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AḤMAD FĀRIS AL-SHIDYĀQ IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: AL-JAWĀ’IB NEWSPAPER (1861-1884)

El-Khoury Salem, Youssef G. (9/21/2020)

This study explores the prominent 19th century Arabic newspaper al-Jawāʾib (1861-1884). It attempts to retrace the later career of it founder Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, and re-inscribe him as a journalist and a public ...
Al-Ghazali's Use of the Concepts of Miracle, Habit, and Mercy, to Critique Inductive experimental Science

Mansour, Ali (2023-05-09)

Science bases its premises and results on induction that is believed to form reliable truths of worldly phenomena. The problem of induction, however, postulates that we cannot, at any point, exhaust an experiment ad infinitum ...
Approaching The Qur'an Through The Lens of Muhammad Shahrur: A Critical Analysis

Hallak, Nancy (2022-04-20)

“Read the Qurʾān as if it was revealed last night”, is a statement said and endorsed by the Syrian academic Muḥammad Shaḥrūr (1938-2019). Distinct from the long-established theory that to understand the Qurʾān is to first ...
Archaeobotany in Lebanon, Case Studies Proving the Value of Implementing Archaeobotanical Analysis in Excavations

Soubra, Marya (5/5/2023)

This research aims to prove the importance of archaeobotanical analysis in archaeological contexts. In Lebanon, many archaeological excavations are conducted. Yet, the number of archaeobotanical analyses implemented for ...
Archaeology of the Mtein and Kfar Selouan Road: A GIS and Landscape Analysis

Azar, Nathan (2024-05-09)

Due to increased urbanization and development in the 21st century, archaeological evidence of road networks has grown more difficult to acquire. Landscape archaeology has tools to continue investigating routes and road ...
AŞİRET MEKTEBİ: THE IMPERIAL SCHOOL FOR TRIBES, 1892-1907

Neyzi, Mehmet Ali (7/12/2021)

One of the outstanding characteristics of the 19th century was the creation of national education systems worldwide. The Ottomans declared in the Tanzimat Edict of 1839 that education was one of the duties of the state. ...
Between the Mad and the Bad: Psychiatrists and Patients in Egypt’s State Asylums

Shafei, Yasmin (2024-05-08)

The study of mental illnesses and asylums have emerged as fundamental areas of historical inquiry. Research on disability studies and the histories of mental health are growing fields encouraging a rethinking of the cultural, ...
The Hindu-Muslim problem a study of British policy in India 1918-1939

Seikaly, Samir (1962)
In search of haven and seeking fortune : the economic role of Ottoman Armenian migrants in British-occupied Egypt (1882-1914).

Torosian, Bedros Puzant (2019)

When referring to economic activities in Egypt most historians highlight the role played by other non-Muslim minorities, namely, Greeks and Jews, while passingly mentioning the fact that Armenians were at most neighborhood ...
The Northcliffe Press and Zionism: The Times, The Daily Mail, and the Battle for the Jewish National Home in Palestine, 1917-1922

Powelson, Elijah (9/22/2020)

The historiography of Zionism in the immediate post-Balfour Declaration period has correctly assigned much of the credit for the Chaim Weizmann-led movement’s successful quest for legitimacy in Great Britain to statesman ...
Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period Coins from the Beirut Central District (5th Century B.C. - 5th Century A.D.)

Faraj, Rochana (2022-02-02)

In the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War, thousands of coins were collected from the excavations in the Beirut Central District (BCD). Professor Kevin Butcher (Warwick University, England; previously American University ...
Producing pioneers : the American Junior College for Women and the Beirut College for Women, 1924-1973.

Batruni, Catherine Wadad (2019)

A significant number of female pioneers in Lebanon were graduates of the American Junior College for Women, later known as the Beirut College for Women. This dissertation traces the creation and development of the College ...
Reconfiguring the Abbasid court : the case of al-Amin

Randall, Jeremy Nicholas (2013)

The Abbasid court has been sparsely analyzed. In particular, the study of sexuality and gender within court culture has been limited to readings of adab and poetry. This thesis analyzes how Abbasid sources depicted al-Amīn’s ...
Slave women and free men : gender, sexuality and culture in early Abbasid times

Moukheiber, Karen Raif (2015)

This thesis investigates the masculine conceptual framework defining the sexual and cultural roles of slave women in a selection of Abbasid legal, literary and historical male-authored foundational texts. It argues that ...
Towards an understanding of the date and style of the portal lion of Tell Ta’yinat : a deconstructive approach.

Zaher, Rana Bassam (2019)

In 2011, a magnificent discovery was made during the excavation season of Tell Ta’yinat: a basalt lion sculpture was unearthed laying on its side and perfectly intact. Monumental in size and detailed in an outstandingly ...
Understanding the public sector in Egyptian cinema : a state venture -

Maatouk, Tamara Chahine (2017)

In 1957 the public sector in Egyptian cinema was established, followed shortly by the emergence of public-sector film production in 1960, only to end eleven years later in 1971. Assailed with negativity since its demise, ...

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