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Archer, Amanda. "The folk arts of Oaxaca: integrating the pre-Columbian roots of the traditional folk arts of Oaxaca, Mexico into the middle school art curriculum." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2008. http://165.236.235.140/lib/AArcherPartI2008.pdf.

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Thomas, Jenna Caye. "Visions of the East: Influence of the Levant on the Italian Renaissance." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448533555.

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Graves, Margaret Susanna. "Worlds writ small : four studies on miniature architectural forms in the medieval Middle East." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5489.

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While academic discussion of ornament within medieval Islamic art has laboured much over the codification and meaning of certain forms, there has been relatively little research to date on the visual and iconographic function of architecture as ornament in this context. Those few authors that have dealt with this issue have focused overwhelmingly on two-dimensional architectural representations, largely ignoring the considerable body of portable objects from the medieval Middle East that imitate architecture through three-dimensional forms, whether in a mimetically coherent fashion or in a mor

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Lic, Agnieszka. "Christian stucco decoration in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf region, sixth to ninth centuries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:23636a63-9682-4a2a-b27b-49f2f3df59ac.

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Christian archaeology and art of the region under the jurisdiction of the Church of the East in the Late Antique and early Islamic period is an underresearched field of studies, which exists in between more developed disciplines such as Byzantine and Syriac studies as well as Early Christian, Sasanian and Islamic archaeology and art history. However, archaeological excavations of the last century, especially in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf region, now allow research to be conducted on the most important medium of artistic expression of the region - stucco. Considered from the tech

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Hosseinioun, Mishana. "The globalisation of universal human rights and the Middle East." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8f6bdf79-2512-4f32-840a-3565a096ae8d.

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The goal of this study is to generate a more holistic picture of the diffusion and assimilation of universal human rights norms in diverse cultural and political settings such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The overarching question to be investigated in this thesis is the relationship between the evolving international human rights regime and the emerging human rights normative and legal culture in the Middle East. This question will be investigated in detail with reference to regional human rights schemes such as the Arab Charter of Human Rights, as well as local human rights dev

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Ghiabi, Maziyar. "Drugs, addiction and the state in Iran : the art of managing disorder." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c2cbaeb6-502b-4383-b975-2812602f1efa.

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This thesis explores the politics of drugs and addiction in Iran in light of processes of state formation. The case of Iran provides a paradigm of what has come to be known as the 'War on Drugs' in a political and cultural setting that has been characterised, by most of the area studies literature, by other investigations and scholarly questions. Iran, nevertheless, represents an outstanding case for the study of the War on Drugs; it is at the geopolitical crossroads of international drug routes, it has one of the world highest rates of drug 'addiction' - estimated at between 2-3% and 6-7% of

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Badawi, H. "The potential for installations to create new directions for Saudi Arabian art." Thesis, Coventry University, 2011. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/0fcc12b6-5baf-4892-a1d2-f06776a58cc5/1.

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In 2001 when this research commenced, there was little understanding in Saudi Arabia of the opportunities digital art could provide for artists, how it could be integrated with or used instead of painting, and the effects the enlarged vocabulary could have in communicating difficult social issues. As a result, this study aimed at filling a gap in knowledge through reviewing contemporary Saudi art. This, in turn, helped me to understand the position of my practice. The study also aimed at developing a means of expression in which traditional art can be combined with digital media and showing ho

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Miller, Aimee H. "Goddesses of Color: Interfaith Altars." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/773.

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This paper explores the intertwined history of certain goddesses of the Middle East and the Americas. This history informs the original invented contemporary deities that my project centers around. Using recycled materials and collected objects, my project displays two religious altars, one from my heritage and one from my experience living in Brazil. One altar is based on afro-Brazilian sea goddesses, and one is a contemporary imagined interpretation of a Judeo-Christian female figure. The two altars together compose an installation that seeks to unify a pagan practice and two distinct monoth

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Cornet, Catherine. "In Search of an Arab Renaissance : artists, Patrons and Power in Egypt and the Middle East (2001-2013)." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0091.

