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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Middle Eastern studies"”.
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Dispute Negotiations Among the Guajiro of Colombia and Venezuela: Dynamics of Compensation and Status
… contributes to a field dominated by African and Middle-Eastern studies. And the innovative incorporation of status into the negotiation model strikingly amplifies investigative potential, not only for the Guajiro, but for negotiations in any culture dealing with any issues.
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Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco
<p>Morocco’s inclusion in Middle Eastern Studies obscures from view a diverse culture that includes large Black Moroccan communities who reside primarily in Morocco’s desert provinces. “Blackness” and all of its corresponding complexity is not generally associated with the countries and cultures of …
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An architectural investigation of Marinid Wattasid Fes Medina (674-961/1276-1554) in terms of gender, legend and law
… of subjects from within the academic field of Middle Eastern Studies, including Maghribi history and historiography, Islamic law, gender and urban studies. Its predominant concern is architectural, attentive to the spaces architecture bounds and people inhabit.
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The Social and Cultural Alienation of First and Second Generation Immigrant Youths: Interrogating Mainstream Bullying Discourse
Bullying is a multidirectional and a multileveled social problem, which affects every member of a community, thus it requires a diverse and multidisciplinary method to be addressed. Even though immigrant youths are as much prone to this phenomenon, if not more, as their native-born peers, the …
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The Political Communications of Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009: A Critical Discourse Analysis
In 2009 Iran witnessed the Green Movement, a popular uprising that challenged the status quo of the socio-political structures of the Islamic Republic. In this research, I attempt to develop an understanding of the conditions that contributed to the demise of the movement. This study takes a …
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Spirit and Body, Heart and Soul: Exploring Student Narratives through Higher Education in Exile
Refugee higher education, as a subset of the larger education in emergencies field, has been rapidly growing since the 2000s. However, a deeper exploration of student experiences is needed to critically understand the potentially transformative aspects of higher education. Responding to this gap, …
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Roj Means Sun
My thesis project, a 22-minute dramatic film, focuses on the life of ROJIN(12), a young Kurdish-Canadian girl who has just lost her father Agir in a battle in Iraqi Kurdistan. Throughout the film, we follow Rojin as she struggles to cope with his death, eventually finding a new closeness with …
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Candy Crush
Candy Crush is a short experimental film that explores varied experiences of migrants who leave their childhood memories and historical roots behind. It interweaves two narratives; the reminiscences of a migrant (myself) who has left Iran for Canada; and the story of a pregnant woman who has …
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Framing Absence: Visuals of the Wall and the Vanishing Landscapes in Palestine
This dissertation explores peoples relationship to the landscapes of material, abstract, and visual borders in the context of Palestine-Israel. Since 2002, the construction of the Israeli separation Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has significantly transformed the way locals, …
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Juha the Whale
Juha the Whale is a short coming-of-age fiction film that explores the isolation a refugee mother and her young daughter face as they await the status of their claimant hearing in Toronto, Canada. Najah (45) and her daughter Noor (8), spend the days leading up to their hearing in cramped refugee …
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Shiahrazad's Daughters
… developed both in undergraduate and graduate studies. 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 …
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Gender and invested agency: cultural expressions in the United Arab Emirates.
… The UAE is not a well-studied area within Gender Studies scholarship, nor is the Emirati population, an elite, privileged and indigenous minority within their own country. By triangulating discourse analysis, qualitative interviews and participant observation, this research fills a gap in Gender …
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What Isn't There: Imaging Palestine
What Isn’t There is a research project that considers the possibility of creating an image of Palestine by documenting the 418 Palestinian villages that were erased with the establishment of the State of Israel. The work has taken many forms over a twenty-year period including: photography, film, …
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Political and Economic Understandings of Democracy in the Middle East
… the least democratic regions of the world, the Middle East/North Africa. It proposes that the cross-national surveys used to identify this democracy paradox contribute to the apparent misalignment of public opinion and political structure. While in most regions of the world the public’s …
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An Early Modern Islamicate Port: The Politics and Society of al-Zubāra, 1766 – 1842.
… part of the broader regional world spanning the Middle East and South Asia. It is of interest then, not merely to see ports such as al-Zubāra as a forerunner to later national histories or as part of a frontier of the British Empire, but to investigate the regional conditions and organisational …
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"Who Am I?": The Development of a Male Palestinian Political Identity
<p>The Palestinian people have lived under numerous imperial rulers; first, the Ottoman Empire, then later the British. Today they live under the military occupation of the state of Israel as second class citizen millions more living abroad as refugees. Young Palestinian men have become the leaders …
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The Life Experiences of Ten Female Refugees from Iraq and Iran: An Oral History Research Study
<p>This qualitative study about the experiences of 10 religiously persecuted female refugees from Iran (Baha’i) and Iraq (Chaldean) was conducted in both Northern (Bay Area) and Southern (San Diego County) California. The study focused on three periods in their lives: previous experiences in the …
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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
… largely been foreclosed in traditional cultural studies research. Building on embodied/performative critical rhetoric, the vernacular discourses of the Arab revolutionary body examines other forms of knowledge productions that are not merely textual; more specifically, through data gathered in …
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