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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"North Africa"”.
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Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics in Roman North Africa
… interaction between nomads and sedentarists in North Africa during the period of Roman rule, with concentration on the aspects of the relationship that pertain directly to the extension of Roman political authority over the Maghrib. Following a brief discussion of the place of the subject in …
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Mechanisms and prediction of climate variability in tropical North Africa
… the monsoon regions of the world is the tropical North Africa. The Sahara Desert lies in contrast with the cool South Atlantic. The monsoon systems control the mean circulation of this region. Superimposed on this basic state, large-scale variability dictates the life of the people and their …
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Modernist Orientalisms: Klee, Matisse, and North Africa, c. 1906-1930
<p>The ambivalent relationship between Orientalism and modernism is the central theme of this dissertation. Art historians have primarily considered Orientalism in the visual arts within the framework of the long nineteenth century. Until now, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse's separate exotic travels …
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Business as Mission: The Effective Use Of Tentmaking In North Africa
… specifically BAM and tentmaking, can be used in North Africa to effectively share the gospel in culturally impacting ways. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of BAM by presenting various definitions of BAM and finding a desirable definition for the purpose of this study. After finding a …
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Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa
… 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 examining whether …
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Terrorist Organizations in North Africa: The Evolving Threat to Global Security
… found a new home in the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa where they have established new training camps, and use these areas to launch attacks on Western Europe and the United States. In order to prevent future terrorist attacks, the United States and her allies must recognize the growing threat in …
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The dynamics of the European Union foreign and security policy : challenges from North Africa
… 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 weak and inefficient. …
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The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943.
… British operations throughout the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War. The study analyses the terrain from the operational and tactical perspectives and argues that the landscape features heavily influenced British planning and operations. These should now be considered …
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An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa
… as backward and immobile, when compared to Northern Europe, and as a conflict zone and a barrier, which separates Europe from the threatening Arab world. Thus, these narratives all respond to Iain Chamber’s call for “dissonant” narratives, whose “disturbing” voices are able to create the …
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Disharmony of empire: Race and the making of modern musicology in colonial North Africa
… and the Making of Modern Musicology in Colonial North Africa” focuses on the early to mid-20th-century colonial history of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, with a particular emphasis on Morocco during the French Protectorate period of 1912-1956. I examine the initiatives by both French and North …
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The origin and structure of easterly waves in the lower troposphere of North Africa,
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1971.
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Mediterraneità and modernità : architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa
… during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa from 1911 to 1943. Rather than see the colonies as merely a projection of the metropolitan context, this research reverses this relationship by examining how colonialism was crucial to the formation of modernity. The focus of this …
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Product architectures for solar-powered drip irrigation (SPDI) systems in the Middle East and North Africa
… 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 use efficiency and reduce fossil fuel use for irrigation. Despite these benefits, SPDI adoption is limited by …
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Prediction and measurement of special core analysis petrophysical parameters in the Nubian sandstone of the North Africa
… studied area, the Nubian Sandstone Formation in North Africa. These neural network predictors are particularly useful in this area due to the limited amount of SCAL data that is currently available. Quantitative statistical measures of heterogeneity were also examined on the reservoir samples, …
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(W)raps of consciousness: articulating women's rights through hip hop in the Middle East and North Africa region
… of girls and women in the Middle East and North Africa region through the work of seven female rappers: Shadia Mansour (Palestine), Malikah (Lebanon), Soutlana (Morocco), Soska (Egypt), Myam Mahmoud (Egypt), Amani (Yemen), and Justina (Iran). Representations of girlhood and womanhood are …
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Exploring Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy, and Consumption: Insights From Middle East and North Africa Nations and Oil-Exporting Countries
… Investment: A Study of Selected Middle East and North Africa Countries Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is widely recognized as a key driver of economic growth. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has enormous potential to tap into foreign investment to further accelerate development. …
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Investigating the factors affecting the development of a sustainable national accreditation body for engineering and technology laboratories in North Africa
… in Phase three the external PESTILE factors of North Africa were analysed and linked to the internal factors to construct and propose a sustainable accreditation framework. The analysis of the proposed framework has led to the development of a draft questionnaire to be used by prospective …
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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
… as a case study of revolutions in North Africa 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 …
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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
… However, CRM was designed and implemented by North Americans as a solution for human factor intricacies among North American pilots, and thus, CRM is not culturally calibrated to accommodate pilots from other regions in the world.</p> <p>The analyses of Flight Operational Quality Assurance …
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Searching for common deviations from South Africaﾒs Tax Treaty Policy: The relationship with North Africa, West Asia and Eastern Europe
… have been promulgated over time in South Africa due to the surge in international trade and investment flows which have tax consequences. There is however, no external enforcement of the above Models in the Republic of South Africa (“RSA”) and as a direct result, deviations from these …
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