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Le paradigme de la Nahda, ou Renaissance arabe est un puissant zeitgeist qui revient cycliquement dans la pensée et le monde culturel du Moyen-Orient depuis la fin du 19eme siècle. Cette thèse questionne les raisons du retour du paradigme dans les années 2000 (et en particulier entre 2001 et 2005) en Egypte et dans les Emirats (Doha et Sharjah) en observant les rapports de force entre différentes sphères artistiques et les structures de mécénat. Elle interroge la raison d'être de cette quête pour une Renaissance culturelle, les enjeux liées au mécénat, l'exploitation politique du culturel et e

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Huxley, Margaret. "The signs of the zodiac in the art of the Near and Middle East up to and including the earlier Islamic period." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29029/.

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The scientific importance of the zodiac to the astronomers and astrologers of antiquity can be gauged from Babylonian cuneiform sources and Greek and Latin technical treatises. Less accessible is the history of the signs, and their meanings and allusions in extant works of art, as on these subjects the ancients themselves were ambivalent. This study, by an analysis of the iconographic evidence, seeks to uncover the origins of the twelve images that make up the zodiac cycle and to trace something of their subsequent history in the Graeco-Roman world and the Middle East, up to the earlier Islami

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Montgomerie, Elizabeth Amber. "Images of rural activities on mosaic pavements in Late Antiquity in the Levant." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:06c62da9-7dcf-4b34-96ec-3d5ea425e2cb.

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Images of rural activities become very popular in mosaic floor decoration in the Levant during the Late Antique period. I aim to explore different categories of iconography and discuss the images of people engaged in rural activities, such as pastoralism; hunting, fishing and activities connected with the vintage. I also aim to look at imagery that is often discussed in isolation without relation to other connected iconographic categories. The symbolic meaning of the representations of the zodiac found in synagogues, for example, is often discussed in detail without also looking at the rural c

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Wood, Rachel K. L. "After the Achaemenids : exchange, transmission and transformation in the visual culture of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria c.330-c.100 BC." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0fc15b6c-0436-4d17-81d3-31f69b77313e.

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This thesis examines the art of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria after the Macedonian conquest, from c.330 to c.100 BC, in light of current developments in archaeological theory of cultural interaction. In order to illustrate the character and scale of these interactions, the thesis presents a discussion of iconographic material ranging from architectural ornament and sculpture to minor arts. Chapters II-IV discuss the material from each site, highlighting regional characteristics and differences between media. Chapters V-VII use three cross-sections to examine cultural interaction visible in mater

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Haghani, Fakhri. "The "New Woman" on the Stage: The Making of a Gendered Public Sphere in Interwar Iran and Egypt." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/19.

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During the interwar period in Iran and Egypt, local and regional manifestation of tajadod/al-jidida (modernity) as a “cultural identity crisis” created the nationalist image and practice of zan-e emrouzi-e shahri/al-mar’a al-jidida al-madani (the urban/secular “New Woman”). The dynamics of the process involved performance art, including the covert medium of journalism and the overt world of the performing arts of music, play, and cinema. The image of the “New Woman” as asl/al-asala (cultural authenticity) connected sonnat/al-sunna (tradition) with the global trends of modernism, linking pre-ni

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Kopsacheili, Maria. "Palaces and elite residences in the Hellenistic East, late fourth to early first century BC : formation and purpose." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc2f6cca-dde4-4d98-9981-16cc3deb4c8e.

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This thesis investigates the morphology and the purpose of palaces in major and minor kingdoms of the Hellenistic World. Elements of architecture, spatial organisation and decoration are analysed in the attempt to clarify issues of chronology and in order to identify function. The analysis places the material into its social and ideological context by taking into consideration the role of kingship ideologies in the formation of space used by royal courts. Comparison with residences of the elite demonstrates the reception of palaces not only as architectural models, but also as mechanisms of po

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Drake, Suzanne. "L’art contemporain du Moyen-Orient entre traditions et nouveaux défis." Thesis, Pau, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PAUU1012/document.

