This study aimed to identify the influences on the development and sustainability of education for librarianship and information management. It analysed the factors that contribute to the development of education for librarianship and information management, drawing on theories …
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This research study explored the meanings attributed by migrant Arab Muslim women to their experiences of childbirth in the UK. The objectives of the study were: • To explore migrant Arab Muslim women's experiences of maternity services in the UK. • To examine the traditional ch…
In Chapter one, I presented a comparative definition of the meaning of Sirah (PI.Siyar), Tarjamah (Pl. Tarajim), Manaqib, Tabaqat and Maghazi as they were understood in antiquity. I also showed how the meaning of Sirah in modern times has only narrowly developed. Although the me…
This study argues that ideological rather than material constraints are the major obstacles that limit full female participation in the Saudi Arabian labour force and hinder Saudi working women from combining their double roles as mothers and paid workers. As a developing countr…
This study takes as its starting point the generally accepted fact that there exists a gap between architectural education and architectural practice in Saudi Arabia. It seeks to answert he following researchq uestions: What is the magnitude of the gap? How does the gap manifest…
This study of the motivation to learn English as L2 (as a second/foreign language) provides a local model of L2 motivation which employs a new contextualised perspective. It is based on the socio-cultural backgrounds of the learners and their social relations. This model not onl…
This phenomenological study tackles the question of the nature and dynamics of a shift in worldview that may occur on multiple levels after an Arab American cross-cultural experience. The study examines critical questions of the nature of such cultural encounters especially in l…
Le sujet de cette thèse est la pensée arabo-musulmane actuelle, par ses déterminants et ses expressions. C'est une analyse d'un discours théologique à travers la méthodologie d'un philosophe. Certainement, la question de la modernité est centrale dans les débats intellectuels ar…
Romantic love is a topic largely absent from the social scientific inquiry in the Arab world. Although it has deep historical, literary, and artistic roots in the region, many scholars have traditionally reduced romantic relationship formation down to family-facilitated arrangem…
Why has legal and judicial reform in the Arab region failed in promoting the rule of law, ensuring judicial independence and safeguarding democratic values: prerequisites for economic, political, and social development? This dissertation attempts to address this failure in the c…
This dissertation sought to deepen understandings of emotion and its role in human personal and social life by exploring how a group of Arab immigrant health care providers, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in one clinic in the United States, assign mean…
According to Richard Peace, "How we conceive of conversion determines how we do evangelism" (1999, 286-9). Through inductive coding and qualitative content analysis, this research investigates the common themes found in the faith journeys of twenty-four Muslim background believe…
This dissertation draws on modern theories of the exotic in order to critique racialized, consumer-oriented representations of Arabs. Such representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a thre…
This study examined factors associated with the utilization of formal and informal services by Arab immigrant women experiencing partner abuse. The study employed a cross-sectional survey using face-to-face interviews with a convenience sample of 67. The survey included question…
This dissertation argues that Arab mediation is distinctive from mediation that occurs in countries in other parts of the world in terms of the likelihood of Arab countries choosing it as a method of conflict resolution, in terms of the manner or process by which it is conducted…
In early 1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a new U.S. policy for the Middle East known informally as the Eisenhower Doctrine. The Eisenhower Doctrine was expressed in a congressional resolution declaring the intention of the United States to offer increased econo…
This study used a mixed method convergent parallel design to explore the attitudes that Arab first-generation immigrants in Canada have towards marital therapy and what they wish counsellors knew when working with their community. Data was collected from 86 Arab immigrants using…
Contemporary representations of the veiled Arab woman in US popular culture are often determined by the attending stereotype of Arab women as oppressed and silent victims of their own culture, a stereotype that has endured for over a century in the US as manifested in the recurr…