The prevailing scholarship on the Syrian-Lebanese in Brazil argues that the economic success of these immigrants is mainly the product of merit and hard work—the tenet of exceptional social mobility thesis. This dissertation contends that a key missing aspect of the precept is t…
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My thesis is that Ephrem uses Mary's pregnancy in his Hymns on the Nativity both as a model for the ascetical life and as a way of explaining, theologically, what it means to be a Christian ascetic. For Ephrem, Mary is the first to have her body transformed through the union of …
This study employs an institutional analysis and focuses on the concept of role to show that Assad did not emulate Sadat because he was constrained by Syria's self-assumed role of “bastion of Arabism.” According to the institutional perspective, institutions shape state action t…
The objective of this dissertation is to consider the embodied, relational nature of early Christian thought by examining the doctrine of the prayer of the heart. The opening discussion explores salient features of this ancient practice, its theological foundation, and biblical …
During the mass migration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries millions of immigrants arrived in the United States. Unlike earlier migrations, which mainly brought immigrants from northern and eastern Europe, many of these immigrants came from untraditional count…
Middle Eastern immigrants have established communities across Latin America that, although varying in size, seem to have shared a remarkable degree of economic, and, eventually, political success. Today, the descendants of these Middle Eastern immigrants are concentrated in the …
Oncolytic adenoviruses represent an innovative approach to cancer therapy. These vectors are typically evaluated in immunodeficient mice with human xenograft tumors. However, in addition to being immunodeficient, this model is limited because normal and cancerous mouse tissues a…
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to discover the generic and professional health care beliefs, expressions, and practices of Syrian Muslims living in the Midwestern United States and to describe the influence of worldview, cultural context, and social structure, such a…
This dissertation provides an in-depth analysis of the evidence for the cults of Syrian-Phoenician gods in Rome, and contributes to an understanding of their significance as "alternative" religions within the urban culture of the city during the imperial period. The introduction…
This dissertation examines the wedding song repertoire of the Druzes of Jabal al-`Arab in southern Syria. I investigate how Druze identity and values are expressed through these songs, and how the community's identity is both affected by and reinforced through a collective memor…