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Dans les pays du Moyen Orient, nous sommes face à une réalité complexe, qui est encore peu comprise en Europe. Les médias nous dépeignent souvent une société majoritairement islamique fondamentaliste. Cette image, qui pourrait relever d’une représentation tardive du Moyen Orient par l’Occident est empreinte de problématiques d’ordre économique et sociétal. Une analyse précise permet de mettre au jour des singularités nationales et intranationales. Les développements artistiques profitent de ces sources multiples. Pour inclure les artistes du Moyen Orient dans l’histoire de l’art du monde, et c

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Esra, Kazem. "BEYOND THE STATED FUNCTION: Showcasing, through everyday objects, social obstacles imposed on Qatari female youth." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3141.

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This critical design project showcases obstacles that the Qatari culture and society impose on their female youth, hindering them from becoming independent individuals. It critiques the society and its social pressures. The project stimulates people to think by challenging their assumptions and perceptions, specifically social perception and judgment, family authority, and gender favoritism. This is achieved through hybridized accessories that are embedded with a meta-meaning that arouses curiosity, invites questions, and stimulates thoughts. Through the design of these appealing, high quality

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Heinz, Sanda Sue. "The statuettes and amulets of Thonis-Heracleion." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:db17df52-6f5b-41e5-a650-f6ad268b2c60.

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This study catalogues and analyses 329 statuettes and amulets from Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken city off the coast of Egypt that flourished between the 7th and 2nd centuries BC. This is the first study of votive statuettes and amulets from the Late and Ptolemaic Periods that presents a comprehensive corpus from a single site, complete with detailed catalogue entries and photographs. Although some of the most exceptional pieces were previously published in an exhibition catalogue, the majority are unpublished and it is the first time they have been studied and viewed as a whole. The material inc

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Amanat, Shayda. "Iran and the Arab World Through A Female Lens: Deconstructing Western Phantasms and Terrors." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/428.

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This thesis explores how today’s Sheherazades, in this case women photographers from the Middle East, create alternative representations that constitute new meanings and understandings of life, gender, and politics in Iran and the Arab world.

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Deijl, Aarnoud van der. "Protest or propaganda : war in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in contemporaneous ancient Near Eastern texts /." Leiden : Brill, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41341528z.

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Seeds, Matthew L. "Discourses in Disanthro Studies." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511347460756042.

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Harrison, Tracy Elizabeth. "Visualizing Complexity : A Spatial Analysis of Decorative Geometric Pattern in the Islamic World, 900-1400 AD." PDXScholar, 2005. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2434.

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This study explores how the use of complex decorative geometric patterns in Islamic architecture spatially relates to advances in the fields of science and philosophy in the Islamic world between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. This project examines hypotheses developed by vario~s scholars on the forces that shaped the use of these patterns (known as the geometric mode) in Islamic architecture. The prevailing assumption that advances in mathematics contributed to the use of the geometric mode is used as a starting point for subsequent analysis. For this study, two spatial databases were cr

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"Visual Ethnography in Three Preschools in Kuwait (Middle East)." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15966.

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abstract: To understand the visual culture and art education practices within three ideologically distinct kindergartens, I employed an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing tools from the fields of art, education, anthropology, literary theory, visual studies and critical social theory. Each of the three schools was considered to be the "best" of its kind for the community in which it resided; TBS was the original bilingual school, and the most Westernized. It was set in the heart of a major city. The second school, OBS, operated from an Islamic framework located in an under-developed small t

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Mason, Deanna. ""The perennial dramas of the East": Representations of the Middle East in the Writing and Art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1945.

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This dissertation studies depictions of the Middle East in the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. My discussion focuses on two prominent members of the Brotherhood—Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt—and utilizes an interdisciplinary approach that examines the poetry, prose, unpublished correspondence and journals, sketches, watercolours, and oil paintings that they produced prior to 1856. I argue that Rossetti and Hunt make use of the Middle East as a repository for and reflection of the ambiguities and ambivalences of their own positions as avant-garde artists and authors.

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Van, Dijk Renate Marian. "The motif of a bull in the ancient near East : an iconographic study." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5088.

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The bull was a potent symbol of power, strength, and, to a lesser degree, fertility to the peoples of the ancient Near East from the twelfth century until 330 BCE. This symbolism was manifested in several iconographic motifs. These motifs reveal the bull as a manifestation of divine characteristics and as an expression of the power of man, and particularly the authority of the king. The use of these iconographic motifs was not consistent across the entire area of the ancient Near East; some differed in appearance and use in the different areas of the region, and many changed over time ev

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Pires, Andreia Helena Nascimento. "Female presence in the Middle Eastern and North African art market." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19877.

