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Hamed, Hamed, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

Hamed and his family are from Afghanistan where he worked as a diplomat and interpreter for the U.S. Army after having studied international relations and diplomacy. As the situation with the Taliban worsened it became too dangerous for Hamed and his family to stay in Afghanistan. They began the difficult journey with the help of smugglers, first to Iran, then Turkey, and then to Greece in a dangerous, overfilled boat.

Hamed explains the despair and frustration faced by many refugees. They feel as though very little is actually done for refugees once they’re admitted, and explains they need more assistance. …

Zarrin, Zarrin, Tsos

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My name is Zarrin. I was an English teacher. In Afghanistan I had a big house and a garden. My husband was a rich man; he had lots of money. My children studied in a private school.All the time the Taliban was warning my husband, “Why does your wife go to school and teach children? If your wife goes to school, we’ll throw acid on her face and take your children.” They don’t like education —they don’t like women attending school.Zarrin left a life of comfort and privilege in Afghanistan and misses home greatly. Her husband was a wealthy businessman …

Kecacatan Sebagai Alasan Membubarkan Perkahwinan Melalui Fasakh Menurut Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam Di Malaysia, R. Abdullah, M. Samah, M.N.H. Mat Hussin

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

Kesejahteraan subjektif terpenting dalam kehidupan setiap individu yang berumahtangga kerana ianya membawa kepada banyak hasil yang baik dalam kehidupan. Bagaimanapun, isu-isu kecacatan yang muncul secara tiba-tiba tanpa diduga oleh pasangan suami isteri perlu diterima dengan dada terbuka. Kecacatan boleh berlaku sama ada di pihak suami atau isteri. Kajian ini dilakukan bagi melihat sejauhmana kecacatan yang dibincangkan ahli fiqh klasik menepati kecacatan yang berlaku di dalam masyarakat dan bagaimana cara yang disediakan bagi mengatasi gejala tersebut. Maka dengan ini dapat disimpulkan bahawa kecacatan yang dibincangkan ada yang bersifat khusus dan ada yang bersifat umum iaitu tidak dikhususkan kepada penyakit tertentu malah …

Ilhan & Family, Ilhan, Tsos

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Ilhan, his wife Nura, and their children resided near Kabul, in a region where both the Taliban and ISIS were active. As Shias, Ilhan’s family faced numerous menaces, including threatsfrom ISIS that they would be beheaded if they did not display ISIS flags. Ilhan’s sister Radwa, who is deaf and mute, was forced to marry a regional leader. In addition to being threatened on religious grounds, Ilhan’s family was also threatened by anelder of their town. Out of desperation, Ilhan’s family sold their house appliances, escaped Afghanistan, and arrived at the Oinofyta refugee campin Greece. Ilhan’s family fled with Radwa, …

Kamaria Bakes, Kamaria, Twila Bird, Lindsay Silsby, Yasmine Kataw, Tsos

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Amina is from Aleppo, where she was a math teacher. She is married with four boys. Her family fled to Turkey from Syria after losing their home in the war. Amina and her youngest son then sailed on an inflatable boat to Greece. Using cars, buses, and trains, they traveled from Greece to Macedonia, then on through Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria before finally arriving in Germany. They stayed for two months in Camp Hamburg before being transferred for a short time to Lemberg. Lemberg was followed by another camp for three and a half months and then to Eisenberg …

Shariah Audit In Islamic Financial Institutions: The Effects Of Spirituality And Moderating Role On Judgement And Decision Making / Yazkhiruni Yahya, Yahya Yazkhiruni

Student Works (2010-2019)

Auditing in the Islamic framework or also known as Islamic auditing has a wider scope than the current practice of auditing. Main objective of auditing from the Islamic perspective is to embrace the Maqasid As – Shariah (Objective of Islamic Principles) as well as to uphold the shariah principles in all practices and process. Shariah auditing requires auditors to judge whether the process and outcomes of audit comply with the Islamic principles, which have a far-reaching implication beyond the usual attestation of current practices of auditing that is to give attestation, assurance of financial statement and internal control of the …

Tafsir Sufi: Kajian Analitikal Terhadap Kitab Tafsira Al-Bahr Al-Madid Fi Tafsir Al-Quran Al-Majid Oleh Ibn `Ajibah (1160 -1224 H) / Firdaus Sulaiman, Sulaiman Firdaus

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research relates to the exegesis of the Holy Quran which was written by a leading Sufi personality from Morocco by the name of Syeikh Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Mahdi Ibn Ajibah al-Hasani or better known as Syeikh Ibn „Ajibah. Syeikh Ibn „Ajibah lived in the 12th Hijriyah (18th Massihiyyah) Century and was a renowned expert in the field of the Holy Quran exegesis, interpretation, the Hadith, Jurisprudence and Sufism. Through this research, an attempt has been made to clarify the interpretation methodology which was applied and used by Syeikh Ibn „Ajibah and his views in relation to Sufism in …

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for Summer 2016.

