Aya Mohammad Abdallah Al-Hadidi

Prof. Taher Badinjki

– 

24-05-2021 

English

PDF 

6. The Systematic Power of Anti-Black Racism in Heart of Darkness, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Underground Railroad and Beloved

Samar Muhamad Nabil Al-Saudi

Prof. Taher Badinjki

– 

 23-05-2021

English

 PDF

7. Can the Subaltern Speak?Marginalised Females in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

Mai Hussein Yousef Abusal

Prof. Sura Mohammad Khrais

 –

04-05-2021 

English

 PDF

8. Fragmentation or Hybridity: The Representation of Place and Identity in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz

Razan Yousef Alhanuti

Prof. Sura Mohammad Khrais

 –

 08-04-2021

English

 PDF

9. The Anti-Marriage Sentiment in Selected Late Victorian Novels

Yasmeen Mohammad Ahmad Othman

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 20-01-2021

English

PDF

10. Discrimination and Racism in Kenndy’s The Funny House of a Nigro, Fugard’s “Master Harold”.. And the Boys, Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith, and in The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

Sanaa Mahmoud Hamdan Abu Al-Adas

Dr.Akram Shalghin

 –

 19-01-2021

English

 PDF

11. George Bernard Shaw and the Liberation of Women: An Analytical Study of Selected Representative Plays

Shrouq Mahmoud Mohammed Sa’deh

Dr. Akram Shalghin

– 

18-01-2021 

English

 PDF

12. The Child-parent Relationship in The Night Child, My Name is Lucy Barton, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Lullabies for Little Criminals: An Eriksonian Approach

Aseel Ahmad Hassan Nasrallah

Dr. Muna Abd Rabbo

– 

17-01-2021 

English

 PDF

 

Academic year 2019-2020

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1. The Misrepresentation of Female Characters in Fifty Shades Trilogy

Maimouneh Mohammad Khair Maharmeh

Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

Prof. Sura Khrais 

 25-08-2020

English

PDF 

2. Identity Crisis in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and The Lowland: A Post-colonial Study

Ala’ Waleed Ali Alzahlan

Prof. Ibrahim Abushihab

Prof. Sura Khrais

 23-08-2020

English

PDF 

3. The Evolution of Cleopatra in English Drama: A Post-Colonial Perspective

Saif Al-Din Jamal Mustafa Al- Jazarah

Prof. Mahmoud Al- Shra’ah

 –

 03-06-2020

English

PDF 

4. Empowering the Other! The Image of the Self and the Other in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and July’s People

Mohammad Ghalib Al-Abead

Prof. Ibrahim Abu Shihab

Prof. Sura Khrais

26-05-2020 

English

 PDF

5. Examining Dictatorial and Totalitarian Practices in Dystopian Literature through a Study of Selected Works

Layla Aqil Mohammad Yousef

Dr. Akram Shalghin

– 

17-05-2020 

English

PDF 

6. The Colonial Practices and Pretensions in Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, and Burmese Days

 Hadi Salah Jobeihi

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

15-01-2020 

English

 PDF

7. The Influence of the Social Environment on Moulding the Child’s Character: A Critical Analysis of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Hard Times and Great Expectations

Ayah Waleed Ali Alzahlan

Prof. Taher Badinjki

13-01-2020

English

PDF

 

Academic year 2018-2019

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1. Detective Novel and its Significant Elements: A Critical Analysis of The Woman in White, The Sign of the Four, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Skull Beneath the Skin

Heba Abdelftah Ibrahim Abulehya

Prof. Taher Badinjki

19-08-2019

English

PDF

2. The Portrayal of Crime and Criminals in Selected Novels of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Hard Times, and Our Mutual Friend

Lina Taysir Alzouabi 

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 19-08-2019

English

PDF

3. The Colonial Encounter in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle: A Postcolonial Perspective

 Ola Suliman Saleh Said

Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

 –

28-07-2019 

English

 PDF

4. Aspects of Poverty and Poor People in Selected Novels of the Hungry Forties in the 19th Century

Mounira Nawaf Koujah

Prof. Taher Badinjki

– 

22-05-2019 

English

 PDF

5. The Dynamics of Hybridity in Diana Abu Jaber’s The Language of Baklava and Life Without a Recipe

Salsabil Jamal Jaber

Dr. Muna Abd-Rabbo

 –

31-03-2019 

English

 PDF

6. Morality and Corruption in Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

 Fatima Khaled Mahmoud Hassan

Prof. Tawfiq Yousef

– 

17-03-2019 

English

PDF 

7. The New Woman in A Doll’s House and Pygmalion

Maram Shaltaf

Prof. Tawfiq Yousef

– 

10-03-2019 

English

PDF 

8. Women’s Status in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Sabrin Mousa Yasin

Prof. Tawfiq Yousef

– 

13-01-2019 

English

PDF 

9. Feminism and Womanism in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games

 Amal AL- Ajeilat

Prof. Tawfiq Yousef

– 

03-01-2019 

English

 PDF

10. The Portrayal of Male Muslim Characters in Monica Ali`s Brick Lane

 Areen Abukishek

Prof. Tawfiq Yousef

 –

02-01-2019 

English

 PDF

 

Academic year 2017-2018

 Title

Researcher

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Date of discussion

Language of the Thesis

Abstract

1. The Multifaceted Portrayal of Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Amal AL- Filali

Prof. Tawfiq Yousef

19-07-2018

English

PDF

2. Preaching to the Nerves : Gothic and Sensation Mania

Manal Ahmad Bajes Majali 

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

15-07-2018 

English

PDF 

3. Differing Concepts of Womanhood and Marriage in Selected Victorian Novels

Noor Mohammad Thaher Alkilani 

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

23-05-2018 

English

PDF 

4. That is Me in the Spotlight: A Study of Selected Autobiographical Novels

Haneen Adnan Shaltaf 

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

 22-05-2018

English

 PDF

5. Narrating the Social Progress of England in Selected Novels of Charles Dickens 1837-1861

Abeer Odeh Abdat 

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

17-05-2018 

English

 PDF

6. Factory Novels: The Treatment of the Working Class and The Industrial Issues in The Early Victorian Era

 Haya Mohammad Ababseh

Prof. Taher Badinjki

 –

10-05-2018 

English

 PDF