This study is an investigation of the religious lives and ritual practices of middle-class Arab Muslim women in the diaspora. The central focus is the influence of the dominant non-Muslim culture on their involvement in home-based and mosque-related formal and informal religious…
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At the juncture of Arab and African histories lies the legacy of al-Busa'idi rule in Zanzibar. This dissertation aims at resurrecting aspects of that legacy, as they related to the politics of identity of the Omani elite in a time framework set between 1880s and 1930s. Relying o…
As the demographic landscape of the United States continues to change, counselors along with other helping professionals are going to be challenged to find ways to meet the varying personal, social, and academic needs of an increasingly multiracial, multi-religious, and multicul…
This study examines U.S. newspaper representation of Muslim-Arab women post 9/11 with an aim of better understanding how women are portrayed in relation to religion, society, politics and the economy. Through a discourse analysis, I examined local articles from across the nation…
Since this country's inception, the flow of immigrants did not cease to be a growing phenomenon. This study focuses on Arab Muslim immigrant populations in the United States. The increasing presence of Muslim immigrants in urban areas, the development of their home environment, …
The Arab community in Chicago consists of two segments, the Muslim-Palestinians and the Christian-Syrians. Although the outside world regards all Arabs as more or less alike, and although they speak the same language, spatial and psychological separation between the Muslim-Pales…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of metacognitive strategy training and learning styles of college-level Arab students on their reading comprehension achievement in Arabic. Specifically, the study investigates the effects of training Arab students in two m…
Although the number of immigrants coming to Canada from Arab Muslim nations is increasing, the research literature focusing on Arab Muslim women living in Canada and their gender perceptions seems limited. Studies focusing exclusively on the connection between Arab Muslim women'…
This study of thirty-nine Saudi women working as managers and decision-makers in organizations, examined the family and societal factors and their impact on these women in their career role within the limits of the Islam and Muslim society. One questionnaire was utilized to coll…
Arab Canadians are a heterogeneous and frequently misunderstood group whose educational background and cultural heritage have received little attention in the scholarly literature. In multicultural Canada, educators, curriculum developers, textbook authors and policy makers rely…
In contrast to the established narratives of late twentieth century Arabic literature, this dissertation argues that gender was fundamental to the construction of politically engaged literature. Typically, the period from the early 1950s through the 1970s is narrativized in one …
The central theme of this study is the question of turath (cultural heritage) as perceived by contemporary Arab thinkers since the Arab defeat by Israel in 1967. The diverse understandings of turath have raised various questions with respect to it, yielding a plethora of opinion…
Humayni poetry emerged out of the strophic poetry that developed in Muslim Spain, was brought to Yemen by Sufis (Muslim mystics) and was adopted by Yemeni aristocrats at the turn of the seventeenth century. Although it used a low linguistic register to varying degrees, from the …
This work is a study in urban history, in particular, one that examines a crucial period in the rise and development of large cities and metropolises in the region of Sogdiana within Central Asia, between the seventh and tenth centuries. The primary focus of inquiry is to show t…
The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of Arab-American Muslims toward seeking psychotherapy in times of psychological distress. Extant literature reveals that individuals within the Arab-American Muslim community experience psychological distress, especially in…
Informed by a century of Arab feminist activism, Arab women writers, from both the Maghreb and the Mashreq, have in the last decades developed a pronounced revolutionary approach to the female body. The body as it emerges in the texts analyzed in this dissertation is a palimpses…
The aim of this dissertation is twofold. First, it intents to make the case for legitimacy as an important framework to understand contemporary Arab regimes. Second, it argues that the continuity of these regimes is contingent on the changing nature of the foundations of legitim…
This dissertation is a comparative study of the effect that imperial conquest had on native etiologies of culture in the pre-modern Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. Following the Greek and Arab conquests of the region, some native elites glorified the cultural "firsts" of t…
My dissertation explores the transnational dimension of Syrian and Lebanese nationalist movements during the first years of French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon. It analyzes the role and transformations of transnational political networks in the particular case of Syrian and Leba…