This study analyzes the experiences of liberalization in Egypt and Jordan as well as democratization in Yemen. The initiation and the reverse of these processes are explained by focusing on the role of the ruling elites in the three countries and the choices they made at differe…
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Many societies possess traditions that are so strongly honored that they take precedence over modern ideology. This is the case in Yemen. By middle school, for example, ideas about gender and gender roles are so strongly ingrained, that boys and girls holdfast to those time-hono…
Women's oppression and gender inequality have become predominant concerns of our times with the emergence of concepts such as social justice and human rights. Even after years of intervention, we still find ourselves in the midst of the same struggle. In under developed and deve…
The purpose of this study was to examine the managers' transformational leadership practices in Yemeni governmental and financial audit organizations. In addition, the study examined the manager-employee relationship as reflected by the comparison of managers and employees' perc…
This dissertation examines the impacts and functioning of a community led public works intervention in Yemen, the Labor Intensive Public Works Program (LIWP). LIWP was designed using the "twin-track" approach of combining short-term relief with long-term investments. The program…
This dissertation analyzes the religious beliefs and practices of the Shadhiliya/'Alawiya Sufi order of Sana'a, Yemen. As a system of symbols and practices religion plays formative roles in the experience of its adherents. The thesis of this essay is that religion functions to m…
While the legacy of the Arab Spring is still not definitely determined, one thing that can be said with near certainty is that it has further destabilized the Middle East, including Yemen. Many U.S. administration officials have declared that the Yemeni-based terrorist organizat…
This thesis examines political conflict event data in Yemen from 2000–2010 to illustrate shifts in political contention and its effects on securitization in Yemen. It employs a geographic framework that interprets the influences of historical and geopolitical events on current p…
High school grade point average and college entrance test scores are two admission criteria that are currently used by most colleges in Yemen to select their prospective students. Given their widespread use, it is important to investigate their predictive validity to ensure the …
Arab Spring, or the series of uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa in early 2011, has raised hopes that the region is finally catching up with democracy. The fall of four long-established authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, respectively, sh…
As reported by the 2009 World Bank’s Higher Education Learning and Innovation Project, the overall usage of information technology in Yemen is lagging behind other countries in the region, which has a direct impact on the quality of education offered to Yemeni students. The purp…
This study examines styles of sociability and bodily practices in Zabi d, a town in the Republic of Yemen. This work addresses how women's personal and familial identities are constituted through bodily practices of adornment and modesty. Their families' wealth, generosity, and …
An important trading center for at least three distinct periods in its long history, and entrepot of the highly visible medieval trade between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Aden owes much to its strategic geographical location. An exploration of the elements that defin…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent of the diversity among Yemeni pre-service science teachers in their approach to study and their perception of the classroom learning environment. The study sampled 393 (196 male and 197 female) science majors and 208 (101 ma…
How does the study of ancient woman, the Queen of Sheba, inform womanist pedagogy? What role does the study of history play in the development of womanist research? This work studies the legends surrounding the Queen of Sheba. It examines evidence that suggests that the Land of …
This dissertation examines the specific problem of North and South Yemen's 1990 unification as a case study of power-sharing in a regionally divided country. At the same time it investigates the more general problem of hegemony in all power-sharing arrangements. Power-sharing th…
This study evaluated the high school biology education in Yemen based on the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Developing Biological Literacy (1993). The study used inductive analysis, a type of qualitative research, in which triangulation of six data sources was used …