Adolescent girls in an Arab village in Israeli's Galilee work exceedingly hard in order to excel in their high school studies, and succeed in doing so. This research delves into the reasons for their high motivation. The dissertation is based on a year of participant-observation…
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People of different cultures tend to have different cognitive processing styles. Philosophers throughout the years have believed that culture fundamentally shapes human social practices and intellectual processes (Nisbett, 2004). Cognitive styles have been found to be significan…
Purpose. This study's research objectives were to (a) describe the general health status of Arabs, (b) describe their cardiovascular risk factors, (c) estimate perceived physical activity self-efficacy and levels of physical activity and exercise, (d) estimate determinants of ph…
Recent critical analyses of Eugène Delacroix's North African œuvre have focused on its position within the French conquest of Algeria. Although scholars see a colonialist bias in his few paintings of Arab women, his imagery of men has been largely ignored. Yet during his trip to…
This dissertation examines how urban space, Jewish Arab sociality and local/national identities are both represented and produced in ethnically mixed cities since the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Against the background of a century-long conflict between t…
This dissertation studies the relationship between television news and the state in Lebanon. It utilizes and reworks New Institutionalism theory by adding aspects of Mitchell's state effect and other concepts devised from Carey and Foucault. The study starts with a macro-level a…
Hassan II ruled as the highly-centralized king of Morocco from 1961 through 1999, one of the longest uninterrupted reigns in late twentieth-century history. Unlike most other Arab kings who survived the sociopolitical pressures encapsulated by Samuel Huntington as "the king's di…
The business and family networks that linked pre-colonial eastern and central Africa to the Swahili coast, the Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar, and southeastern Arabia are vital to understanding the social and economic history of the region in the nineteenth century. Omani Arab…
After years of vacillating on Palestinian national aspirations, the majority of Americans have come to favor "the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza strip." Reflecting that shift in public opinion, through the "roadmap," President Geo…
This study explores questions of bias in the U.S. “prestige” press in relation to Mideastern conflicts. It attempts to explain the social, political, economic, organizational and technological forces influencing the gatekeeping process of the newsroom and foreign correspondents.…
This study examined the impact of the Internet and multimedia use on the pronunciation and oral communication skills of Arab students learning English in a university in southwestern United States. The study included a qualitative research using face-to-face interviews, an open-…
Concepts pertinent to the identification of a maqām, or melodic mode in Arab music, include intervallic ordering, pitch hierarchy, and performance rule called sayr. These concepts were examined with data gathered from qualitative and quantitative methods. First, interviews with …
Since the introduction of modernity to the Arab World in 1798, the Arab World has experienced three attempts of modernization called (Arab Nahdha projects). These projects served as the theoretical and practical agenda for social change, designed for achieving liberty, progress …
Living in the United States creates unique challenges in biliteracy and bilingualism for the Arab family. While extant literature provides insight into the literacy interactions and experiences of families from many other cultures now living in the U.S., there is next to nothing…
Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to examine the similarities and differences between Arabic and English speakers in their language use in panel news interviews. Using discourse analysis, this study performed a descriptive, comparative, and analytical exam…
This dissertation examines Britain's attempt to create and maintain a friendly independent state in South Arabia during the period from 1956 to 1967. After the evacuation from Suez in 1956 the Crown Colony of Aden became the centerpiece for British policy in the Middle East. The…
Scope and method of the study. The purpose of this study was to examine the models of capital structure theory in the Arab world, an environment that is different from that where the theory was born i.e. Western economies. A sample of 3–6 year panel data from the 12 Arab countri…
This study focuses on the images of women in Arab music videos. The music video has been chosen because it is a new phenomenon in Arab culture, particularly in Arab Gulf countries. This study examined the representation of women in Arab music videos, a practice which started in …
This research provides a comprehensive analysis of Arab countries barriers to intra-regional imports. In view of the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area (PAFTA) liberalization initiative, it assesses welfare gains and losses, terms of trade benefits to domestic producers, the impact on tar…