Part1: The proposals should consist of:

1. Two or three sentence description of a potential research topic and an explanation of why this is an interesting and important topic

2. The research question (what is the specific question that you seek to answer in the paper)

3. Your hypothesis (what is a tentative answer to the question you seek to answer)

4. An initial bibliography that includes the sources you have used so far. All sources should use the author/date/page system of either the Chicago Manual of Style or APA Manual of Style. Instructions and guidelines for both styles can be found here: https://libguides.marybaldwin.edu/c.php?g=42934&p=…

5. For at least three of the sources you have read, write short annotations (a few sentences summarizing the main points of the book or article, explaining how it is relevant to your question or problem, and declaring whether or not it is a good, useful source). At least one of these annotated references must be for a book or academicjournal article.

Part2: 10-page paper on a Middle Eastern or North African country of your choice.
– Your paper should address one of the themes covered in the course using qualitative methods (e.g.process tracing).
– In writing this paper, effectively and efficiently, analyze data using qualitative methods, and select their case-study.