This study attempts to empirically investigate this phenomenon by examining Saudi school leaders’ EI and the relationships between leaders’ EI and their work, thus augmenting and taking forward extant research in the field. The value of EI was also evident to me during my work a…
In 2018, Israel passed the Basic Law, or more commonly known as the nation-state bill, explicitly stating that Israel is exclusively the state of Jewish people and that national self-determination in Israel is unique to Jews. While some revered the bill for being crucial in a ti…
Although 60% of university students in Iran are females as a result of huge investments in women’s education, highly educated females occupy only 10% of leadership positions (Arasti, 2012). The purpose of this study was to clarify from Iranian female business leaders’ perspectiv…
This study sheds light on the Abu Dhabi Public School employee’s perception, transformational, and transactional leadership style and their nuanced effects on satisfaction, commitment, and turnover intention. The study found that transformational leadership increased satisfactio…
This dissertation aims at exploring the barriers to the adequate implementation of the legislation, policies and regulations related to the employment of women with disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the private sector. It uses Article 27 of the United Nations Conven…
The author presents the lack of deep-level change in the lives of sincere Christians in relation to emotional maturity challenges as a problem in ministry for the Evangelical Christian Alliance Church in Damascus. He created an intervention called the Emotional Health Disciplesh…
This dissertation is titled Masculinities Under Pressure in Beirut’s Independent Music Scenes. In what follows, I aim to show how masculinities interact with other elements of identity including race, class, and sect to form strategies for self-preservation in the face of bleak …
This research was conducted to update previous studies of the springs of the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan). Approach: 76 springs were surveyed in between March and July 2018: 15 Saudi Arabia, 41 Oman and 20 Jordan to ascertain the current status, water qualit…
The Baghdad–Berlin Railway played a central role in the modernization of the City of Mosul, including its urban form, its architecture, and its housing. The development of railway infrastructure led to the opening of new streets, particularly Nineveh (Ninawa) Street, and the est…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been considered as a key for health care quality. EBP is defined as a problem-solving approach to clinical practice by the integration of systematic search and critical appraisal of the most current evidence to answer clinical questions while co…
Oil is the primary source of income for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA); fluctuations in prices have a direct impact on KSA’s economy. Large fluctuations, usually sudden dips in oil price such as those seen in 2015 when oil prices dropped to below 40 per barrel, are leading to…
Using personal interviews and works of art, I bring into focus the suffering of Iraq’s people who lived through the sanctions period (1990-2003) under the regime of Saddam Hussein. In particular, I examine the effects of the sanctions regime on their everyday lives in regard to …
This dissertation explores the overlapping histories over the past century of state violence against both Armenian and Kurdish communities in the province of Van in southeastern Anatolia, with attention to the politics of memory as well as the material environment. It addresses …
This dissertation consists of three chapters that explore matters of distribution and growth in Palestine during the last 50 years. Rather than follow a limited neoclassical approach that merely explores mechanisms of markets, the dissertation applies a political economy approac…
Real estate business leaders who fail to attain and sustain competitive advantage to increase profitability during periods of unstable or declining markets, experience either lost profits or bankruptcy. In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the brokerage market is saturated with over …
In this thesis, I try to explore the changing role and development of public libraries in Turkey since the turn of the twentieth century, especially following the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. More specifically, I wish to examine whether and how demograph…
Syrian refugees in Egypt are using educational centers to support the preservation of their culture and way of life. This thesis takes an in-depth look at four educational centers and their cultural path through the education system and life in Cairo. Looking at literature on id…
This thesis analyses two different TRT series to reveal when and how Turkishness is reproduced on television. These two series are Sevda Kuşun Kanadında and Seksenler. The thesis makes use of an interpretative approach in which the components of themes, music, contexts, characte…
This text aims to contribute to the ever-shapeshifting futurity of Palestinians through the frames of temporality and spatiality, most notably through the archive and construction of language. This thesis works in the Palestinian condition, observing the use of what I call Pales…