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Tracing their origins to early twentieth century immigrants from Syria and Lebanon, Brazilians of Middle Eastern descent gained greater visibility as “Arabs” today. In the public sphere, they oversaw multi-million dollar business ventures, represented ten percent of federal cong…
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…
Despite amounting to a mere one percent of the population of the Byzantine Empire, the Jews there left a lasting mark on the economic development of the region, particularly in the sector of textile trade and production. At the same time, the Jews engaged in an entire set of pro…
This study was driven by a curiosity related to the utility of using western texts in teaching in Jordan. In these texts, the value of a practice grounded in the NPR is highlighted. Numerous psychiatric models of NPR have been established to guide nursing practices with patients…
The thesis examines why business people from various economic sectors in the Middle East and North Africa have continued to support authoritarian regimes in spite of the fact that these regimes failed to satisfy several of business' fundamental interests. Studies of business reg…
This study examined the word recognition and word integration skills of Japanese and Arab ESL speakers who were enrolled in intermediate and advanced level courses in two pre-academic ESL program. The purpose for this study was to identify and examine the different types of read…
European assumptions and concerns have impacted the study of Arab musical manuscripts, from Marin Mersenne's earliest investigation in the seventeenth century to early twentieth-century comparative efforts. While topics such as Italian Humanism, Rameau's acoustic theories of sca…
Employing a non-random sample survey and in-depth interview, I explore the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five Cegeps in Montreal. Being non-random, this sample is not representative of the whole population of Arab-or…
The Middle East state system has been defined not only by its multipolar structure but also by the exclusion of the region's hegemonic power: the prohibition against Israel interacting normally inside its regional environment. The system which formed was marked by a distinct int…
During the early Cold War, the United States depended on Middle Eastern oil to sustain European reconstruction and defense. Its extraction involved a series of arrangements among oil-producing and -transit states, petroleum corporations, and the western allies known collectively…
The objective of this dissertation is to understand why young Sicilian musicians since the late 1980s have created a contemporary popular music genre that can be generalized as Sicilian World-Music. The basic hypothesis is that new musical genres and styles, including those exam…
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…
Globalization and the Reconciliation of Dissonant Hybrid Identities explores the way Canadian-Arab youths make sense of the multiple cultural systems they are exposed to. It also identifies the processes of individual agency whereby youths reconcile dissonant experiences in the …
This study examines and compares the realities of the Gulf War as constructed in two Arab, and two North American newspapers. The textual analysis of the New York Times (NYT), the Globe and Mail (G&M), Ad Dustour, and Al Ahram revealed the frames that were used in interpreting t…
This dissertation examines cultural and communicative practices occurring in French cités (low-income housing projects) as part of an ethnographic inquiry into the relationship among subcultural style, social stigmatization, and expressive culture. Based upon ethnographic fieldw…
This foundational qualitative study examined the history, meanings and practices of academic freedom at Arab universities. Eight professors who had experience teaching at Arab universities and one university president were interviewed. Results indicated that Arab higher educatio…
A study of President John F. Kennedy's policy toward the Middle East illustrates the agency and unexpected power wielded by so-called “third world” countries during the Cold War era. In spite of careful planning in Washington, Middle East leaders often manipulated and directed K…