Contemporary Arab American Theater and Performance arose as a result of the aftermath of the post-9/11 persecution of Arab Americans. The key playwrights, filmmakers and performers (including stand-up comedians) I focus on include Ahmed Ahmed, Yussef El Guindi, Ismail Khalidi, H…
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The events of September 11, 2001 dramatically changed the lives of Arab Americans. Some lost loved ones in the attacks while others, Arab Americans, became targets of discrimination and differential treatment because they had names and faces similar to the hijackers or they shar…
This study explores sexual and ethnic identity development among Arab American lesbians. This population has been ignored in the psychological literature. Seven interviews were conducted and an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to capture the perspectives of …
Critical intercultural communication (CIC) scholarship on hybridity emphasizes the necessity of examining hybrid performances within their cultural, political, and interpersonal contexts. Though telling, it overlooks a significant piece of the puzzle in understanding hybrid live…
This exploratory study investigated the experiences of sexual minority Arabs residing in the United States. This study utilized a mixed method design to investigate the experiences of Arabs with same-sex attractions, their milestone events, and the impact of the familial, cultur…
Through three journalistic portraits of Arab Americans living in New York City today, this thesis adds to the academic work of documenting the post-9/11 Arab-American experience via creative non-fiction storytelling. The three portraits of different generation Arab Americans eac…
This dissertation examines the representation of diasporic identity and consciousness in Arab diasporic narratives from Canada and the United States. With a focus on the genre of fiction, the primary works under consideration are contemporary novels by Arab Canadian and Arab Ame…
This dissertation investigates the spread of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) sound change among Arab American high school students in Dearborn, Michigan. The NCS is a set of vowel changes found in speakers from Chicago, IL, to Buffalo, NY. Using data collected during ethnographi…
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of Arab American parents in a Michigan high school on multicultural education in the Detroit Metropolitan area. Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States with students in 9th, 10 th, 11th, and …
Minority languages existing in contact with a dominant second language have been shown to undergo a process of attrition or loss. Research in this area emphasizes the role of interference of the dominant language in the process of attrition or loss. Little is known about the sit…
This dissertation examines the construction of Arab American women's racialized ethnic subjectivities and the positioning of Arab Americans within the racialized ethnic terrain of the United States. The narratives of 40 Arab American women who resided in the Northeast region of …
This research explored how Arab American couples found the strength and resilience that empowered them to overcome the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the aftereffects that followed. Utilizing a family resiliency model grounded in systems theory and social constructionis…
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes and opinions of Arab Americans toward welfare and to find out if their attitudes and opinions were culturally motivated. Less than 1 percent of Arab Americans are known to use welfare. Available information suggeste…
The Arab-American community lies at the nexus of intersecting lines of political power, and is subject to pervasive discursive misrecognition, that is, the limiting of members' ability to act as persons capable of taking any position in ongoing social and political discourses. E…
The increasing parental participation and involvement in education can be shown in programs such as bilingual education. Thus, the knowledge and attitudes of bilingual parents toward their district's bilingual education programs needed investigation to determine current levels o…
The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of physical activity and perceived competence, and the relationships between them, for male and female Arab-American students in 7th, 8th and 9th grade. From this population, one hundred forty seven subjects successfully comple…
This study of the rhetoric of Arab American autobiography examines “the rhetoric of cultural encounter” in the autobiographies of three post-1948 Arab American writers: Edward Said's Out of Place , Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage, and Fawaz Turki's Exile's Return. The three autho…
Purpose. The aims of this study are to develop and examine the psychometric properties of a 48-item The Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes, & Beliefs Scale (C-KABS), to evaluate the Cancer Screening Action Model (C-SAM), and to generate knowledge regarding the attributes of cancer scre…
This study compared differences in the mother-daughter relationship between fifty 18- to 34-year-old Arab Americans and 50 18- to 34-year-old European American females. The variables of interest in this study were Attitudinal Independence, Functional Independence, Emotional Inde…