This dissertation explores how Arab media, cinema and fiction especially after the election of President Barack Obama, assert the value of America as a potential source of ‘change’ while attempting to renegotiate the Arab and Muslim worlds' positions in the international system.…
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The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 had an overwhelming geopolitical impact on Western Europe which included a discursive shift that depended greatly on the ideological construction of this event by its contemporaries for its consequences. In other words, the nature o…
This dissertation addresses a significant gap in the historiography of science: the nature of the language sciences as "science." Focusing on disciplinary and intellectual developments in the context of Imperial Germany (1871-1918), the project anticipates, complicates, and help…
The news media serve as the Canadian public’s main source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This thesis examines the ways in which the Canadian media portray the conflict, through a lens of Habermas’ (1962) public sphere theory, Foucault’s (1926 – 1984) idea…
The study opens with a discussion of texts by “outsiders” who positioned Turkmenia as a space worthy of exploration between 1921 and 1927. Chapter One examines two essay collections by the Eurasianists— Iskhod k vostoku. Predchuvstviia i sversheniia. Utverzhdenie evraziitsev( Ex…
The purpose of this research is to examine the experiences of first-generation, highly educated Iranian women who came to Canada to pursue further education in a ‘just’, ‘safe’, and ‘peaceful’ place. The research has revealed that these women who were fleeing from an ‘oppressive…
Jorge Asís's narrative voices are transformed from on text to another. The Arab-Argentine author creates multiple narrators that interact with one another to further develop their textual identities. Discussions of authorial and narrative voices often coalesce into broad stateme…
Scholarship on Jamal ad-Din Al Afghani focuses on the apparent contradiction in his writings between those addressed to a European audience and those addressed to an Islamic audience. This paper resolves that contradiction by placing Al Afghani within the discourse of orientalis…
In assessing the field of history in the United States in the introduction of A Global History (1999), L. S. Stavrianos lauds the successful transition from an irrelevant and misleading, traditional West-oriented history to a new global-perspective history; while in the new intr…
In the process of defining the Self, cultural, ethnic or religious differences often serve to mark the boundaries of identity. One preeminent example of the interplay between images of Other and Self can be observed in the relationship of Europe to the Orient. However, European …
This dissertation proposes an interpretive paradigm to explore the Moorish, Arab, Islamic and Algerian presence in Cuban literature and cultural studies, and it offers four case studies in which to do so. The interpretative paradigm involves a dynamic between two coexisting appr…
In this dissertation, I study the Eastern influences on the music of the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), in particular, the composer’s masterpiece, Gaspard de la nuit (1908). This piano composition consists of three movements, “Ondine,” “Le Gibet,” and “Scarbo,” each …
I examined all cases of United States foreign policies of overt violence, bounded by and including, Vietnam (1964-1969) and Iraq (2003-2007). The objective was to use Orientalism in order to increase our understanding of such policies. What this research showed was quite contrar…
This dissertation employs the method of critical discourse analysis to investigate the relationship among discourse, power, and knowledge in U.S. news coverage of the "honor killing" of Noor Faleh Almaleki. Building upon Western European research on "honor-killing" news coverage…
Representations of the Muslim female are value-laden synonymous with the act of veiling. Veiling has fuelled political, social and academic debates and this study contributes to the ongoing conversation alongside identity formation by examining the image of the Muslim female on-…
This thesis inquires into the factors behind Hollywood's depiction of the Middle East. That depiction is not static, but is modified in response to changes in political events and US government foreign policy. Although the events of 9/11 seemed to justify the traditional negativ…
This dissertation traces representations of Palestine in Jewish-American culture in the first half of the twentieth century. I have developed a portrait of the panoramas of the Orient established in Jewish-American culture. Playing multiple forms of Orientalism and gender constr…
This dissertation examines twentieth century Western scholarly, artistic, and journalistic perspectives on the Middle East. The Middle East has been a constant topic of research in academia throughout the centuries, in which Orientalism is one of the leading enterprises, studyin…
This thesis examines recent academic literature about Libya and media reports on the 2011 Libyan revolution to uncover the ways in which reductionist, stereotypical, and Orientalizing language is prevalent in the construction of Western knowledge about Libya. I borrow post-struc…