Globalization And Possibilities For Intercultural Awareness: Multimodal Arabic Culture Portfolios At A Catholic University, Sawsan Abbadi

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This case study explores the teaching and learning of Arabic at one Catholic university campus, with a focus upon the complex interactions between language and culture in a postmodern globalized context. Specifically, it examines the use of “multimodal culture portfolios” as a means to engage students both linguistically and culturally in classroom and community discourses. Through their interactions and co-construction of knowledge with other participants, these students are led to think about the multiple communicative contexts that are shaping and being shaped by them. Data collection was conducted through survey questionnaires and students' responses to the assigned culture portfolio. The …

Stretching The Boundaries Of Medical Education: A Case Of Medical College Embracing Humanities And Social Sciences In Medical Education, Kulsoom Ghias, Kausar S. Khan, Rukhsana Ali, Shireen Azfar, Rashida Ahmed

Community Health Sciences

Objective:

Aga Khan University, a private medical college, had a vision of producing physicians who are not only scientifically competent, but also socially sensitive, the latter by exposure of medical students to a broad-based curriculum. The objective of this study was to identify the genesis of broad-based education and its integration into the undergraduate medical education program as the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) course.

Methods:

A qualitative methodology was used for this study. Sources of data included document review and in-depth key informant interviews. Nvivo software was utilized to extract themes.

Results:

The study revealed the process of operationalization …

Living, Again: Population And Paradox In Recent Cinema, Keith Clavin

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

The last several decades have witnessed a drastic increase in ecological writing, but also a substantial lack in regards to the discussion of human population control. This article argues that the deficiency has been reproduced within several recent examples of eco-cinema, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Despite strong conservationist themes and narratives encouraging social revolution, the films encounter similar theoretical difficulties, and enact similar resulting absences, within their representational fields. As a consequence, the environmental topics are filtered through an anthropocentric lens that generates a set of paradoxes regarding human consumption, sacrifice and the visualisation of future sustainable states.

Assessing The Role Of The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Extraterritorial Activities In Attaining Iran’S Foreign Policy Goals, Hamza Demirel

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation aims at analyzing the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) extraterritorial activities in attaining Iran’s foreign policy goals. Based on observations and assessments from internal and external determinants, Iran’s foreign policy goals are defined as follows: regime survival, which is an indispensable goal of Iranian foreign policy, is above everything; state security and survival; projecting power and becoming the dominant power in the region.

The regime has deliberately supported several armed non-state actors to achieve the aforementioned goals, and as seen in the case studies, the IRGC has served as a node in providing a broad …

The Franchising Effect On The Al-Qaeda Enterprise And Related Transnational Terror Groups: Patterns Of Evolution Of Al-Qaeda Affiliates In The 21st Century, Nicholas Benjamin Law

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

The attacks of September 11, 2001 by Al-Qaeda-sponsored militants represented a high- water mark for the terrorist organization in its self-styled journey to become the inspirational Islamic vanguard for disenchanted Muslims across the globe. In the years that followed these attacks, the Al-Qaeda enterprise underwent a constant rate of evolution and mutation, resulting in a phenomenon of parallel and like-minded Islamist groups pledging allegiance to Usama bin Laden and his ideological vision of a global jihad. Instead of strengthening the overall organization, this expansion diluted the command and control of Al-Qaeda senior leaders in their ability to shape the overall …

Islam And Muslims In Macedonia, Ismail Bardhi

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Bahram & Camila, Bahram, Camila, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

Bahram tells the story of the Afghanistan's 1992 government collapse and subsequent civil wars that destroyed the city of Kabul. "There was war in every alley, every house, every area and every village. 60,000 people were killed." Their family emigrated to Pakistan and after living there for some time, some relatives of a friend from their village travelled to Pakistan and required lodging so they stayed with Bahram's family. In some developing and under-developed countries, the custom of arranged marriage to child and infant daughters is practiced. These house guests demanded their one-year-old daughter be given in marriage to a …

