"In Isis in a Global Empire, Lindsey Mazurek explores the growing popularity of Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together archaeological, art historical, and textual evidence, she demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods such as I…
"In Isis Pelagia : Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively …
Looting valuable artifacts in wartime is a practice as old as warfare itself. Historical examples of this are still visible today, from Trajan’s Column in Rome to recently rediscovered art seized by the Nazi Party during World War II. Historically significant sites are often tre…
Political psychologists have identified patterns in the use of cognitive categorization for the structuring of the political worldview of foreign policy decision makers. This dissertation uses a case study approach to investigate the political worldview of the Islamic State of I…
The purpose of this paper was to explore the possible reasons for a Roman to have chosen a Nilotic scene for the subject of a wall painting and to analyze the significance of Nilotic scenes through their context within the home. The analysis focused on a fragment of a wall paint…
Khilaphah is at the heart of IS’s strategy to lure Muslims to their ideology and it is one of the most important factors that are conducive to the migration of western young Muslims to fight for this self-declared state. Given the fact that Muslims in the Western countries are e…
This thesis examines the turn to conflict in Syria during 2011 to see if it is revolutionary in nature and if so, why has it not succeeded? This thesis aims to analyze the anatomy of Syria's "revolution" in order to determine the causes behind the initial popular mobilization an…