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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Middle East and North Africa"”.
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Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa
… thesis analyses the impact of Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa. In the name of Islam, Islamist groups have embarked upon a path of violence and terrorism. The primary objective of the thesis is to critically analyse the ideas, approaches and implications of Islamism. Firstly, by …
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Product architectures for solar-powered drip irrigation (SPDI) systems in the Middle East and North Africa
… production must be intensified using existing land and resources. Sustainable agriculture intensification is particularly important in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the most water-stressed region in the world. Solar-powered drip irrigation (SPDI) has the potential to increase water …
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(W)raps of consciousness: articulating women's rights through hip hop in the Middle East and North Africa region
… participation in various parts of the world and how this participation interacts with and impacts the lives of other women. In this dissertation, I use the lenses of postcolonial aesthetics (McCarthy and Dimitriadi, 2000; Dhillon, 2014), U.S. third world feminist studies (Sandoval, 1991; …
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Exploring Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy, and Consumption: Insights From Middle East and North Africa Nations and Oil-Exporting Countries
… foreign direct investment, economic development, and private consumption are not solely influenced by individual policies or economic indicators in isolation. Instead, they are significantly affected by the wider political and economic context of a region. Where the broader narrative is that the …
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National Culture: Understanding the Impact of Cross-culture on Airline Pilots' Safety Performance in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) Region
<p>The continuous expansion of Middle Eastern airlines has created a pilot shortage. Since the local pilot population in the Middle East is relatively small, airlines have been relying on foreign pilots to satisfy their operational requirements. Consequently, pilots with diverse cultural …
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Factors associated with patient and health system delay in diagnosis and commencement of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): systematic review
… review on factors associated with patient and health system delay in diagnosing and commencing treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The dissertation is composed of three main parts: namely parts A, B and C. Part A is the research protocol, which give …
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A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói
… literature on the long historical, social and cultural processes that characterized Jewish-Arab coexistence in the Muslim Arab societies of the Middle East and North Africa. For this purpose I survey: A. a large body of primary sources that have for the most part not been available in …
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After Bin Laden: An Alternative Futures Analysis for Al-Qaida, Uncertainty in the Arab World, and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
… concerning Al-Qaida's affiliates in the Middle East and North Africa, since the death of Usama Bin Laden have played a critical role in the already volatile and unstable environment in the Arab region. Islamic extremism and terrorist threats pose a serious challenge to emerging Arab …
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"What Is My Environment, I Will Change": Exploring the Possibilities of Transnational Feminism through Kennesaw State University's Middle Eastern and North African Students
<p>Much research has been done on feminism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as well as on the international student experience. This paper combines the two areas of research to study the international student’s role in promoting transnational feminism. Combining select works of fiction …
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Outcomes of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Arab World
… All Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1979 and it is currently the 2nd most ratified human rights convention after the Convention on the Rights of the Child. However critics argue that many of the states that ratified CEDAW continue to discriminate against women and girls. The region of the …
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George W. Bush, September 11th and the rise of the Freedom Agenda in US-Middle East relations: a Constructivist Institutionalist approach
This thesis generates a greater understanding of the George W. Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa. It is motivated by two central research questions: How and why was the Freedom Agenda developed? And, how was the Freedom Agenda constituted? To address these …
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Development of a Computational Tool for Simplifying Engineering Tradeoff Analysis for the Design of Cost-Optimized, Time-Variant, Electrodialysis Reversal Desalination Systems
… models of electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and time-variant processes. In place of explicit computation, this paper proposes a simplifying assumptions to simulate desalination power and production rate of a TEDR process without explicit computation, enabling rapid year-long simulation and …
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International portfolio diversification with special reference to emerging markets
… explain the expected returns in emerging markets and determines the risk of investing in these markets using cross section and time series data. An international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM) with time varying moments developed by Harvey (1991) is adopted. The conditional asset-pricing …
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The Current Status and Future Trajectory of Violent Jihadism
… jihadism remains a threat to the United States and its interests abroad. Al Qaeda will not be satisfied with the removal of American troops from the Middle East or the cessation of American engagement with Middle Eastern governments. Instead, al Qaeda and its ideological followers will continue …
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The fall of Hosni Mubarak: Skocpol's structural approach
The recent Arab Spring movement in the Middle East and North Africa has been heralded as a transition to democracy for a region plagued by authoritarian regimes and their durable leaders. This paper seeks to understand why Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former long-time president, was forced from office …
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Private equity and venture capital in emerging markets : a case study of Egypt and the MENA region
Private equity and venture capital investments in emerging markets grew significantly over the past five years (2003-2008), both in absolute and relative terms. In this study, we examine the industry's role in emerging markets, in terms of key actors, business processes, and impact on portfolio …
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Developing an Intergroup Anxiety toward Muslims Scale
Understanding intergroup relations and the anxiety that can result has become increasingly relevant to interactions between Muslim and non-Muslim individuals due to current tensions between Islamic groups and many Western nations (e.g., acts of terrorism in Madrid and London, the U.S. War on …
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We are not the periphery: barbarian economies and Northern Europe in the exchange patterns of Western Eurasia, 1800 BC - AD 900
… of long-term exchange patterns involving northern Europe and neighboring regions of western Eurasia reveals that the world of the North has, typically, played an important role both as producer and consumer. Especially in the Carolingian period (AD 700 - 900), the system as a whole can be …
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Rimesse e sviluppo locale nel sistema migratorio del Golfo Persico
The thesis concerns, from an economic and institutional point of view, the migration process in connection with development issues, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region. Adopting a south-south perspective of migration flows, which is focusing on migration from the Maghreb and Mashreq …
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