While certain minority groups have gained acceptance in contemporary American society, others continue to experience high levels of bias. Currently, Muslims are one of the most “othered” social groups in American society. In this research, I examine social bias toward Muslims, w…
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This dissertation examines the character and consequences of the encounter between Soviet colonial authorities and southern Central Asian society during the period 1927–1941, one expressed fundamentally through the language of gender relations and family life. I focus on Uzbekis…
For millennia, ancient civilizations of the Near East pondered the important psychological questions posed by death. The funerary portraits produced by the desert kingdom of Palmyra from the first century B.C. to the destruction of the city by the Romans in A.D. 273 present some…
Europe is currently embroiled in a debate over the challenges Muslim immigration poses to national identity and cultural cohesion. As nations seek the best way to accommodate the values of the mainstream while respecting the rights and beliefs of Muslim minorities, they must mak…
There is a long, and largely neglected, history of Western women's involvement in Persia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present time. British and American women travelled to the country variously as representatives of Christianity eager to spread the good word of the Bib…
The Politics of the Veil is an attempt to undermine the negative stereotype, widely held in the West, that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women's oppression in Islam. My main argument is that the popular Western notion that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women's oppression is a …
The population of 2nd generation Canadian-Muslim women who choose to veil, or wear the hijab, is steadily increasing. Rather than inquire why these women choose to do so, this study explores how Muslim youth use the veil as a fashion accessory. Guided by research questions that …
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…
The veil is a historically constructed site, a fixed sign used in Euro-America to conveniently and clearly dress the borders between east and west. Recent disciplines like visual and cultural studies, Third World feminism, and postcolonialism have challenged this assumption posi…
In this paper I discuss the motivations and inspirations that contextualize my artistic practice during the course of my 2-year MFA degree, including my thesis exhibition, Wandering Isle . Within this paper I investigate the notion of multiple identities as it applies to Iranian…
This study explored the veil as norm among modern middle and upper-middle-class women, a class that historically had rejected the veil until recently. The study sought to identify the loci of the forces pushing the wearing of the veil. The study is based on the integration of hi…
This goal of this research is to bring African-American Muslim women into the discourse on veiling. My primary research question is why does this population participate in the practice? Drawing on symbolic interaction theory and black feminist theory, I suggest four possible exp…