"The aim of this monograph is to understand the extent to which the landscape of Roman Berytus and the Bekaa valley is a product of colonial transformation following the foundation of Colonia Iulia Augusta Felix Berytus in 15 BCE. The book explores the changes observed in the ci…
This dissertation examines the processes through which Beirut, a town on the periphery of the Early Islamic Empire (7th -9 th century C.E.), was integrated into a nascent Islamic landscape. Chapter 1 describes the role of Umayyad naval policies in the creation of communal and ad…
This dissertation uncovers aspects of the emergent imaginative relationships, affiliations and visions of the world for Arabs, Muslims and Americans in the age of globalization. Drawing on methodologies from literary criticism, political economy and cultural and media studies, t…
This dissertation presents a reading of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that flourished in Beirut between 1955 and 1975. It explores how the poets and theorists of this group, centered around the magazine Shi'r, redefined the parameters of Arabic poetry through their mult…
This dissertation investigates domesticity as a site for the production of modernity in late Ottoman Beirut. It focuses specifically on the material aspects of the home in trying to understand its formation in relation to urban management, intellectual discourses, and changing t…
"What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspectiv…
"What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism―popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective…
What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective…
Muslim immigrants’ adaptation to Western values has been a concern by different US governments. Their religious culture and the relationship of their country of origin with the United States have racialized them as a flux of un-assimilating underclass who are resistant to the We…
My dissertation employs Armenian media sources in Lebanon to track the shifting dynamics of internally and externally constructed identifications of the Armenians in Lebanon from 1946-1958. I describe and analyze the debates that informed evolving conceptions of individual and c…
In geography, "Landscape and Memory" studies focus on the politicized relationship between place and history, referring to this as the "politics of memory." These studies frequently over-privilege two specific foci: nationalism and formal institutions, a focus which excludes the…
This thesis aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between the city and civil conflict and violence. The thesis is building on the explanation that urbanisation and cities are at the heart of societal transformation as complex forms of social life and not as previ…
Refugees form a growing and complex concern for countries around the world particularly as their numbers and status remain liminal for decades creating destabilizing conditions within their host countries. This dissertation sought to uncover the ways in which policies towards re…