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 autobiography serves as a testimony to labor events that lead to the January 25, 2011, that was shortly aborted thereafter. It throws the shadow over the reasons why Egyptians revolted in the first place and moves into a day-to-day walkthrough how it played out until the fa…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine cultural differences and relationships within the Arab American community, utilizing Lee's love styles, to better understand how courtship and relationships are closely linked. I focused on investigating how Lee's Love Style Theory …
The Arab Istiqlal (Independence) Party in Palestine, established in 1932, was the first explicitly nationalist Palestinian Arab political association to undertake mass, populist political organization. A study of the Istiqlal Party thus provides a vehicle for answering the quest…
This dissertation considers discourses bearing on the social dynamics of immigration and postcolonial diversity in contemporary France in light of their interconnections with issues of sexuality and assimilation. Synthesizing and building on recent work by anthropologists, socio…
By 2020, cancer mortality rates are estimated to increase by 180% in Arab countries, where breast cancer is the most common type of cancer. This thesis explores and evaluates the ‘asabiyya-driven structuration (the cohesive force of the group that gives it strength in facing its…
As administrators in international schools become more familiar with theory and research in intercultural relations, they are compelled to examine what they are doing to support their teachers in managing cultural differences so that teachers and host-country parents can work cl…
BACKGROUND: Though significant gains have been made in preventing cervical cancer over the past 30 years, it continues to cause morbidity and mortality among women in the United States, particularly among those women who are screened infrequently or not at all. More than half of…
This study is a feminist historiography of Al-Raida, a Lebanese feminist journal introduced in 1976 by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University. This study recovers foundations of modern Lebanese feminist discourses as they are arti…
European colonial interest in the Arab lands is generally assumed to have begun with Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798. Bonaparte's expedition marked the beginning of the progressive subjection by the major European colonial powers of the time, France and Britain, o…
Through a sociocultural lens, this study examines five Saudi Arabian engineering graduate students' valuation of English writing, their self-perceptions of writing, what promoted the development of those self-perceptions and how their self-perceptions compare with engineering in…
West African pastoral groups (Arab, Tuareg, Toubou, and Fulani) experience contests both within their society, and, with outside agents regarding state integration, land use and development. Pastoral leadership, neighboring sedentary groups, national governments, multinational c…
This study will take an economic historical approach to the Arab Spring in an attempt to discover why citizens across the Middle East and North Africa rose up against their respective governments and demand change. The study will focus, more specifically, on Egypt and Tunisia wh…
The purpose of this study examined whether candidate ethnicity, specifically one perceived to be Arab versus one perceived to be White, would effect candidate evaluation and choice of who to interview in a simulated managerial decision making situation. Further, this research ex…
Arab immigrants in Brazil established a thriving Arabic and Portuguese-language literary culture in cities such as São Paulo at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Their writing ponders issues such as identity, cultural heritage and belonging to m…
This thesis examines inter-ethnic relations in contemporary Arab fiction in three national contexts: Germany, Canada, and the United States. The following texts are included in this study: Die Sehnsucht fährt schwarz: Geschichten aus der Fremde (1988), Erzähler der Nacht (1989),…
Developing Arab Music is an exploration of how musical change has been and continues to be discussed and implemented by 20 th- and early 21st-century musical innovators, educators, and performers in Cairo, Egypt. The first part of the thesis traces the establishment of instituti…
My dissertation debates whether in an ostensibly borderless world, poetry, as a cultural product, can counter the claims of capital and empire and deconstruct the borders around nations, languages, and bodies. American poets Etel Adnan, Agha Shahid Ali, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha…
This study investigated the impact of participation in the Seeds of Peace International Summer Camp program on attitudes toward perceived enemies and in-group members. Specifically, individuals' social dominance orientation, stereotype attributions, closeness to own and out-grou…