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Mattar, Karim. "The Middle Eastern novel in English : literary transnationalism after Orientalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dae20213-59d9-4889-9cc2-e64c66668115.

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This thesis focuses on the production, circulation, and reception of contemporary Middle Eastern literatures in Britain and the United States. I'm particularly interested in the novel form, and in assessing how both translated Middle Eastern novels and anglophone novels by migrant writers engage with dominant Anglo-American discourses of politics, gender, and religion in the region. In negotiation with Edward Said's Orientalism, I develop a materialist postcolonial critical model to analyse how such discourses undergird publishing and marketing strategies towards novels by Ibrahim Nasrallah, H

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Naim, Ibrahim Ali 1962. "Imam Musa al-Sadr: An analysis of his life, accomplishments and literary output." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282708.

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Imam Musa al-Sadr (1347 AH, 1928 CE), is an Iranian Shi'i Imam with Lebanese ancestry. He became the leader of the Shi'i community in Lebanon in 1959 after the death of the local leader. He lived in Lebanon for about nineteen years before his sudden disappearance during an official visit to Libya in 1978. His stay in Lebanon marked a major transformation in the political, social, religious, and economic life of the Shi'i community. It also marked a major change in the history of Lebanon and the Lebanese as a whole. His work and accomplishments touched all the Lebanese no matter what religion,

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Khaldi, Boutheina. "Arab women going public Mayy Ziyadah and her literary salon in a comparative context /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3332477.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages, 2008.<br>Title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3537. Adviser: Suzanne P. Stetkevych.

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Pressman, Hannah Simone. "Confessional Texts and Contexts| Studies in Israeli Literary Autobiography." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557024.

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<p> In Jewish Studies in general and Jewish literary studies in particular, the autobiography has taken on renewed significance in the twenty-first century. A recent wave of Hebrew autobiographical writing has reinvigorated long-standing debates about the connections between family drama and national history in the modern state of Israel. This dissertation examines the discourse of selfhood generated by a select group of authors from the 1950s-1990s, the decades immediately preceding the genre's current boom. The "confessional mode of Israeli literary autobiography," as I designate this discou

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Archer, Amy L. "Before Gokalp and After Gokalp: Ziya Gokalp and Literary Turkism, 1876-1923." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1419950705.

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Smith, Benjamin Lenox. "Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13095487.

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My dissertation, Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature is an examination of this cross-cultural literary encounter primarily through fictional prose written in Arabic from the beginning of the 20th century into the 21st century. The texts studied in this dissertation are set in America, providing a unique entry point into questions about how Arab authors choose to represent Arab characters experiencing their American surroundings. While each text is treated as a unique literary production emerging from a contingent historical moment, an attempt is made to high

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Thomas, Paul Brian Ebersole Gary L. "Sizing things up gigantism in ancient Near Eastern religious imaginations /." Diss., UMK access, 2005.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Center for Religious Studies and Dept. of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005.<br>"A dissertation in religious studies and history." Typescript. Advisor: Gary L. Ebersole. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed March 13, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 340-360). Online version of the print edition.

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Shabangu, Mohammad. "In search of the comprador: self-exoticisation in selected texts from the South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017770.

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This thesis is concerned with transnational literature and writers of the Middle Eastern and South Asian diasporas. It argues that the diasporic position of the authors enables their roles as comprador subjects. The thesis maintains that the figure of the comprador is always acted upon by its ontological predisposition, so that diasporic positionality often involves a single subject which straddles and speaks from two or more different subject positions. Comprador authors can be said to be co-opted by Western metropolitan publishing companies who stand to benefit by marketing the apparent marg

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Neufeld, Christine Marie. "Xanthippe's sisters : orality and femininity in the later Middle Ages." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38251.

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This dissertation contributes to medieval feminist scholarship by forging new insights into the relationship between gender theory and developing notions of orality and textuality in late medieval Europe. I examine three conventional satirical depictions of women as deviant speakers in medieval literature---as loquacious gossips, scolding shrews and cursing witches---to reveal how medieval perceptions of oral and textual discursive modes influenced literary representations of women. The dissertation demonstrates that our comprehension of the literary battle between the sexes requires a recogni

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Chung, Ka-yin Gladys, and 鍾嘉賢. "Natural landscapes in the literary writings of the Eastern Jin (A.D. 316-420) and Liu Song (A.D. 420-479)Eras." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30085494.

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Van, der Merwe David Stefanus. "Die Simson-narratief 'n vergelykende analise /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252008-075909/.

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Swanson, Maria Lebedeva. "The Russian Influence On The Literary And Critical Writings Of Mikhail Naimy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/332760.

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My dissertation examines the Russian influence on the critical writing, poetry, prose and philosophy of Mikhail Naimy (1889-1988), the world renowned figure in modern Arabic literature. Together with Jibran Khalil Jibran, Ameen al-Rihani, Ilia Abu Madi, Rachid Ayuub, and several other Arab-American men of letters he founded the Pen Association, a literary league in New York in 1920 that lifted Arabic literature from the quagmire of stagnation, imitation and old classicism. They also promoted the new generation of Arab writers and made it an active force in Arab nationalism. Numerous researcher

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Arami, Sara. "Cartographies : rewriting the body and the nation in Contemporary Middle Eastern American women’s diasporic fiction." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAC004.

