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This dissertation seeks to put in sociological perspective the recent introduction and usefulness of public opinion polling in Palestine. In tracing attempts, over several decades, by the Palestinians to make themselves heard and understood and to gain international recognition,…

The Family Body is a verse novel reimagining the Osiris myth cycle, a central narrative in ancient Egyptian religion, as a modern family drama that explores the emergent nature of sibling relatedness in the face of moral ambiguity and crises of identity. The work reduces narrati…

Standard academic practices of reading, writing, and knowledge production embedded in colonial and exclusionary practices prohibit self-reference as a mode to analyze and understand literature. As diversity in the English discipline continues to grow, universities need to rethin…

The education system of the western world is a tool of hegemony used to command replication of an ontology rooted in oppression. Teachers interested in combating oppression must work toward decolonizing their praxis, a nuanced task accomplished with the help of critical inquiry …

Sociologists have paid little attention to the structural causes of American participation in wars. Consequently, the discipline offers few theoretical perspectives on American war making. Sociological theories that do exist fall under two headings: state-centric and Marxist the…

The purpose of this research was to (a) study the Muslim students, as a minority group--a group that no longer is foreign to this society or academia, in spite of the prevalent prejudice and discrimination found in the media and elsewhere; (b) investigate their perceptions of pr…