Mustafa is an Emory senior from Huntsville, Alabama. He is double majoring in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) and Political Science. After Emory he plans to attend law school. While at Emory’s Oxford campus, Mustafa completed an honors research project focused on ethnic minority leaders and miss killings in the context of civil war. Now Mustafa is able to continue this research through his senior thesis. His current project focuses on the 1991 Uprisings in Southern Iraq. His goal is to distinguish the uprisings as a seminal moment in modern Iraqi and modern Shia history. Mustafa credits the wealth of resources in Emory’s libraries and the wonderful professors in the MESAS department for the ability to conduct this research. He says the most valuable aspect of his research has been “challenging my preconceived notions about the Middle East, where my parents come from. I learned to distinguish between certifiable facts and what I have been brought up to understand and believe”. He believes research like his will be able to dispel ignorance and aid the progress of society.
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