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Eroticism in the Works of Contemporary Egyptian and Levantine Female Novelists
Literary and narrative discourses hold an inherent correspondence between themselves and the social, economic, national, and political issues that govern the atmosphere in which they emerge, including those concerning the ... -
Hebrew and Persian Revival Movements in the 19th Century
This paper is a comparative historical study of the revival movements of Hebrew and modern Persian in the 19th century through the lens of two prominent individuals, Eliezer Ben Yehuda and Manekji Limji Hataria. Both men ... -
Hellenes and Arabs at Home and Abroad: Greek Orthodox Christians from Aleppo in Athens
In this thesis, I show how communities living together in relative equality in Aleppo, Syria, and fleeing the same conflict, experienced very different outcomes depending on which religious community they belonged to. ... -
Iranian Audacity & Israeli Opacity: Challenges to the Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
(2013-07-23)A Nuclear Weapons Free Zone is a concept pre-dating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), 1968. Five such zones exist today covering more than 50% of the earth's surface. However, one region of ... -
ISIS Success in Iraq: A Movement 40 Years in the Making
In June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took the world by surprise when they began forcibly taking control of large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. Since then, policy makers, intelligence agencies, ... -
Law and Society in Ottoman Iraq: The Case of the Buried Treasure (1856)
As in all legal disputes, there are many versions of this story. One party claims the other broke a contract by failing to pay off a debt. The other argues the contract was never legally binding and he was coerced into ... -
Religious-Nationalism in Israel/Palestine
This dissertation describes and analyzes the reasons for the changing nature of the religious-Zionist community in Israel. It offers an innovative sociological framework to discuss recent social, ideological and religious ... -
Screening Late Ottoman Memory in Payitaht Abdülhamid
In viewing historical rehabilitations as objects that have the capacity to transform people, this thesis seeks to explain the popular consumption of one such rehabilitation as a function of its resonance with an existential ... -
The Damascus Spring: Assessing its Fragility and Stagnation
This paper compares the Damascus Spring and Syrian Revolution through the political process model of social movement theory. In doing so this paper identifies the key differences between the two mobilizations which have ... -
The Imperial Frontier: Tribal Dynamics and Oil in Qajar Persia, 1901-1910
University of Washington Abstract The Imperial Frontier: Tribal Dynamics and Oil in Qajar Persia, 1901-1910 Melinda Cohoon Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Arbella Bet-Shlimon Department of History ... -
The Political and Economic Effect of the American Response to 9/11 on Israel
The impact of 9/11 was significant to global politics because of the United States’ response to the attack and subsequent wars in the Middle East. As a state with a “special relationship” with the United States, Israel was ... -
The Sounds of Silence: Iraq's Missing Voices From the Sanctions Period
Using personal interviews and works of art, I bring into focus the suffering of Iraq’s people who lived through the sanctions period (1990-2003) under the regime of Saddam Hussein. In particular, I examine the effects of ... -
The UAE and the Green Façade: Renewable Energy Challenges in a Hyper-Consuming Society
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a recently formed state has undergone a transition, the speed of which has brought the country to the forefront of promoting a global sustainability discourse. Through the introduction of ... -
Upgrading the Women’s Movement in Iran: Through Cultural Activism, Creative Resistance, and Adaptability
The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the effects of the 2009 post-election state crackdown on the Iranian Women’s Movement. Varying narratives of how the crackdown affected women’s activism necessitate ...