This dissertation explores how the contradictory historical processes set in motion by the politics of empire, nationhood and sovereignty in the Middle East are critically refracted through everyday practices of kinship and self-making in Palestinian refugee communities in Tyre …
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Romantic love is a topic largely absent from the social scientific inquiry in the Arab world. Although it has deep historical, literary, and artistic roots in the region, many scholars have traditionally reduced romantic relationship formation down to family-facilitated arrangem…
This paper examines Lebanese history textbooks and debates surrounding reform of the history curriculum to show how history education functions in postwar Lebanese society. Although the Ta'if Agreement ending the civil war called for a unified history curriculum to foster nation…
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…
Based on one year of interviews, participant-observation, and archival research in Iran and Lebanon, this dissertation addresses the following question: how did the Islamic Republic of Iran instrumentalize rural development to consolidate power at home and to project influence a…
During the Arabic cultural renaissance of the nineteenth century known as the nahda, Christian Arabs made a substantial contribution to the development of fiction and journalism. Among these pioneers, Salim al-Bustani, Jurji Zaydan, and Farah Antun were inspired by translations …
This dissertation examines the history of the translation of the European novel into Arabic from the middle of the 19th century until the 1930's primarily in Egypt and Lebanon. It studies the complex exchange in this particular context of translation under different forms of Bri…
As the War in Iraq continues to rage, many in the White House, State Department, Department of Defense and outside government are left to wonder if it was possible to foresee the difficulty the United States is currently having with Sunni nationalists and Islamic extremists. Rec…
I argue that of the many ways to examine Lebanese film, the best is through sect. Traditional categories and methods of textual analysis such as class, race, gender, psychoanalysis and semiotics can be used to read film, but sect can, as a new category of analysis, provide a far…
This study is concerned with the definition of the morphology and function of small, thin, bitruncated rectangular microliths, Nachcharini rectangles, found in Post-Natufian deposits at the site of Mugharat en-Nachcharini in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of the Levant. The analysis…
The response of the organized Jewish community in Canada to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon serves as an historical case study concerning the impact of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on the relationship between the pro-Israelism phenomenon and Jewish identification. Israel advo…
Childhood obesity is a worldwide epidemic, and prevention through schools is the best way to target childhood obesity. In Lebanon, no school-based obesity intervention has been reported in the literature. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a 4-week, cultura…
Drawing upon ethnographic research in Lebanon between 2007-2009, this dissertation presents a description and analysis of the `maps of meaning' of two young Palestinian exilic groups, both situated in Lebanon and exposed to the same official exclusionary practices, but in distin…
The Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) witnessed the prominence of the voluntary sector through the active involvement of existing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the emergence of new ones as service providers in response to the social, educational and other community need…
This thesis examines leaders‘ behaviours differential effects on the work/home balance of their followers through a leader/follower fit perspective. The study explores perceived effects of leader‘s actions on followers‘ work/home balance in a Lebanese context. At the individual/…
This thesis examines the case of civil marriage in Lebanon as an example of the contestation of sectarian identities and a political system. Sectarianism in Lebanon and in the Middle East has become not only a seemingly naturally-produced social categorisation, but also the hege…
There are seventeen million people in the world who are stateless, not considered as citizens by any state. They suffer due to the current function of citizenship in the nation-state system, occupying a legal space outside of the system, yet, their lives are very much blighted b…