Browsing by Subject "Middle Eastern studies"
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A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
Ambidextrous Regimes: Leadership Survival and Fiscal Transparency
(2012)How do political leaders strategically manage fiscal policy formation to enhance their political survival? What are the implications of the fiscal mechanics of survival for theories of redistribution and democratic transition? ... -
Between Shanghai and Mecca: Diaspora and Diplomacy of Chinese Muslims in the Twentieth Century
(2019)While China’s recent Belt and the Road Initiative and its expansion across Eurasia is garnering public and scholarly attention, this dissertation recasts the space of Eurasia as one connected through historic Islamic networks ... -
Building a Mountain of Light: Niẓām al-Dīn Gīlānī and Shīʿī Naturalism Between Safavid Iran and the Deccan
(2019)With the revival of Imāmī or “Twelver” Shīʿa Islam in the Safavid Empire (1501- 1722) of Iran, histories of its clerical elite have emphasized the overt juridical mechanisms that they erected in support of their imperial ... -
Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
(2017)Iraqi academics have had a pivotal role in shaping and building Iraqi society, identity, and national structures, since the country’s independence from British colonial rule. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, ... -
Crafting an Egyptian Evangelicalism: Revolution, Revival, and Reform
(2020)This dissertation research explores the practices and aspirations to national belonging among Evangelical Egyptians, converts to a distinctively Euro-American form of Protestant Christianity through the proselytizing efforts ... -
Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: The Role of North Korea’s Overseas Art Studios in Egyptian Memorial Culture
(2023)The dissertation explores the artistic and cultural histories behind Egyptian national monuments and museums that were built and renovated by North Korean artists and architects. Archival materials from the American University ... -
Figuring a Queer Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Dissent in Istanbul
(2020)This dissertation is a theoretical and art/archival practice-based exploration of aesthetic-affective resistance to neoliberal recuperation of urban space that not only constitutes a physical manifestation of capitalist ... -
Global Sport, Territorial Ambition: How Professional Soccer Remade Turkey
(2020)Based on fieldwork in Bursa and archival research, this dissertation investigates the historical interplay between professional soccer, nationalism, and globalization in Turkey. The dissertation makes the case that the globalized ... -
Migration and Family Planning: A Qualitative Analysis in Jordan
(2018)Political upheaval in Syria makes Jordan a temporary home to over one million Syrian refugees. More than half of these individuals, due to limited resources and challenging financial circumstances, do not have adequate access ... -
Order Beyond Borders: The Azerbaijani Triangle Across Iran, Turkey, and Russia
(2017)Turkey’s neo-Ottomanism, Iran’s Shi’a Crescent, and Russia’s neo-Eurasianism: together, they evince increasing transregionalism across West Asia. As states and societies interact beyond national borders, their interactions ... -
Political and Economic Understandings of Democracy in the Middle East
(2021)This dissertation addresses the paradox of high public support for democracy in one of the least democratic regions of the world, the Middle East/North Africa. It proposes that the cross-national surveys used to identify ... -
Shadow Zones: Contraband and Social Contract in the Borderlands of Tunisia
(2018)Although Tunisia has been celebrated as the unique success story of the Arab Spring, its emergent democracy has failed to resolve the structural inequalities that caused the 2011 revolution, or meaningfully include marginal ... -
"Suffragettes of the Harem": The Evolution of Sympathy and the Afterlives of Sentimentality in American Feminist Orientalism, 1865-1920
(2016)This project examines narrative encounters in space identified as “harem,” produced by authors with biographical ties to the vanguard of the American Suffrage Movement. I regard these feminists’ circulations East, to the ... -
The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Computational Media: Media Arts in the Middle East
(2020)Today, humans must rely on technical operations that exceed their perceptual threshold and control. The increasingly complex and abstract, algorithmically mediated operations of global capital have only deepened the gap ... -
The Politics of Indebtedness: The Dialectic of State Violence and Benevolence in Turkey
(2017)This dissertation examines the interplay between sovereignty and governmentality in the domain of welfare provision in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast through the analytic of debt.The dissertation shows that debt lies at the ... -
The Sky, Upended: An Ethnography of Palestine, the Planetary, and Their Politics
(2022)When we look up toward the sky, what do we see? The answer may seem to be worlds detached from the colonial conflicts on our own, but in this dissertation, I contend that the sky reveals the contemporary struggles ...
