Home to the advent of investor-state dispute settlement in 1864, Egypt today is an exemplar business partner representing the Middle East and North Africa. In 2024, the c [...]

This dissertation investigates the historical experiences of Assyrian immigrants in the United States during and immediately after World War I, a period defined by height [...]

This thesis provides relevant recommendations to policymakers within the US National Capital Region, the international community, and academic researchers for a realistic [...]

This thesis follows the heightened activation of the Turkish temperance movement between 1920 and 1924, during the anti-alcohol ban, which was enacted shortly after the [...]

Climate change is one of the undeniable and inevitable security threats of our time. In practically every part of the world, environmental challenges and gender discrimin [...]

This thesis examines the frame drum as a central instrument in ritual practices across the Middle East, focusing on how it operates within ritual niches—distinct spiritua [...]

The historical sites of Kish and Ur both exhibit the societal, cultural, religious, and political hallmarks of the Early Dynastic Periods. Excavations have uncovered seve [...]

As a reciprocal contract, Islamic marriage (nikāḥ) furnishes rights and obligations for both spouses. Usually split into two portions, the deferred part of the bridal dow [...]

In Islamic law, preponderance (tarjīḥ)—a practical method for mujtahids to resolve legal contradictions (taʿāruḍ) between proofs—has been known in the uṣūl tradition from [...]

This essay traces the development of the Islamic legal discourse on menstruation (ḥayd) in the formative and classical periods of Islamic law (until approximately 1200 ce [...]

My dissertation offers the first social and legal history of the transition from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt (550–800), shifting our attention to actors in the Egyptian co [...]

A compendium of all publicly available bilateral investment treaty texts for the Arab Republic of Egypt.

This dissertation studies the pervasive significance of wonder and its corollaries to Persian literary culture between Iran and India, with a particular focus on the Safa [...]

Two professor-gamers discuss representations of Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East in video games.

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This dissertation focuses on the analysis of archaeological remains from the site of Mendes in the Nile Delta to discuss the transition from the late Old Kingdom to the F [...]

Studies of human remains and artistic representations of the human form have been foundational to Egyptology since its inception; more recently, there has been an increas [...]

Anatolian prehistory of the 5th millennium BCE has long been overshadowed by the developments of its preceding and succeeding time periods, namely the agricultural rev [...]

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The Qurʾān, as a sacred text, poses distinctive challenges for the historian. The talk will begin by addressing briefly some of these challenges, in particular the limits [...]

This paper explores Fadwā Ṭūqān’s and Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s poetry written in the wake of the 1967 June War, the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, and the Second Intifāḍah (upr [...]

Ancient Egyptian ontologies have been commonly approached as related to order and chaos. Associated with the latter are the concepts of existence and non-existence, wh [...]