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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"North African"”.
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
Assumptions about space, argues the feminist geographer Doreen Massey, are such an integral part of intellectual and everyday discourse that we are often not conscious of their existence and significance, and yet, they have profound consequences for how society is organised. However, these …
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Racism without Race: The Racialization of Middle Eastern and North African Students at U.S. Colleges
… This study examined how Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) students understood their racial identities given the United States’ tense history with Islam and the MENA world. Using foundational texts on critical race theory, current scholarship on Arab Americans and foreign-born students, …
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Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian families experiences with special education in the United States
… on the underrepresented group of Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian Americans. Results of this study reinforce the suspicion of lack of understanding of their roles and rights regarding special education and disabilities. Because of the small participant size, findings of this study …
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Socially Racialized and Statistically Invisible: U.S. Census Recognition of The Middle Eastern and North African Diaspora
… statistical categorization of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) individuals within federal statistical collection, particularly focusing on the U.S. Decennial Census’ racial and ethnic classifications as outlined in the OMB’s Statistical Policy Directive no. 15. Historically classified …
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Making sense of the Census: Racial classification and racialization of Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) individuals in the United States (US) are legally classified as White, yet they experience daily racism that contradicts this racial classification. The past decade has seen an increase in MENA communities’ activism to add “MENA” as a federal race-ethnicity …
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Maghrebis in Marseille: North African Immigration and French Social Welfare in the Late Colonial and Postcolonial Eras
… providers in the city of Marseille responded to North African immigration during the period roughly between 1945 and 1975. It traces the origins of the project they launched in late colonial Marseille, initially under the auspices of a specialized welfare network for Muslim North African clients, …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… and interconnectedness in Palestinian and North African literature, exploring the entanglement of environmental degradation, colonial violence, and cultural memory. While ecocriticism has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab literature as a vital …
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Travertine from Egypt's Western Desert: a terrestrial record of North African paleohydrology and paleoclimate during the late Pleistocene
… Sahara" pluvial phases that alternated with North African hyper-aridity during the Pleistocene are well recognized in tropical and Mediterranean marine records. However, comparatively few studies have investigated the terrestrial expression of these pluvials, in part because of the paucity of …
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A Translation and Analysis of Spring's Bride by Mohammed Dib: Creating a Space for Indigenous North African Drama
… intercultural mise en scène between Francophone-African dramatists and the American culture in which those plays were staged.
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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
… 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 with data …
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The (De-)Colonial Dynamics of Im-mobility in 21st Century Representations of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Study of (Counter-)Narratives around (North-)African ‘Harga’ to EU-rope
… examination of 21st-century representations of (North-)African-European unauthorised migration, known as harga in Maghrebi dialects, against the backdrop of the so-called European migrant crisis. While the phenomenon has been extensively explored across different communicative structures in the …
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Various Opinions Which Prevailed Among the Fathers of the North African Church Concerning the Treatment to Be Accorded to the Lapsi, as Shown in the Correspondence of Saint Cyprian
By 200 A.D. Christianity was so established in North Africa that Tertullian in his famous Apology to Scapula, the Proconsul, could boast that the decimation of the Christians of Carthage would result in a frightful decline in the population of that city.
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Social contact, prejudice, within-group variability, and the own-group recognition bias
… of European observers to recognize European and North-African faces. Specifically, I investigated contact patterns, prejudice, interaction anxiety and visual strategies in the context of the OGRB. To this end, I first created and tested scales to measure aspects of social contact, and prejudice …
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Social contact, prejudice, within-group variability, and the own-group recognition bias
… of European observers to recognize European and North-African faces. Specifically, I investigated contact patterns, prejudice, interaction anxiety and visual strategies in the context of the OGRB. To this end, I first created and tested scales to measure aspects of social contact, and prejudice …
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“Emancipation from that Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton and “Barbary Piracy” from 1784 to 1805
… approach to describing piracy and the North African population limited his views of this region, thus reducing the American conflict to the annihilation of animalistic "brutes." Jefferson‟s practical approach to describing piracy and the North African population focused on emancipating …
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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 Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia): Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
… This variety belongs to the group of sedentary North-African dialects and nowadays is spoken by a limited number of native speakers in Israel and France. As with virtually all modern varieties of Judeo-Arabic, and indeed many other Jewish languages, Jewish Gabes faces imminent extinction. This …
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Is the definition of "permanent establishment", as used in the double tax agreements of selected 'oil rich' central and North African countries, sufficient to protect the taxing rights on the natural resources of these countries?
… the world, there is a risk that the developing African countries are being exploited by the developed countries. The key to this exploitation is the fact that Africa possesses untouched natural resources (embedded with significant profits), which the developed countries, specifically profit …
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Carry it with you : trauma and identity in Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire and Noura.
… part of the cohort of rising Middle Eastern and North African playwrights, her plays focus on representing both trauma and identity. While trauma studies has only more recently been applied to performance, Raffo's corpus is apt for analyses from the lenses of represented historical, cultural, and …
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