Goldberg's Saudi perspective, unlike the British perspective of earlier studies, focuses on the marked changes in the years from 1902 to the disappearance of the Ottomans in 1918. By focusing on the roots of Saudi foreign policy, he highlights the distinctive characteristics tha…
"The role indigo has played elsewhere has been fairly well documented, but in the case of the Arab world, little or no thorough investigation has been previously undertaken. This text provides comprehensive coverage of the subject from its earliest history to the present day."
In theory, all that are involved in same-sex practices in Islam based on the common and mainstream interpretation of the story of the people of Lut are treated the same. In reality, however, and in the Arab world today, the penetrated and penetrator are not equally abnormal and …
Throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Member states, a number of significant policy reforms have coincided with significant changes in their socio-economic trajectories. This is especially evident within the employment domain, where a rapidly increasing labour force chal…
This dissertation is titled Masculinities Under Pressure in Beirut’s Independent Music Scenes. In what follows, I aim to show how masculinities interact with other elements of identity including race, class, and sect to form strategies for self-preservation in the face of bleak …
News blogs provide the media and individuals with analyses and information about crises. The researcher looked at the differences between journalist and citizen bloggers in their coverage of crises: natural disaster, terrorist attack and civil unrest. In particular, the research…
In the dissertation, I explore the translation, publishing, and marketing process of Arabic novels in English. My research examines how translations of Arabic novels are produced as a commodity within a globalized publishing industry and circulate in a highly-charged political c…
Political speeches in the contemporary world illustrate a tendency among heads of state of appealing to democracy and democratic concepts regardless of regime type. While the prevalence of this discourse in countries like the United States is unsurprising, the use of discourses …
Researchers and experts on Arab politics have often debated the role of political Shiism as a source of regional instability and conflict following the 2003 U.S-Iraq war. Some argue that the expansion of political Shiism in the Arab world is a quest for political leadership resu…
Using public opinion survey data from Arab Barometer Project Wave I, this study investigates the relationship income and education and support for democracy in six Arab countries: Yemen, Morocco, Palestine, Algeria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Unlike related studies, this study focuses…
Very little has been written on female homosexuality in the Arab world. This paper is an ethnographic account of non-heterosexual women in Lebanon as presented through personal interviews and participant observations with twenty individuals who identify as non-heterosexual and a…
My dissertation deals with the impact of colonialism on how LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, and queer) conceive of their identities and how this has shaped LGBTIQ activism in the Arab World. Current scholarship claims that Arabs in the pre-modern era con…
This study builds on research that has documented the persistence of negative stereotypes of Arabs and the Arab world in the U.S. media during more than a century. The specific focus is Time magazine's portrayal of Arabs and their societies between 2001 and 2011, a period that i…
Western tourism and Gulf tourism in Cairo are grounded in very different cultural imaginations about Egypt as a people, culture, history, and state. Western tourism in Cairo is grounded in a Western vision of Egypt as the remains of a great, ancient pharaonic civilization. Arab …
This dissertation seeks to understand why the Arab world has failed to participate in the Third Wave of democratization. It proposes that the key obstacles to Arab democracy lie in the institutions and political processes that impede the development of Liberal Constitutionalism …
Standardization versus adaptation of advertising has been a subject of great controversy that has been debated for more than 50 years. Scholars have pointed out the increasing demand for more cross-cultural research on advertising content that can contribute to the standardizati…
In the years following the September 11th attacks, Americans increasingly pondered why an ill-defined "they" harbor hostility towards an allegedly cohesive "us." Simply stated, asking the question "why do they hate us?" became cliche. Yet anti-Americanism as a concept remains am…
This thesis examines the social integration of a new media technology. As a communication medium, the World Wide Web occupies an increasingly important place in the transnational electronic media landscape in which the Arab countries are involved. Our aim is to present a general…