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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...