The history of the United States is full of contradictions and paradoxes that are confusing to those who have marginalized identities or fall outside of the dominant culture in any way shape or form. The aim of this artwork is to open a dialogue and begin the process of bringing…
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Identity development is associated with positive functioning in youth. For Muslim-American adolescents who have to navigate the heated sociopolitical context of the U.S., positive identity development may be particularly important. However, past research has ignored the dynamic …
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the change in the place of the IMF in American foreign economic policy toward Egypt between 1985 and 1998. It was found that the United States intervened in the IMF-Egyptian negotiations of the 1987 and 1991 agreements, but did not…
This case study described certain characteristics of the American overseas school experience as perceived by Bahraini graduates of Bahrain School. Bahrain School, located on the island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, is a kindergarten through grade twelve school, operated by the…
It is inevitable that works on waqf written in English will employ terms from Anglo-American law to describe that institution. This study will endeavour to provide a proper understanding of these terms in order to clear up longstanding misconceptions of the nature of waqf. Throu…
This qualitative study uses ethnographic methods to investigate the migration experiences of Americans who have chosen to live in Israel. I develop the concept of “emotional Zionism” to describe the varied ways these immigrants develop relationships to people and places in Israe…
Morality, thought, and culture as represented through language have been the focus of research within the past decade. Little research has, however, been directed toward linguistic encoding of morality in children in general, and in children from Arabic communities in particular…
Jordan is one of the countries in the Middle East in which tradition plays a great role in most aspects of its social life. So with the rest of the Middle East countries where Arabic language and Islamic religion prevail, tradition keeps the tempo of doing things in somewhat dif…
One of the two major goals of this study was to revise the ILP-R and to return it to its original four factors that were grounded in Information Processing Theory. The second major goal was to establish the technical, linguistic and measurement equivalence of the Inventory of Le…
This study examined the effects of country and two levels of religious observance on anger experience and expression in American and Israeli Jews. The sample included Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews in the United States and in Israel. Four hundred and six participants were includ…
This study, Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community, examines how Orisha priests' notions of the human body affect their holistic understanding of health and healing as well as how they define well-being. Specifically,…
Multiculturalism Versus "Multi-national-ness " revisits the encounters of American writers with Soviet nationalities policy—Moscow's promise of a class-based solution to racial prejudice, coupled with its promotion of minority languages and cultures. The project revolves around …
This work explains the detrimental effects of mean behavior toward others in school settings: one school in the United States and one school in Indonesia. Several accepted definitions of bullying are presented and social and emotional learning (SEL) is defined. A link between bu…
Over 50% of people experience a traumatic event during their lifetimes (Del, Kevin, Scotti, & Chen, 2006). These traumas may include, rape, a car accident, diagnosis of a chronic illness or military combat (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). The trauma may have no impact on the individu…
In recent years that involved the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Qatar-based satellite TV network Al-Jazeera became both an important source of news and a controversial actor signifying a challenge to U.S. foreign policy. This cross-national study compares journalist…
The instances of American involvement in global educational initiatives have historically been viewed through the center-periphery model--wherein the U.S. is at the center and is the producer of research, knowledge, and structures. In comparison, the foreign students or countrie…
My dissertation, "Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives," examines shifting American perceptions of race, ethnicity, and whiteness through the formula of the intermarriage story. In each chapter, I do a comparative study of black/white inte…