This study examines the nature of the relationship between a superpower and a small state, using as a case study that of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the USA. The period covered is the lifetime of the YAR from 26 September 1962 when the Republic was declared, to 22 May 1990…
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Yemen's rugged highlands are a diverse, socio-politically complex landscape with a long history of settled agricultural life characterized by towering stone houses, monumental dams, and dramatic terraced field systems. I trace the significance of foods in ancient southwest Arabi…
The purpose of this research is to understand the dynamic processes of modern national unification cases in Vietnam (1976), Yemen (1990) and Germany (1990) in a qualitative manner within the framework of Amitai Etizoni's political integration theory. There has been little use of…
Using the Wadi Sana watershed of Hadramawt Governate, Yemen as a case study, this dissertation examines how environmental and social factors structured the origins of irrigation in prehistoric Southwest Arabia. It applies three methods, archaeological survey, geomatics, and ethn…
This thesis examines Egypt’s foreign policy in the mid-1960s through the lens of her five-year intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. It traces the fall of Egyptian fortunes from the aftermath of the Syrian secession to the eve of the Six Day War, arguing that complications arisi…
The work of the hospital at Jibla can be divided into four main phases the formation of the hospital, the years of unrestricted ministry, years of resistance, and finally the close of the hospital. The formation of the hospital was an exciting time for Southern Baptists. The arr…
This dissertation presents three essays based on the theme of ethnicity and institutions, utilizing insights and data collected from Lebanon and Yemen, two Arab societies within which ethnicity (sect, tribe, and region) is salient socially and politically, but which use differen…
Due to the increased organizational dependence on information systems and technology, most of today's organizations and governments have plans to implement information technology and e-government in all of their job processing and communication tools. The Republic of Yemen is a …
Understanding the dynamics of regimes that combine the external trappings of democracy with the substance of authoritarian rule is a central puzzle facing comparative political scientists. Thus far, much of the literature addressing hybrid regimes has focused on the importance o…
This dissertation examines how ideology structures the behavior of political actors. While studies of confessional Political parties often begin with the assumption that religious beliefs structure behavior by establishing a set of constraints that limit options available to pol…
The Mahri language of Southeast Yemen is one of the few remaining indigenous languages of the Arabian Peninsula. The geographic isolation of the Mahri language has ensured its survival to the present time; this isolation has also caused it to be overlooked in Arab-Islamic formul…
Port cities in the Arabian Peninsula along the Bombay/London trade route formed the link between Europe and the colonies on the Indian Ocean. Port cities were the places where the colonial and religious interactions were the most visible. They were the locus of colonial settlers…
Humayni poetry emerged out of the strophic poetry that developed in Muslim Spain, was brought to Yemen by Sufis (Muslim mystics) and was adopted by Yemeni aristocrats at the turn of the seventeenth century. Although it used a low linguistic register to varying degrees, from the …
The port city of al-Mukha dealt in a wide variety of commodities, but it gained its fame in the west as "Mocha," from the legacy of its most famous trade item, coffee. This dissertation explores architecture, urban form, and community life in this major Yemeni Red Sea port city,…
The continuous tension between poetic creativity, social norms, and literary traditions that set the rules for textual production and interpretation has shaped the Yemeni history of poetic production. Acting as a "unitary language," literary traditions tend to unify poetic pract…
Several developing countries introduced family planning programs to reduce their population growth rates. The rapid spread of birth control programs in the developing countries was at times accompanied by measures which violated human rights. In response to the ethical violation…
This dissertation deals with practices of social categorization through the deployment of discourses of difference and morality in southern Yemen. It analyzes the ways in which this deployment is experienced as social domination and class inequalities in marginal social spaces. …
This dissertation, based primarily on 15 months of anthropological fieldwork on Soqotra, the largest and most populated island of the Republic of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, examines the material and social effects of the making of a national Protected Area and a global World H…
This dissertation is concerned with the political and religious histories of the first Arab-Muslim communities to settle on the Swahili Coast and their subsequent role in the Islamicization of East Africa. It examines the historical connections between South Arabian migration an…