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…
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 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…
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…
The Doha-based, pan-Arab "al-Jazeera Satellite News Channel" came to life on November 1, 1996 by a Qatari Emiri decree, and began a 24-hour operation on February 1, 1998. Although sponsored by an autocratic government that is similar to other Arab regimes in terms of the wide ga…
In this dissertation, I analyze the representation of black otherness as an emerging trend within the new wave of Khaleeji literature from a historical and cultural point of view. I contend that the modern Khaleeji novel challenges systems of oppression by looking into the disco…
Arab Muslim women have been portrayed by the West in general and Western Feminism in particular as oppressed, weak, submissive, and passive. A few critics, Nawar al-Hassan Golley, is an example, clarify that Arab Muslim women are not weak and passive as they are seen by the West…