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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Arab Spring"”.
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Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City
During the Arab Spring, Arab cities and their iconic public spaces became beacons of revolutionary practices. This dissertation focuses on the aftermath of this event and investigates the urban consequences of the Arab Spring on Tunis. The multi-scaled study traces a regional phenomenon by …
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Human rights law in Tunisia in the post-Arab Spring era
… heart of the series of uprisings known as the Arab Spring, which resulted in the change of the regime. The people of Tunisia demanded political and social changes for a better economy, democracy, human rights, and equality. Since the uprising in 2011, the changes in law, society and politics …
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Religion and the Evolution of Democracy: A Revised Selectorate Model for the Arab Spring
… Africa (MENA). Popularly referred to as the Arab Spring, the region has experienced a wave of revolutions and instability. It can be classified in three broad categories within 2011: Uprisings that have resulted in the overthrow of standing regimes, uprisings that have failed to overthrow …
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Spring as a seasonal political metaphor : the Prague and Arab Spring in presidential rhetoric.
… has historically adopted the common metaphor of "spring as political change" which serves as a metonymic naming of political periods or events characterized by change and vitality. This "spring as political change" metaphor has been influential through history in naming a varied group of political …
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Translation and conflict: Arab-Spring uprisings and their impact on translation from Arabic into English
… account of the main issues of translation from Arabic into English and to highlight the roles that translators and translations can play in terms of elaborating, subverting, or undermining narratives circulated about certain communities and events. To do so, the present dissertation uses …
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The social base of divide-and-rule : left-Islamist opposition alliances in North Africa’s Arab Spring
… collapsed on the national-level. Why do these Arab states, despite their similar culture, demography, and French colonial heritage, have such different histories of left-Islamist alliances? Using a multi-method approach, including over 100 Arabic field interviews and an original dataset, this …
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Authoritarianism, Threat, and Declining Tolerance and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Post-Arab Spring Middle East
Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Middle East has backslid from a promising march toward democracy back into autocratic rule. The effects of these events on intolerance and support for democracy, however, have yet to be investigated. I offer evidence that threat posed by the Arab …
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The Language of Collapsing Power: A Cognitive-Lingusitic Critical Discourse Analysis of the Arab Spring Speeches of Mubarak
… Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, during the Arab Spring Revolution in Egypt. Seven linguistic, paralinguistic, cognitive-linguistic, argumentative, and multimodal features have been investigated and triangulated systematically as markers of power: deixis, presupposition, frames, hidden …
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Western media representation of the Arab Spring revolutions and its impact on staff and students in a Libyan university setting
This thesis investigated how the Arab and western media affected the staff and students of one Libyan university, Sebha University, through their presentation of the major Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan. In particular, the research focused on the reporting by Al-Jazeera and …
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A study of managers' political risk perceptions and political risk assessment procedures within Kuwaiti international firms during the 'Arab Spring'
… unique series of political events known as the Arab Spring. It argues that understanding both risk perception and assessment, and their inter-relationship, is important in understanding how and why international firms respond to political risk. Data for this study was collected through a mixed …
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The role of Facebook and Twitter in generating social and political change during the 'Arab Spring’ uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt
The ‘Arab Spring’ refers to the protests and revolutions that spread across a number of Middle Eastern and North African Muslim countries during late 2010/early 2011. Grounded on the main theoretical framework of the public sphere (along with the complementary theories of technological determinism …
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The Tunisian Revolution as a Catalyst to the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Revolution in North Africa and the Middle East
… and the Middle East that came to be known as the Arab Spring. Chapter 2 discusses the impact of both domestic and international economic structures and conditions that were in place in the decades leading to the Revolution. Chapter 3 analyzes the political institutions and paradigms enforced by …
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The Vernacular Discourse of the "Arab Spring": An Analysis of the Visual, the Embodied, and the Textual Rhetorics of the Karama Revolution
<p><em>The Vernacular Discourse of the "Arab Spring"</em> is a project that bridges the divide between the East and the West by offering new readings to Arab subjectivities. Through an analysis of the "Arab Spring" through the lens of vernacular discourse, it challenges the Euro-Americo-centric …
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Explaining Regime Change: A Directed Acyclic Graph
The ongoing Arab Spring, like the demise of colonial rule in Africa and the civil wars in Latin America before it, has shifted attention yet again to the question of why some regimes fail and others do not. This paper seeks to discover the conditions under which regime change occurs. Following …
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Guns or Roses: A Comparative Case Study on the Influence of the Military and the Labor Unions on Regime-Change
The recent Arab Spring uprisings lent hope to much of the world that the region was finally transitioning away from authoritarian rule. Yet, the vastly differing outcomes have instead raised new questions. Particularly Egypt and Tunisia, which experienced such similar trajectories of social and …
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The dynamics of the European Union foreign and security policy : challenges from North Africa
… witnessing a major series of revolutions in the Arab world including North Africa, which has led to changes in the region but also affected EU's foreign and security policy and put light onto its deficiencies. Even though the EU was present throughout the Arab Spring, it has been portrayed as …
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Al-Jazeera's role in the Syrian uprising: A study of Al-Jazeera's coverage of the Syrian uprising, its impact on Syrian audience perception, and the factors motivating content selection.
This study explores the role of Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel's coverage at the outset of the Syrian uprising, covering March and April 2011. It reviews the channel's practices and their impact on Arabic public opinion, and examines the allegations that Al-Jazeera played a role in shaping the Arab …
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