This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Iraqi diasporic community in the UK. It is based on two years of fieldwork research I conducted there between 2006–2008. I approach the formation of the diasporic community in light of utopian visions of a past colored by colonia…
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Does exile affect activism and if so how? This question is both perennial and timely given the frequency of political upheaval and the current salience of migration. Non-democracies use exile to end domestic opposition. Existing research has gone someway to challenging the assum…
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted more than 60 years and persists not only in time but also in complexity. This thesis focuses on the Palestinian exile and particularly, the experience of exile of Palestinian women living in refugee camps in Lebanon. Palestinian memory…
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of aging Nigerian professionals living in exile in the United States of America. The research applied a qualitative phenomenological design through in-depth open-ended interviews and observations. The…
This project concerns the intellectual production in exile of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, and Max Aub, all of whom were displaced from the nation they considered their homeland in the 1920s and 30s, and whose separation from that homeland lasted to varying degrees u…
This is a narrative critical study centered around the Gospel of Matthew's use of Isa 6:9–10 and related Isaianic texts. This study seeks to demonstrate the purposeful use of these Isaianic texts within a larger discussion of Matthew's use of the concept of idolatry. Chapter 1 s…
How might the arts help to unveil and integrate realities so as to facilitate shared meanings and understandings between peoples and thus generate the conditions for the participatory, creative cultural diversity which may contribute to the construction of more democratic societ…
The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, US, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, the contributions…
In recent years both OT and NT scholars have given a great deal of attention to the twin themes of exile and regathering. In the present volume these matters are taken up again with an eye towards how the emerging Christian church was able to see in itself the fulfillment of cer…
The relationship existing between the state of exile and the establishment of identity based on gender and hybridity was investigated. Three contemporary Algerian female writers in exile, Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar, and Malika Mokeddem, were studied to determine if the state of …
The thesis of this work is that the diverse perceptions of the exile preserved in the Book of Jeremiah present to us genuine options within ancient Israel, mainly post-destruction, for understanding and responding to the events of the Babylonian Exile. One cannot assume that the…
This dissertation examines the theme of exile in Deuteronomy. Chapter 1 discusses the history of research of Deuteronomy as it relates to both the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History, and the history of research of exile as a theological topic in Old and New Testament stu…
This project examines the effects of exilic theologies on people experiencing personal loss, transience and displacement. The subject of this project--a small congregation that has experienced transience, loss, and change both internally and in its surrounding community--was tes…
The subject of this dissertation is the life achievement of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998). The study follows two tracks, one literary focused on the poetry and biography of the poet, and one historical focused on the concurrent political and social developments in the Ar…
Three distinctive forced migrations of the Southern Kingdom of Judah to Babylon (597 BCE, 587/6 BCE, and 582 BCE), otherwise known to biblical scholars as "exile," were pivotal events in biblical history. Since the beginning of critical biblical scholarship, the exilic period ha…
My dissertation discusses refugee rights and post-repatriation integration in South Asia in the context of debates over "citizenship." Postcolonial state-formation processes in South Asia have profoundly shaped questions of belonging and membership. As a result, official citizen…