This dissertation examines the relationship between media and political power in the Middle East between state and non-state actors between 1952-2011. For the past seventy years in the Middle East, state actors (i.e. a nation-state’s government or leader) have used radio, televi…
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This autobiography serves as a testimony to labor events that lead to the January 25, 2011, that was shortly aborted thereafter. It throws the shadow over the reasons why Egyptians revolted in the first place and moves into a day-to-day walkthrough how it played out until the fa…
For historians and scholars alike, the 20th century is widely recognized as the bloodiest one-hundred-year period in human history. Despite previous human rights conventions before the 20th century, the African country of Namibia fell victim to systematic violence from 1904-1908…
The dissertation addresses the troubled relationship between authoritarianism and public goods. Political scientists have mixed expectations about the incentives of dictators to provide public goods that foster economic development. I argue that authoritarianism is not the main …
Unarmed insurrectionary (UI) campaigns demanding irregular regime change seem destined to failure, but such social movements surprisingly succeed more often than not. Explanations for campaign outcome tend to focus on movement skill or variation in domestic-level structural fact…
Several recent studies indicate that revolutions of non-violent civil resistance lead to more democratic and peaceful political transitions than either violent revolutions or elite-led political transitions. However, this general trend has not been disaggregated to explain the m…
It is estimated that the number of Iranians in the United States has reached 1.5 to 2 million since mass departures following the 1979 revolution, making it the largest population of Iranians in one place outside of Iran itself, with the majority having settled in California. Th…
This thesis examines the role of civil society in Egypt and argues that it was central to the success of the 2011 revolution that ended in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. I will discuss the development of civil society under Mubarak and demonstrate its strength. In unders…
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the relationship between religion and revolution within the context of Egyptian Islamic culture. The discussion will begin with an investigation into the evolution of revolution as a concept, from its original scientific meaning within th…
Although scholars have devoted substantial attention to Armenian revolutionary movements, the treatment of the subject of relations between various Armenian organizations and the Young Turks and their leaders, both individually or through various institutions, have received tang…
The aspirations of this assessment are to convince the reader that by identifying critical features of the Ben Ali regime and its observable transformations over 23 years, I will support the conclusion that the system that Ben Ali created was ultimately destined to fail. I hope …
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…
In 2011 the wave of revolutionary upheavals in the Arab world and the `Occupy' protests in the industrialized West together resurrected important questions about the nature and morality of revolution that had faded from view following the benign, non-violent "liberal revolutions…
This dissertation argues for a more inclusive definition of citizenship by suggesting that it is best understood as the ability and desire to work on public problems with others. In the Westphalian nation-state, citizenship is often understood to be a collection of legal and pol…
In the wake of the Egyptian revolution of 1952, Egypt's Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz turned to stories of corruption and alienation, initiatory underworlds of the revolution's political detractors drawn from an unlikely aesthetic combination of Hollywood Westerns, local mytholo…
As a performance artist and arts activist I present my research project to the audience in performative writing, a postmodern research style that advocates the integration of the artist/researcher identity. In the summer of 2010, I left for Egypt to teach a performance and insta…
This dissertation, “The Orient in Europe: Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature,” responds to Edward Said's concept of a monolithic Christian Orientalism that justified European economic and political control of the Middle East. The project considers the role of E…
This study examines the construction of a new political order in post-revolutionary Iran through the prism of its revolutionary armed forces. It specifically explores the place of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in this process, and focuses on its role in establish…
In this thesis I aim to examine how the strategic use of nonviolent activism contributed to political transformation in Egypt during the overthrow of the Mubarak regime. I discuss how historically accumulated "models, memories, and social understandings" affected the operation o…