This study examined perceptions of Arab American parents of children with special needs regarding communication with the school and professionals who work with their children. The Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States and had students with sp…
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Social historians tend to study Yemen migration through the lens of western capitalism. In so doing, they focus on modern events that shaped the movement of Yemenis out of south Arabia and dismiss the elements of mobility that have defined Yemen for millennia. This work aims to …
This study analyzes four representative novels by contemporary immigrant women writers, namely, Shaila Abdullah's Saffron Dreams , Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home , Laila Halaby's West of the Jordan , and Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf in order to examine how these wr…
Purpose. The aims of this study are to develop and examine the psychometric properties of a 48-item The Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes, & Beliefs Scale (C-KABS), to evaluate the Cancer Screening Action Model (C-SAM), and to generate knowledge regarding the attributes of cancer scre…
The dissertation is divided into three manuscripts. The first manuscript reviews the literature on HTN status in Arab countries and identifies promising areas for future research and interventions. This review of literature revealed that HTN is prevalent among Arabs and supporte…
A surprising number of women from the Levant who came to the United States between 1878 and 1930 were educated women. The women from this region, even those who were uneducated, were remarkably successful in adapting to their new environment when compared with immigrant women fr…
This study examined Arab Americans' use of the Internet as a functional alternative to traditional U.S. mainstream media. The study employed the theory of the uses and gratifications to understand Arab Americans' most salient motive for using the Internet, and whether the Intern…
With an increasing number of Arabs migrating to the United States in the recent years, and augmented social stressors of this group post September 11, 2001, it is imperative for the mental health field to reach and provide help to this population. However, the lack of assessment…
Arab Americans are a rapidly growing population in the United States; however, sparse research exists that examines their mental health experiences. As such, this study investigated factors influencing mental health with the Arab American population in the United States. There i…
The number of Arab-American households has almost doubled in recent years, increasing from 268,000 in 1990 to 427,000 in 2000 (Asi & Beaulieu, 2013). This is a growing immigrant population that has not been examined thoroughly. In this dissertation, the impact of immigration on …
Whether having immigrated to or born in the United States, Arab American children and adolescents grapple with the degree to which they maintain their heritage culture's traditions and values, and the degree to which they participate in mainstream American traditions (Berry, 199…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore if September 11 had an influence on the relations between non-Arab and Arab Americans in Detroit. The data of the study were collected from 10 participants, five non-Arab and five Arab Americans. Through the i…
Sexual violence (SV) is considered to be a serious public health problem, with far-reaching and enduring ramifications on the physical and psychological well-being of survivors (Basile, Chen, Black, & Saltzman, 2007). The extent to which factors such as family support, religiosi…
Since the 19th century, people of Middle Eastern descent have come to the United States for a new beginning. However, throughout the decades, Arab/Middle Eastern/Muslim ethnic groups have faced stereotypes and backlash as a result of many historical events, in relation to Middle…
This dissertation traces the anxieties surrounding Syrian migrant peddlers and their economic networks at the turn of the twentieth century and argues that this profession, which employed large number of Syrian men and women, constituted Arab immigrants as at once racial and sex…
This multiple case study aimed to characterize the home learning environments of six Arab American families who had at least one child of kindergarten age to understand parents' perspectives about their roles in their children's early learning experiences and in preparing their …
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of perceived discrimination, ethnic identity, and social support as predictors of academic efficacy and general self-efficacy in Arab American adolescents. The sample consisted of 85 adolescents who participate in services…
Existing theories and research have indicated that ethnic identity is crucial for ethnic minority young adults because ethnicity is an important component of their personal identity that is likely to influence various aspects of their development. Given the centrality of this co…
Despite the significant increase in the number of Arab immigrants living in the United States over the past few decades, the literature lacks adequate information about this group's health behaviors in relation to important health outcomes. This group of immigrants may have diff…