December 2000 Fada'el al-Rahman al-Tammouni successfully defended her master's thesis at the Department of Architecture at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. The thesis is entitled The Evaluation of HUDE's Projects in Terms of Preferences. Mohammad al-Qazzaz successfully defended his master's thesis at the Department of Architecture at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. The thesis is entitled Developing a Locale - Driven Methodology for Cultural Site Management in Jordan. Ola Jarrar successfully defended her master's thesis at the Department of Architecture at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. The thesis is entitled the Applicability of Sustainable City Paradigm to Arabic-Islamic Cities: A Case Study of Jerusalem, Palestine. Sireen Feidi successfully defended her master's thesis at the Department of Architecture at the University of Jordan. The thesis is entitled Historical and Morphological Transformation of Urban Spaces in Old Nablus, Palestine.