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This study investigates the term, and the poetry of, the Rearguard Poets (saqat al-shuʿaraʾ). It demonstrates through the investigation of both literary and non-literary texts of the Abbasid era that socio-political circumstances were major factors in forming the critical thinki…

Although international violent conflicts are commonly mediated by multiple third parties, relatively little scholarship exists on the phenomenon. This dissertation focuses on four major aspects of multiparty mediation that hitherto have gone unaddressed: the coalition-building p…

This dissertation examines the changing nature of the practice of female genital cutting, FGC (also known as female "circumcision" or female genital mutilation, FGM) and its surrounding discourses, in The Gambia, West Africa. It discusses reactions to campaigns aimed at the elim…