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This dissertation examines ethnic and racial self-identification among the adult children of Iranian immigrants in Southern California. Drawing on 51 in-depth interviews with 1.5 and second-generation Muslim and non-Muslim Iranians, my data suggest that ethnic identity formation…

The earliest rabbis inherited from antecedent Jewish sects and authors a theme of kinship between Israel and the Angels of heaven. This theme was prominent in the sectarian thought of Qumran (as evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls) and it pervaded pseudepigraphic writing in the ti…

At the time of writing, the expectation for a peace settlement on the Korean peninsula is greater than ever due to ongoing inter-Korean summits as well as the historic encounters between the two leaders of the US and North Korea. Although the second Hanoi DPRK-US summit in Febru…