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The present dissertation aims to show the strong presence of modern and contemporary female artists, and art businesswomen from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as providing possible explanations for the success of women in the art market of this region. It begins with a historical framework of the region’s art, focusing on the influence and work of modern and contemporary female artists. Afterwards, it highlights women’s activities in art patronage in ancient times, followed by the study of art businesswomen at the forefront of the region’s art scene, ending this section with the ana

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Osborne, Bethany Joy. "The Art of Remembering: Iranian Political Prisoners, Resistance and Community." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65710.

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Over the last three decades, many women and men who were political prisoners in the Middle East have come to Canada as immigrants and refugees. In their countries of origin, they resisted oppressive social policies, ideologies, and various forms of state violence. Their journeys of forced migration/exile took them away from their country, families, and friends, but they arrived in Canada with memories of violence, resistance and survival. These former political prisoners did not want the sacrifices that they and their colleagues had made to be forgotten. They needed to find effective ways to c

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Grobler, Estelle Cornelia. "Ikonografiese studie van Ou Nabye-Oosterse ivoor gedurende die Ystertydperk, 1200 v.C. - 538 v. C." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18931.

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Die Bybel is die boek wat die meeste gelees word en tog is dit moeilik om die leefwêreld van daardie era te verstaan. My doel is om ’n nuwe blik te gee op ’n paar Ou-Testamentiese simbole. Die ontdekking van ivoorobjekte in die middel negentiende eeu in Nimrud se paleise het tot groot opwinding gelei, aangesien dit met die literatuur ooreenstem. Die ivoorstukke het ’n “verhaal” kom vertel. Deur die streke se kuns te bestudeer kan ons ’n prentjie vorm van die kuns wat in die Ystertydperk in Mesopotamië en Palestina se paleise en welaf huise voorgekom het. Die ikonografie word ontrafel deur ’n p

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Moineau, Claire. "La construction des artistes femmes du Moyen-Orient dans les expocollections du Centre Pompidou : les cas de "elles@centrepompidou" et "Modernités plurielles de 1905 à 1970"." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21278.

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Polledri, Claudia. "Photographier la ville, penser l'histoire : Beyrouth dans la représentation photographique artistique contemporaine." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12330.

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Cette étude s’organise autour d’une articulation : celle entre un médium (la photographie), une ville (Beyrouth), et les événements qui ont marqué son passé récent. Le thème des rapports entre la photographie et l’histoire, avec la pluralité de sens qui le décrit, vient, en arrière-fond de ces questions, délimiter l’horizon de cette étude ; le lien entre voir et savoir, antiquement aux sources de la connaissance historique (Hartog, Loraux), en représente la ligne de fuite. En premier plan, la relation photographique et historienne à l’événement constitue l’objet de cette recherche dont le prop

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Gordon, Lanning Robbyn Ellen Lorraine. "Inverting the lens: insider photography by the Manaja’a family, Humayma, Jordan." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2012.

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In this thesis, I assert that photographs of Jordanian Bedouin produced by cultural insiders disrupt and challenge pan-Bedouin and romantic photographic constructions of Bedouin made by cultural outsiders. These outsiders, Western ethno-photographers and members of the Jordanian Hashemite monarchy, use photographs featuring visual symbols of Bedouin identity in order to legitimise claims to land, resources, and cultural capital. Data produced from collaborative action research (the creation of photography with a self-identifying Bedouin family from Humayma, Jordan) demonstrates an increas

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PŮBALOVÁ, Ludmila. "Přístupy k smrti a k pohřbívání v různých historických epochách lidstva." Master's thesis, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-49584.

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Dissertation .. The approaches towards death and burial in different historical epochs of mankind dealing with a view of death in intellectual conceptions during the history. People have been engaged in the question of life and deaths for ages. It is one of the oldest, the hardests and the most fundamental questions which are asked. We can think of the death in two levels: a general and a personal. The comprehension of deaths was developing in history. Thesis traces, what affected and how it is possible, that the today`s subject of personal death states taboo, even if masmedia floods us with d

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