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…
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Dans la presente these, il est question d'une etude a deux volets du parler arabe de la region orientale du Maroc. Dans les trois premiers chapitres, il s'agit d'une etude phonologique et dans le quatrieme et dernier chapitre, d'une analyse acoustique qui vient consolider la pre…
This study uses editorial type samples of writings from Arab newspapers as well as samples from TV discussion panels to determine Arab ideologies and opinions in response to the attacks against America on September 11, 2001. The written opinions are from three Egyptian newspaper…
This dissertation focuses on the foreign policy attitudes of the United States in regard to the role of the Soviet Union in the Middle East. In particular, it will examine the events leading up to the creation of the State of Israel, and the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis; two events wh…
Research on immigrant communities has long been concerned with relationships between identity and political and organizational activity in host society contexts. Traditional theories of assimilation, for instance, have posited that diminishing participation in ethnic-based organ…
This dissertation traces the evolution of Faysal's alliance with Britain roughly from 1916 to 1921 and attempts to examine the motives and calculations which might help explain this alliance. The discussion also includes an assessment of the effect of this unequal alliance on th…
Does governance affect international trade? In other words, does the existence/lack of voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption within two countries enhance/restrict their bilateral trade?…
Neorealism's lack of attention to minor states in the international system stimulated this study. This study is an attempt to incorporate minor states into the theory of the international system. In order to achieve this objective, a model was developed to study international re…
This exploratory investigation aims to identify best practices associated with classroom-based professional development programs and examine the relationship between culture (both values and geographical regions) and learning preferences of Arab leaders. Existing research indica…
The problem studied is whether and to what degree Damascus and its hinterland were transformed by the capitalist world economy of the nineteenth century. This problem is pertinent in light of developments on the Syrian coast, including Palestine and Lebanon, where commercial agr…
This dissertation draws on modern theories of the exotic in order to critique racialized, consumer-oriented representations of Arabs. Such representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a thre…
In the late 1990s, a number of events unfolded in the Arab world which seemed to challenge the idea that Arab states had fundamentally realigned themselves in the American camp after the demise of the Soviet Union. This dissertation examines some of these events using three empi…
This study examined self-construal, ethnic identity, and conflict management styles among young male Arabs studying in the United States (n = 185) and American college students (n = 145). Findings indicated that Arabs had a stronger ethnic identity than Americans. Both cultural …
This dissertation explores the construction of identity in conversations about literacy with a group of ten Arab graduate students of English, attempting to answer the question: "How do Arab graduate students of English construct their identities through their literacies in Arab…
The study has addressed the following research question: "What are the perceptions, attitudes, and values of the various stakeholders, both Arabs and Jews, regarding what they consider to be the root causes of the Bagrut test score gap between Arab students in Israel and their J…
The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between a change in stereotype rating of photographs and the critical thinking skill of the rater. The groups rated for the study were Black, Middle Eastern/Arab, and Skinhead, each represented by three photographs of male g…
This dissertation is an examination of US public diplomacy efforts in the Arab world during the Eisenhower administration, focusing primarily on the US response to Egypt and Arab nationalism. The primary contribution that this study makes to the literature on US relations with t…
Around six million women become pregnant in the United States each year. Although pregnancy is a basic biological process that for most women is a time of excitement and joy, it can be a time of problems (Nannini, Weiss, Goldstein, & Fogerty, 2002). Health behaviors in early pre…
Most histories dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict treat it as if it emerged following the issuing of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, and the subsequent occupation by Great Britain. However, this dissertation, by examining Ottoman, Arabic, and Hebrew documents, will d…