Browsing by Department "Middle Eastern Studies"
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25 years of gender mainstreaming in Jordan : evolution and progress
(2020-05-18)Since the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, countries have taken many approaches to gender mainstreaming. Gender mainstreaming policies were created to be context specific to account for the variety of ways that policy ... -
A historical grammar of case in Arabic
(2017-08)The dissertation provides a description of the diachronic development of nominal case marking in Arabic. It does so by integrating all available Arabic data, including especially newly identified corpora of Arabic dating ... -
A new generation “returns” : fracture, disorientation, and tragedy in Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina and Rabai al-Madhoun’s Maṣā’ir
(2019-07-09)This thesis explores the concept of return to Palestine as presented in two recent novels, Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina (Becoming Palestine) and Rabai al-Madhoun’s Maṣā’ir: kūnshirtū al-hūlūkawst wa-l-nakba (Destinies: ... -
A paradoxical friendship : Romanian-Iranian relations during the Ceausescu era
(2023-04-19)In a seemingly paradoxical manner, Romania and Iran, two states with staunchly different ideological systems and entrenched in opposing camps, maintained remarkably close cooperation during the height of the Cold War. ... -
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 ... -
Accommodationist Islamist political organizations : authoritarian settings and US foreign policy
(2020-05-09)Islamist parties tend to be the most developed political parties in authoritarian Middle Eastern and North African states. When elections are called for, Islamist groups historically outperform their competitors to win ... -
"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 ... -
Alienating Iranians from their environment : irrigation, flood control, and public health in late Pahlavi Khuzestan
(2018-05-02)This thesis explores the changing relationship between rural Iranians, the state, and the environment in the mid-20th century through a regional study of the province of Khuzestan, in southwestern Iran. This research differs ... -
Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India by David Lelyveld
(The Journal of Asian Studies, 1979) -
Allegiance and honor : women's rights in Jordan
(2004-08-16)The dominance of conservative tribal representation within the Jordanian Parliament and the strong ties the Monarchy has historically maintained with the tribal East Jordanian population has ensured limited rights to women, ... -
Alon Hilu’s Death of a Monk as transgression
(2022-05-06)Alon Hilu’s Death of a Monk (mot ha-nazir, 2004) is a historical novel about the Damascus Affair (1840) and the blood libel’s consequences for Aslan Farhi—a Jewish adolescent whose family was under suspicion during the ... -
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 ... -
"And this I": the power of the individual in the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzâd
(2005)From the time she began publishing in 1954 to her death at 32 in a car accident about thirteen years later, Forugh Farrokhzâd composed poetry that challenged some of the most fundamental precepts of conservative, patriarchal ... -
Anglo-American missionary medicine in Gaza, 1882-1981
(2021-05-03)For a century, scholars of Palestine have wrestled with the repercussions of missionary efforts in the region. Most scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century educational and ecclesiastical endeavors, as innovations in ...
