'Journalism After September 11' examines how the traumatic attacks of that day continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the USA and Britain.
The main hypothesis of this paper argues that dispensationalism, specifically dispensational pre-millennialism, has significantly impacted a segment of evangelical Christian attitudes toward Muslims in the post-9/11 era, primarily in a negative fashion. The central concept of th…
This project examines the impact that 9/11 has had on the everyday lives of Muslim Americans. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with South Asian and Arab American Muslim men and women living in the Chicago area, the data reveals Muslim Americans have been subjected to the …
Americans experienced terror through media and were forced to construct a new social reality on 9/11/01. American television journalists framed the story first as breaking news: a plane crash at the World Trade Center. TV journalists later assumed an ethnocentric perspective as …
The main goal of this study is to provide an insight into how highly educated Egyptian women construct their perception of themselves as Muslims and Arabs living in the US after September 11, 2001, through redefining their gender roles. It is a qualitative study of Egyptian wome…
Since September 11th , 2001 there has been an increase in attention to and awareness of the experiences of Muslims. Alongside this growing interest, the post-9/11 era has witnessed a dramatic backlash against Muslims with a sharp increase in prejudice and discrimination (Council…
This study explores interactions between race, gender and citizenship focusing on how race and gender ideologies shape "common sense" understandings and public memories of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Cent…
While South Asians are among the fastest growing immigrant groups in the country, there is a dearth of empirically based research on their identity and intergroup relations. This dissertation examines racial, ethnic, and religious identity, intergroup attitudes and relations, an…
This dissertation, a hybrid of critical theory and poetry, investigates the implementation of metapoetics through a lyric sequence in order to frame the opposition between ethics and aesthetics, especially for art created in the wake of September 11 and the American occupations …
In my dissertation I focus on the experiences of recent immigrants in Canada and Australia. The first two chapters study the role of social networks in the labor market assimilation of new immigrants. The third chapter examines whether the impressions of recent immigrants in Aus…
The concept of coercive diplomacy has been used as a framework for analyzing various cases of confrontation between two or more states. Coercive diplomacy is the use of threats by a state to force an adversary to concede to certain demands. Formulated by Alexander L. George, thi…
This study explores some major challenges involved in teaching about controversial groups in U.S. public schools, discussing as an example education about Muslims since September 11, 2001 (9/11), and the need for students to develop accurate and balanced perceptions of others in…
This dissertation is the culmination of four years of exploratory ethnographic research investigating the impact of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks on Arab Muslims, intergroup relationships and community life in working class neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ, that came under…
The events of September 11, 2001 were tragic and life changing for the people of America. This date became a line of demarcation in public thinking as time became divided into pre-9/11 and post-9/11 days. This divide was used to advantage by an administration seemingly intent to…
This dissertation traces the recent emergence of the Arab American Theatre movement, focusing on plays by women dramatists. It presents an overview of contemporary theatre and performances by Arab American women, and explores their focus on political theatre and identity politic…
In response to the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, several songwriters wrote lyrics depicting the emotions of countless Americans. These lyrics while often evoking emotions of hope and unification also evoked a thirst for revenge and an increased misunders…
This study investigated the construction of Saudi Arabia's social reality before and after September 11, 2001 by television news organizations US mainstream television news organizations of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox and in relation to U.S. government officials' news framing of inte…
The findings show that deviance does play some role in the news coverage of Arab-Americans, but the role is not as strong as theory would predict. Contrary to the prediction by the theories of influence on mass media content by Shoemaker and Reese, the study found that an increa…