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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"Syria"”.
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Rebuilding In Post War Syria
… at the extensively damaged city of Raqqa in Syria, following the ongoing civil war of more than 7 years. The thesis furthermore aims to propose a model that can serve as a catalyst towards much-needed rebuilding in this historic city and beyond. Besides this, the thesis makes an effort to …
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Syria: In Need of Vision
… levels of leadership. The worsening situation in Syria since the end of the Cold War begs the questions of whether any recent U.S. President tried to address the issues in the relationship with Syria, and what was the vision the President sought to achieve. This study reviews Presidential rhetoric …
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Trade and Transport in Late Roman Syria
… level of preservation of the Dead Cities of Syria, fundamental questions of economic and subsistence viability remain unanswered. In the 1950s Georges Tchalenko theorized that these sites relied on intensive olive monoculture to mass export olive oil to urban centers. Later excavations …
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The Kurds of Syria: Towards Self-Governance
… Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or AANES, are scarce not only due to the opacity of the entity's history and governance structures, but also the recency and context of its emergence as a significant actor in the Syrian civil war. This paper therefore attempts to contribute …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
Outsiders, such as Lebanese and Syrian Shi‘is often refer to Twelver Shi‘is in the Syrian shrine-town as ‘traditional,’ and even ‘backward.’ They are not the only ones. Both Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah ‘Ali Khamenei have called the bloody flagellation practices, which have only increased in …
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Bloggers and the Blogosphere in Lebanon & Syria: meanings and activities
… sufficiently explored; indeed in Lebanon and Syria they have barely been investigated at all. Through interviews with bloggers, ISPs, Internet café owners and others, as well as informal online participant observation and an online questionnaire, this thesis explores the structural and …
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Archaeomagnetic dating of bronze age pottery from Tell Mozan, Syria
… city-state of Urkesh, located at Tell Mozan, Syria, was the political and religious center of the Hurrians, a unique culture that inhabited the northern Syro-Mesopotamian region during the 3rd millennium BCE. The chronology of Urkesh has been divided into seven primary occupational phases, …
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Syria and Saudi Arabia in post-Ta'if Lebanon
… is an examination into the role and impact of Syrian and Saudi Arabian patronage ties in the Lebanese system. By looking at the states through the actions of their clients we can come to a better understanding of both why and how the goals of Ta'if have yet to be achieved and potentially come …
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An Investigation into Sustainable Forest Policies and Practices in Syria
… and practices in the semi-arid environment of Syria where such land is limited in extent (e.g. 3% forest and 57% rangeland) and yet where its high biodiversity value is of international significance. The thesis employs a variety of methods: a case study approach (Syria); a questionnaire (i.e. …
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Geoarchaeology of the Orontes River Floodplain Surrounding Tell Qarqur, Syria
… within the Orontes River Valley of western Syria. Tell Qarqur, the archaeological site around which this project is focused, has a continuous occupational sequence throughout the Holocene. Annual inundation of the site by seasonal marshlands suggests that the marsh was either smaller or …
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When home becomes world heritage : the case of Aleppo, Syria
… I do this through the case study of Aleppo, Syria. Since the end of the French Mandate, Aleppo's old city has undergone major transformation as a result if three main periods of planning interventions. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, a series of master plans called for the destruction of …
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Memorial inscriptions from Syria-Palestine: A study in genre and theology
… of scholarly work on memorial inscriptions from Syria-Palestine, no detailed and comprehensive analysis of the genre and theology as whole has been undertaken. While the inscriptions have been individually compared and contrasted to the biblical materials, they have not been studied as a group to …
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Making Healthy Minds and Bodies in Syria and Lebanon, 1899 - 1961
<p>Psychiatrists in Syria presented mental health treatment to Syrians as more than just a way to control or cure mental illness, but as a modernizing worldview to combat popular ideas about the origins of mental illness. When the Ibn Sina Mental Hospital was founded near Damascus in 1922, staff …
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Marginal and Virtual Water for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Syria
… semiarid Middle Eastern countries generally, and Syria in particular, face serious water shortage problems and challenges with water sustainability. Climate change, population growth, and economic development play a major role in decreasing available water resources per capita. This, in turn, has …
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Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq
… thesis examines ancient architecture within Syria and Iraq that has been deliberately destroyed by violence. The act of destroying architecture and monuments in both Syria and Iraq, which is often-historical UNESCO protected, will invariably violate various laws, such as the 1954 Hague …
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Imagining Kurdish Identity in Mandatory Syria: Finding a Nation in Exile
… nationalists from Turkey who were exiled in Syria and Lebanon during the period of the French mandate, and especially Jaladet and Kamuran Bedirkhan. Scions of a princely Kurdish family from the Botan region in Eastern Anatolia, the Bedirkhan brothers initiated a Kurdish cultural movement in …
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