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This dissertation examines the representation of diasporic identity and consciousness in Arab diasporic narratives from Canada and the United States. With a focus on the genre of fiction, the primary works under consideration are contemporary novels by Arab Canadian and Arab Ame…
This study attempts to explain how and why the Twelver Shi'is adopted the guild-based system of jurisprudence first developed by the Sunnis. Drawing on Sunni legal and theological works, it first outlines a theory of legal heresy in Sunni Islam based on the concept of "violating…
The prosody of the stanzaic poems called madrasê, written in Syriac by Ephrem of Nisibis in the fourth century, has long been studied by scholars. Until now, these studies have focused on meter, but this has left many questions unanswered. The present study examines the intercla…
This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the “Arab Question” published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the impor…
This dissertation is a theoretical inquiry into how modern Arab identity was formed during nineteenth century Arab Renaissance or al-nahdah al-'arabiyah. The dissertation closely reads the fiction of Salim al-Bustani and Jirji Zaydan, and the non-fiction of Butrus al-Bustani, as…
This essay investigates Edward Said's construction of a method of representation towards a political visibility of Palestinians in After the Last Sky . I argue that After the Last Sky comes to articulate possible sites of representability, specifically in the relationship betwee…
This study explores the dynamics of colonialism and nationalism in the Sudan, a de facto colony of Great Britain (in nominal alliance with Egypt) from 1898 to 1956, and today the largest country in Africa. Many of the earliest articulators of Sudanese nationalism were graduates …
This thesis is a study of the Egyptian village novel from its origins, with Muhammad Husayn Haykal's Zaynab (1916) to its contemporary elaboration in the work of a selection of novelists from what has come to be known as "the generation of the sixties' in the critical literature…
This dissertation provides the first in-depth study of the Lebanese-American immigrant writer, journalist, and translator ‘Afīfa Karam (1883-1924), an important contributor to the nahda, the Arabic cultural renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Karam published t…
This dissertation is a general study and translation of a large Azerbaijani proverb collection from Iran. This corpus is placed within the context of Azerbaijani culture and history, and in the context of paremiological study in Iran, the Azerbaijan Republic, and the West. The e…
New external evidence is presented in a best fit solution to date the military campaign directed by Amosis I against the capital of the kings of the Hyksos at Avaris in the Nile delta. Recent precise dating of the volcanic eruption on Thera by bristlecone pine frost ring, oak tr…
The field of Comparative Literature has been predicated on the study of distinct national literatures, each presumably possessing essential historical and aesthetic identities which make comparison possible. In this dissertation I contest the idea of the nation in national liter…
Narrative rhythm is the process of patterning through which the reader enacts the text. In contemporary novels, rhythm involves primarily four things: (1) the cadences of words and phrases, (2) the representation of time (3) changes of perspective and (4) the thematization of "h…
In the past two and a half decades rhetorical criticism has been employed extensively to examine individual psalms, and in more recent studies the canonical shape or structure of either the entire Psalter or books therein have been the focus of attention. This dissertation utili…
In the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the reemergence of a specifically Palestinian nationalist movement coincided with an explosion in the popularity of the Arabic novel. The writers highlighted within these pages were deeply involved, from varying positions, in the struggl…
This dissertation offers a political and cultural analysis of the contemporary conflicts in Northern Ireland and in Israel/Palestine. I argue that these conflicts stem from the collapse in the 1960s of the original partition settlements in both of these regions, and that this co…
This dissertation studies the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the rnid-1800's to mid-1900's. It elucidates the reciprocal nature of processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant gro…
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate and discover the function of fifteen Hallelujah Psalms (Pss. 104-106; 111-113; 115-117; 135; and 146-150) in the context of the Hebrew Psalter. Their form and setting-in-worship were examined in chapter 2. They are typical of t…