Iranian constitutionalism has been in existence since the early twentieth century, and has taken many forms. Despite these decades of experience, Iranian constitutional development has yet to reach maturity, as reflected by the domestic turmoil of its various form of governance.…
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This dissertation examines how the English-language prestige press and media represented the Lebanese Shi`a during a critical period in the group's history. Focused attention on three of the most prominent newspapers in the English-language media (the New York Times, the Times (…
The present work explores my practice as a photojournalist researching anthropological issues in the Muslim world. I use the Hawzas, the Muslim Shi'a seminaries, as my case study to invite a visually informed approach to the human sciences, and promote a practical usage of aesth…
Shigella spp. are the etiologic agents of dysentery, a severe diarrheal syndrome characterized by acute inflammation in the colon. The inflammatory response, which includes recruitment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), damages the colonic mucosa and exacerbates the infectio…
The advent of Shi'ism as the earliest sectarian manifestation of the Islamic religion remains on the more perplexing issues for modern historians of early Islam; this study attempts to address this problem through a fresh approach to the most prominent legend concerning the emer…
The 1991 uprisings in Iraq's southern governorates following Operation: Desert Storm - and the decade of trauma that followed them - were the "Big Bang" that begat the modern era of Iraqi sectarianism and the Sunni-Shi'a divide. The memory of the 1991 intifada created new Iraqi …
Rosewater is an Arab-Canadian novella composed of two short stories- “ Hab al Ruman” and “Sharbat”. “Hab al Ruman” is set in 1983 in Mount Lebanon and presents the mental journey of a single Muslim mother as she struggles to preside over her adolescent daughter’s future. “Sharba…
This dissertation challenges the prevailing rentier state interpretation of political life in the countries of the Arab Gulf, a theoretical framework little changed for more than a quarter century. It does so by evaluating for the first time the fundamental claim of rentier theo…
This dissertation examines the effects of religious narratives on the political and social behavior of Shi'a Muslims in the contemporary United States. It finds that American Shi'as utilize the narratives of Shi'ism instrumentally, in support of their already formed political an…
Infertility is a condition that afflicts a significant portion of the world's population. Islamic scholars accept the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) when used within the bounds of a marriage, but only in Shi`i Iran do some scholars permit the use of third-party ga…
The 5th /11th century represents a new era in the history of Imami theology. It witnessed the shift from a traditionalist approach to answering the questions of the day to a rationalist method. This evolution was perhaps influenced by the scholarly environment of Baghdad at the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to use a Foucauldian lens to examine the nature and scope of the many challenges the British faced in southwest Arabia in the wake of the retreating Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. The subsequent power vacuum which ensued mea…