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Cette thèse analyse les œuvres de fiction des femmes moyen orientales américaines contemporaines du point de vu de la cartographie littéraire. Les œuvres étudiées sont The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf de Mohja Kahf, Once in a Promised Land et West of Jordan de Laila Halaby, The Inheritance of Exile de Susan Muaddi Darraj, The Night Counter d’Alia Yunis et Crescent de Diana Abu Jaber. Les œuvres de fiction sélectionnées et étudiées dans cette thèse contribuent toutes à la remise en question des discours dominants qui dépeignent la diaspora arabo-américaine et suscitent le scepticisme des lecteur

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Al-Bassam, Sulayman. "Adapting Shakespearean drama for and in the Middle East : process and product." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/21087.

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This dissertation chronicles the development of a series of plays, collectively referred to as The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, from the perspective of their playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam. Together, The Al-Hamlet Summit (2002-2005), Richard III, An Arab Tragedy (2007-2009), and The Speaker's Progress (2011-2012) register the eruptive social, political, and cultural contexts of the Arab world during the first decade of the twenty-first century while negotiating the adaptation of Shakespeare's plays to a form thought-provoking and entertaining to audiences both within and outside the Middle East. T

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Weeks, Stuart. "Early Israelite wisdom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d5c66cc0-13a4-4d35-aa27-0d06819ab907.

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The thesis is an examination of the wisdom literature preserved in the book of Proverbs, and of evidence pertinent to the nature and historical setting of this material. The first section examines the arrangement of sayings in the sentence literature, reviews the comparative Near Eastern material and its significance for the exegesis of Proverbs, and discusses the claims that early wisdom was secular, rejecting them. The second section concentrates upon the setting of the literature, with studies of 'wisdom' and 'wise men' in the Old Testament, the internal evidence for associating Proverbs wi

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Dyssel, Allan. "Reading the creation narrative in Genesis 1-2:4a against its ancient Near Eastern background." Thesis, Link to online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/422.

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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth. "Rhetorical Transformations of Trees in Medieval England: From Material Culture to Literary Representation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130/.

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Literary texts of medieval England feature trees as essential to the individual and communal identity as it intersects with nature, and the compelling qualities and organic processes associated with trees help vernacular writers interrogate the changing nature of this character. The early depiction of trees demonstrates an intimacy with nature that wanes after the tenth-century monastic revival, when the representation of trees as living, physical entities shifts toward their portrayal as allegorical vehicles for the Church's didactic use. With the emergence of new social categories in the lat

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Aljared, Rawya. "Fueling Petroculture: Contemporary Art from the Arabian Gulf." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523025656392709.

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Langdell, Sebastian James. "Religious reform, transnational poetics, and literary tradition in the work of Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2e8eb46-5d08-405d-baa9-24e0400a47d8.

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This study considers Thomas Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a “religious” writer: as an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels – and in environments that are at once London-based, national, and international. The chapters focus, respectively, on the role of reading and moralization in the Series; the language of “vice and virtue” in the Epistle of Cupid; the moral version of C

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Alaybani, Rasmyah. "Words and Images:Women’s Artistic Representations in Novels and Fine Art in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2005-2017." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565009668743079.

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Benson, Derrick. "Josephus' reasons for the Jewish War." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52313.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I will examine and discuss the reasons given for the Jewish War of AD 66 - 70. Reasons put forward by modern scholars specializing in the study of the works of Flavius Josephus are examined and discussed. However, the bulk of my study centres on the reasons that Flavius Josephus supplies for the war as found in his major work Bellum Judaicum. One is lead to the conclusion that he firmly believes that reasons on the human and transcendent planes contributed to the catastrophic events that lead to the destruct

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Liedeman, Gwendolene Caren. "Magic in the ancient Near East with special reference to ancient Israel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52924.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this investigation an anthropological and comparative approach was employed in the study of magic in the ancient Near East. Firstly, a survey was presented with regard to anthropological theories throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This forms the background against which evidence on magic with respect to the cultures of the ancient Near East is investigated. Secondly, examples of magic in the Ancient Near East was discussed, with reference to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hittite Anatolia. Reference was made to

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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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Newman, Jonathan M. "Satire of Counsel, Counsel of Satire: Representing Advisory Relations in Later Medieval Literature." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/16806.

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Satire and counsel recur together in the secular literature of the High and Late Middle Ages. I analyze their collocation in Latin, Old Occitan, and Middle English texts from the twelfth to the fifteenth century in works by Walter Map, Alan of Lille, John of Salisbury, Daniel of Beccles, John Gower, William of Poitiers, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Skelton. As types of discourse, satire and counsel resemble each other in the way they reproduce scenarios of social interaction. Authors combine satire and counsel to reproduce these scenarios according to the protocols of real-life social interaction

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Miquet, Françoise. "Enjeux culturels et identitaires de la traduction d'oeuvres turques en grec moderne." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20696.

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(8850251), Ghaleb Alomaish. "“DOUBLE REFRACTION”: IMAGE PROJECTION AND PERCEPTION IN SAUDI-AMERICAN CONTEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY." Thesis, 2020.

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<p>This dissertation aims to create a scholarly space where a seventy-five-year-old “special relationship” (1945-2020) between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States is examined from an interdisciplinary comparativist perspective. I posit that a comparative study of Saudi and American fiction goes beyond the limitedness of global geopolitics and proves to uncover some new literary, sociocultural, and historical dimensions of this long history, while shedding some light on others. Saudi writers creatively challenge the inherently static and monolithic image of Saudi Arabia, its cultu

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