Looting valuable artifacts in wartime is a practice as old as warfare itself. Historical examples of this are still visible today, from Trajan’s Column in Rome to recently rediscovered art seized by the Nazi Party during World War II. Historically significant sites are often tre…
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This study investigates the attitudes of U.S. students in American universities toward the image of Saudi Arabia covered by American media and the impact of Saudi Arabia framing in their reaction to Saudis. It analyzes quantitative and qualitative responses from University of Ka…
Political psychologists have identified patterns in the use of cognitive categorization for the structuring of the political worldview of foreign policy decision makers. This dissertation uses a case study approach to investigate the political worldview of the Islamic State of I…
The purpose of this paper was to explore the possible reasons for a Roman to have chosen a Nilotic scene for the subject of a wall painting and to analyze the significance of Nilotic scenes through their context within the home. The analysis focused on a fragment of a wall paint…
Late-eighteenth-century Germany cultivated a pervasive interest in Ancient Egypt. A central symbol of this cultural construct was the Goddess Isis, defined by her well known inscription: "I am all that is, that was, and that shall be and no mortal has lifted my veil." On the sur…
The religious identification of Ptolemaic Queens with Greek and Egyptian deities has thus far received rather marginal attention in studies of Hellenistic ruler cults. This dissertation presents an interpretation of the ideological importance and symbolic significance of the que…
This thesis examines the turn to conflict in Syria during 2011 to see if it is revolutionary in nature and if so, why has it not succeeded? This thesis aims to analyze the anatomy of Syria's "revolution" in order to determine the causes behind the initial popular mobilization an…