This dissertation describes an attempt to understand the complex process of how Indonesian Muslims in New York City negotiate their cultural identities. This dissertation gravitates around the concept of transnationalism, which perceives that contemporary immigrants form and mai…
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The convergence of contemporary international affairs with religion calls for a new lens for interaction. This convergence, combined with the global topography of militant ideologies in the name of Islam, the impact of the War on Terror, and the rift in Muslim-West relations has…
How is transnational social space affecting the way contemporary Muslim women perceive their identities and engage in activism? Despite a rapid expansion of research on Muslim women and the development of multiple research projects analyzing traditional, economic, neocolonial, a…
The dissertation is a community-based ethnographic study of Pakistani immigrants in Houston. In the dissertation, I use an interdisciplinary approach to examine how belonging to a transnational Muslim ummah, ancestral affiliation with Pakistan and contemporary life situations as…
Copyright and the infrastructure for literary creativity in Kenya are suboptimal. I evaluated this through three related hypotheses. First, the public, private and non-profit sectors do not efficiently support training of authors, writing, publishing, distribution and access to …
This thesis undertakes a feminist deconstructive reading of the discourses of state-sponsored Islamization and the feminist response to it in an attempt to answer the question: What does it "mean" to be a "woman" and a "citizen" in Pakistan at this juncture? Going beyond the ont…
The modern Chaldeans are customarily defined, by themselves and by others, as an Aramaic-speaking Catholic minority from the ancient land of Mesopotamia. Articulations of Chaldeanness in the United States--whether written or oral; popular or academic; public or private--exhibit …