The Libro del Caballero Zifar is an example of a Spanish Christian author altering a non-Western piece of literature to suit the needs of a Christian audience without the complete elimination of all non-Western elements. Ethnocentrism is evident in the translation practice, in t…
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The dissertation studies the visual construction of outsider and socially marginalized groups in early modern European art, with an emphasis on prints and book illustrations. It shows that a similar iconography and strategy of representation were used for groups of Others as div…
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the modes of encounter between the European Self and the non-western Other in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet. In the encounters, images of both the European White Man and those of the Other are relative, multiple, and constan…
This thesis focuses on the reading of fiction written by contemporary French women authors, namely Julia Kristeva, Marie Darrieussecq and Monique Wittig, establishing the reader as an active and engaged actor in meaning creation. The reader enters into dialogue with the text, th…
The aim of this research was to examine how the EFQM Excellence Model implementation process had been conducted in a number of cases in UK University academic units with a view to developing a guidance framework for implementation of the EFQM Excellence Model in this particular …
This dissertation examines both the literary and philosophical concept of Other in Antonio Machado's Proverbios y cantares. By redefining Machado's pithy creations as distinct fragment poems, I insert them in a continuum of late eighteenth- through early twentieth-century poetic…
This thesis focuses on how some 'Greek Cypriots' and 'Turkish Cypriots' in North London locate themselves as such through the lived experience of each other in a given context and time. It aims to explore and problematize the notions of 'Self and 'Other' as positioning strategie…
Informed by the ethical relation to the Other as articulated by the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Alphonso Lingis, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and James Hatley, the dissertation emerges through a series of provocations put to me in the field by a Bosnian Serb so…
Sarasins and Franks examines the ways in which European Christians and Mediterranean Muslims portrayed one another in purportedly learned works dealing with geography and ethnography, as well as in popular works of fiction and non-fiction. Using Edward Said's concept of the Othe…
The Book and the Veil is an experimental ethnographic study that presents a feminist critique of Orientalist discourse as it relates to Istanbul at the turn of the twentieth century. The Preface reviews relevant anthropological literature in order to construct the theoretical co…
Why is Egypt portrayed as a monster in the book of Ezekiel? Previous scholarship argues that the monstrification of Egypt can be explained either through the memory of the oppressive Egypt and the parting of the sea at the time of the exodus or by the political alliance between …
The Reason of the Other constitutes primarily a normative survey of conceptualizations of alterity in politico-philosophical texts that have definitional precision above all with respect to freedom and faith. The investigation advances a set of symbols of alterity and the narrat…
Since September 11, 2001, Western readers have been turning to bestselling texts written by or about Muslims in their need to learn more about Muslims. These texts promise an insider's view of predominantly Muslim countries and peoples and are informally influencing and educatin…
Dante Alighieri’s references to the Islamic world are analyzed in order to determine how he perceived the Muslim Other through his medieval Christian lens, and how this shaped both his religious conception of salvation, as well as his political dream for a universal monarchy. Ed…
The implementation of quality management systems (QMSs) is a world-wide phenomenon, particularly in organisations in developing countries. which have used different QMSs to improve the quality of their goods and services. Joint Commission International (JCI) is an international …
The decade 1968-78 saw three major developments in Middle East politics these were the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War in 1967, the British withdrawal from East of Suez in 1971 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973 These events stimulated the United States increasingly to involve itself…
This dissertation aims to analyze the geneses of “otherness” in intra-cultural and cross-cultural interactions and relations in late Byzantium and in the early Ottoman period with a special reference to the fourteenth century. The technologies of “otherness” or “otherization” ar…
This study explores the image of self and other, East and West, in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arabic prose narratives, by focusing on the journey to Europe in these texts. It divides this image into two dominant types: utopian and nationalist, which are sometimes transcen…
The present focus of Americans with regard to the outside world is undoubtedly the Arab Islamic world. This dissertation examines the 19th century representations of Orientalism in the work of Bayard Taylor in order to understand the attitudes and images that informed one of Ame…