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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Middle Eastern History"”.
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Shiahrazad's Daughters
… While pursuing my undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, I focused primarily upon Literature and Women’s Studies. During the course of my studies for a Masters in Humanities at Dominican College in San Rafael, I continued to focus on the …
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Before You Go
Before You Go is a 13-minute essay film exploring the relationship between immigration, memory, personal identity, and how it relates to a larger Canadian narrative. Approaching this film using a hybrid process, Before You Go uses home video, old family correspondences, and actors to re-create and …
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“Anglo-Saxons of the East”: Redefining Armenians in Early Twentieth Century America
… information on early Armenian American history, the text also provided a voice to Armenian Americans in an era where the American public knew them only through paternalistic aid campaigns and fundraiser slogans in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide. To analyze The Armenians in …
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The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
… in fourth-century Persia is a harmonized event history woven from a tapestry of vague and conflicting sources that often exhibit later religious, political, and hagiographical agendas. </p><p> </p><p>To demonstrate how Shapur's persecution came to be interpreted as the result of religious …
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… Christians, and others across pre-modern Islamic history. First, I argue that this discourse functions as a prism through which to view the interplay of religion and politics; a key function of both empire and religion in a pre-modern Muslim context was to uphold hierarchical social distinctions. …
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Tracking Technology and Society along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, 1890-1914
… Anatolia in order to understand the social history of technology in the late Ottoman Empire. The railroad had a profound impact on numerous aspects of Ottoman society, including labor migration, urbanization, industrialization, refugee settlement, and the intensification of export …
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The Persian ney: A study of the instrument and its musical style
In view of the fact that the Ney-e Haftband is the only wind tradition in classical Persian music, the lack of attention paid to it in previous scholarly studies is rather surprising. This dissertation is a study of the Persian ney and its music as it emerged in the city of Esfehan during the …
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Contemporary Egyptian music
… branch of the overall Egyptian music domain and Middle Eastern music as a whole. The music presented in this category is composed between 1932 until 1995, when this research was completed. The composers in focus, those who are alive and active today in Egypt, are trained in Egyptian Western-style …
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THE APPROPRIATION OF ISLAMIC HISTORY AND AHL AL-BAYTISM IN OTTOMAN HISTORICAL WRITING, 1300-1650
… deal directly with narratives of early Islamic history. It specifically deals with the representations of the formative events of early Islamic history. Through the lenses of universal histories, biographies of Muhammad, religious treatieses and other narrative sources, this study examines …