This study attempts to explore the strategies that have succeeded in preventing democracy from establishing itself as a viable system of government in the Middle East. It measures authoritarian success not only by total years of non-democratic rule, but also through an assessmen…
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This dissertation analyzes the effects of mandatory education and child allowance programs on Arab women's labor force activity and fertility patterns in Israel. In the case of mandatory education, it also looks at effects on age of marriage. It is divided into two chapters, eac…
Did the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, carried out by extremists from the Middle East, affect the way Hollywood portrayed Middle Eastern characters in films? This content analysis compares Middle Eastern characters in films from the five years before September 11, 2001…
E-learning is currently viewed by Arab government officials as a viable solution to their educational problems (UNESCO, 2002b; Bubtana, 2003; Aldhafeeri & Almulla, 2006). As a result, significant investments by local, regional, and international organizations have been made to i…
This dissertation is the culmination of four years of exploratory ethnographic research investigating the impact of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks on Arab Muslims, intergroup relationships and community life in working class neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ, that came under…
This acculturation study examined the role of media among a sample of Arab women immigrants living in Metropolitan Detroit, home to the highest concentration of Arabic-speaking communities in the United States. This inquiry used a communication perspective with in-depth intervie…
Researchers believe that Arab immigrants are at risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Little is known about health behavior and lifestyle practices of this population after their migration to the United States. A thorough search of the literature revealed a significant s…
Using samples of Integrated Public Use Micro-data Series (IPUMS) from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census, this dissertation focus on two main objectives: the first objective is to examine the labor market assimilation and changes in cohort quality of Arab immigrants (as a homog…
The purpose of this research was to examine the Tsurutani's assertion that leadership requirements of commitment to national development, dominance and skills affect political stability. In order to conduct such an examination, the cases of Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's Sadda…
Learning at a distance requires more self-direction and autonomy since the bulk of the responsibility for learning is transferred to the learner. However, not all learners are able or willing to handle this burden, which results in dropping out from the system or silently strugg…
The purpose of this study was to determine the status of Mu'tah University faculty attitudes and their perceptions of the competencies of teacher education programs regarding the integration of technology into classroom instruction in the Kingdom of Jordan. This research intende…
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…
This study examined the production of lexical stress by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic, English, and Arab learners of English. Experiments 1 and 2 examined the acoustic correlates to lexical stress in Arabic. Experiments 1 and 2 show that Arabic speakers produce stressed sy…
The global "wave" of democratic movement appears to have halted at the shores of the Middle East. Prevailing theories concerning Islam and democracy blame the region's lack of progress in democratization on historical, cultural, doctrinal or intellectual factors. As important as…
Scope and method of study. "Muslim/Arab Women in America" is a qualitative study of the conflictual encounters between the traditionalism inherent in the participants' foundational culture and the rather radical, pro-feminist American cultural orientations and practices. The stu…
The dissertation seek to establish three theses. First, if secularism (defined as the separation of religious and political institutions) is a realistic and valid model for regulating the interaction of religious and political institutions, the extension of its usefulness is sev…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among critical care nurses' attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions to provide culturally congruent care to Arab Muslims. A purposive convenience sample of 208 critical care nurses p…
Islam and the West, a dualistic phrase that gained sudden ascendancy following the events of September 11, 2001, is used variously to refer to the mutual relationship between Muslims and those living in a sometimes ill-defined region called "the West." The binary phrase in quest…
This dissertation reports the results of several studies which investigated the content and structure of a cultural domain of virtue concepts among Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslim immigrants in the Chicagoland area. In the first part of the dissertation, I argue that virtues and vi…