Browsing by Department "Middle Eastern Studies"
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Abu Ghraib and the activation of complicity : deconstructing the frame
(2015-05)This paper discusses the publication and public consumption of digital photographs made by members of the United States military depicting torture and sexual abuse carried out upon detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad ... -
Abu Maher al Yamani and the unheralded Palestinian leadership in 1950s Lebanon
(2015-05)Ahmad abu Maher al Yamani, born in 1924 in Suhmata, Palestine, was one of the foremost refugee leaders in 1950s and '60s Lebanon. A school principal by occupation, Yamani built and directed the leading civic associations ... -
"Advanced" Arabic : investigating learners’ lexical richness in the context of an oral interview
(2013-08)This study used recordings produced in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) to investigate the quantity and lexical richness of second language (L2) Arabic ... -
The aesthetics and politics of rumor : the making of Egyptian public culture
(2012-12)Whether as a distinct cultural form, or as a problem exaggerated and imagined by a paranoid interpretive bent, “rumor” (al-ishāʿa) claims a place in the writings of many Egyptian intellectuals, littérateurs, journalists, ... -
The aesthetics and politics of rumor in modern Egypt
(2010-05)This thesis is an investigation into the aesthetic and political functions of “rumor” in modern Egypt. While previous studies have emphasized the formal or structural features of the genre, I seek to analyze the discursive, ... -
Ahmad Kasravi and the Controversy over Persian Poetry. 1. Kasravi's Analysis of Persian Poetry
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Al-Muwāfaqāt fī Uṣūl al-Sharīʽa, volume I : premises (translation and analysis)
(2009-12)Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā b. Muḥammad al-Lakhmī al-Shāṭibī al-Gharnāṭī – „al-Shāṭibī‟ – was a fourteenth century Granadan Mālikī religio-legal theorist and jurisconsult. His best known work – al-Muwāfaqāt fī uṣūl al-sharīʽa ... -
Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India by David Lelyveld
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The ambiguous frame : Iranian women's death images within the Islamic Republic's visuality
(2013-08)Many photographs of women published in the Iranian press during the Iran-Iraq War emphasized their roles as supportive and mourning mothers and sisters. By contrast, the often gruesome images that depicted women’s deaths ... -
An approach to classifying listening strategies in the Arabic as a foreign language classroom
(2016-08)This report sets out to reclassify listening strategies in a way that renders them more transparent to both Arabic language instructors and students, thereby enabling instructors to integrate direct listening strategy ... -
The animal at the scene of writing : narrative subjectivities of the Lebanese civil war
(2010-08)This thesis inquires into anti-humanist trends in Lebanese literature of the civil war and post-war period by examining the limit concept of the animal in three novelistic works: Beirut Nightmares [Kawābīs Bayrūt] (1976) ... -
Another other : redefining feminism on Al-Jazeera
(2014-05)Women and women’s issues receive a great deal of attention on Al-Jazeera English, increasing the visibility of feminist ideologies in the transnational media and promoting a space for new and greater feminist discourse. ... -
Antun Saadeh in the mahjar, 1938-1947
(2016-05)Antun Saadeh (1904-1949), the founder of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, has often been labelled a political and ideological imitator of European fascism. This association has led many to gloss over an important feature ... -
Arab Jews, Mizrahi studies and Shimon Ballas' Outcast
(2012-05)This report examines the novel Outcast by Israeli author Shimon Ballas and its themes in respect to the prominent debates in the field of Mizrahi studies. It discusses the prominent scholars who deal with the history of ... -
Arabic connectives in native speaker and non-native speaker expository and argumentative writing
(2016-05)This study investigated how native speakers (NS) and advanced non-native speakers (NNS) of Arabic use connectives to signal semantic relations in expository and argumentative writing. This exploratory, descriptive study ... -
The Arabic verb : root and stem and their contribution to verb meaning
(2011-12)This dissertation is a study of the construction of meaning below the word level, specifically how roots and morphemes combine to create verbs, and the contribution of each to the meaning that a verb construes. It uses ... -
Arabization in Algeria : language ideology in elite discourse, 1962-1991
(2016-05)Taʿrīb, or Arabization, translates simply to “making Arab that which is not.” For the elite of independent Algeria, Arabization signified the policy of substituting Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) for French in politics, ... -
Archiving the present in Beirut’s southern suburb : memory, history, and power at Umam Documentation and Research
(2016-05)Umam Documentation and Research, a private archive and non-governmental organization located in the Beirut’s southern suburb, states as its goal to “initiate collective reflection on the many different types of violence ...