Mina And Gulyar, Tsos

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Mina:

Mina was the second polygamous wife to her husband in Afghanistan. After her husband’s death 16 years ago, her husband’s first wife and children took all the husband’s belongings as their own, including the house and land. Forced to find another place to live, Mina and her sons fled to Pakistan, where they lived until returning to Afghanistan to ask for their share of Mina’s husband’s property. In response, both Mina and her children were beaten, resulting in the death of her oldest son. Mina and her younger son, Gulyar, escaped, and as Gulyar hid, Mina buried her older …

Lima And Hanif, Tsos

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In Afghanistan, Lima worked as a teacher, and her husband worked (and continues to work) for the government as an agricultural manager. She has a fourteen-year-old son who is deaf and has related speech problems; he could not be treated for them properly in Afghanistan. Because her uncle was very wealthy, Lima received daily threats that her son would be kidnapped and held for ransom. Her uncle went to Germany with his own children and her son to protect them from the kidnapping threats.

Although Lima’s son was safer in Germany, she still faced threats because of her work as …

How Does Americas Next Top Model Represent Deafness?, Martha Zavala Perez

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

No abstract provided.

Pengetahuan, Sikap Dan Tindakan Mahasiswa Fakultas Agama Islam Universitas Iqra Terhadap Hiv Dan Aids Di Kabupaten Buru, Andi Ummu Salmah, Nurjanna La Adili, Rahma Rahma

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Sangat sedikit kaum muda yang memiliki pengetahuan yang memadai dan benar tentang IMS termasuk HIV dan AIDS. Dilaporkan setiap 14 detik satu orang remaja terinfeksi HIV dan AIDS. Penelitian bertujuan mengetahui perbedaan perilaku terhadap HIV dan AIDS pada mahasiswa Fakultas Agama Islam (program studi Pendidikan Agama Islam dan program studi Komunikasi Penyiaran Islam) Universitas Iqra Buru di Kabupaten Buru. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif dengan rancangan cross sectional study. Populasi adalah seluruh mahasiswa Fakultas Agama Islam Universitas Iqra Buru. Sampel adalah 60 mahasiswa Fakultas Agama Islam. Penarikan sampel menggunakan stratified random sampling dengan besar sampel 41 mahasiswa program studi …

Ramadan & Pregnancy, Omar Rizvi

Celebration of Learning

Fasting during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is one of the five pillars of Islam and is fard (obligatory) for all Muslims physically and mentally capable of doing so. In the Qur’an, it is made abundantly clear that religion and its acts of worship are not meant to pose undue difficulty or hardship (Qur’an 22:78, 5:6, 2:185). My paper explores the Islamic definitions for “unnecessary difficulty” and “physically capable” specifically in regards to pregnant women. At what point does fasting incur significant, if any, damage to the fetus that it should prevent the mother from participating in …

Hooked On The Right: Explaining The Electoral Success Of The Sweden Democrats, Fabian N. Sivnert

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Why do radical right parties achieve electoral success? Although radical right parties are far from a new phenomenon in modern politics, it nonetheless remains difficult to pinpoint the exact reasons behind their electoral success. Therefore, to provide greater insight into the success of radical right parties this study investigates the Sweden Democrats, a radical right party in Sweden, and their recent electoral success. According to the literature on the radical right, there are two distinct hypotheses that emerge to explain radical right parties’ electoral success. One (the “emphasis” hypothesis) argues for continued, and consistent emphasis on the signature ideological issue, …

Persistence In Higher Education: A Qualitative Study Of Student Perceptions, Beliefs, Outlook And Context In Qatar, Batoul Khalifa, Ramzi Nasser, Atmane Ikhlef, Janet S. Walker, Said Amali

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This study attempts to address the challenges of students in higher education in Qatar. The study draws on student perceptions, beliefs, outlook, and context; we approach the study through grounded means by posing leading interview questions with the aim of exploring and probing. The approach is grounded in that no specific theory drives the questions; rather, the responses from the interview often require interpretation through theory to justify the findings. The sample comprised 35 students who were interviewed through probing and questioning techniques. The questions led to converging responses, which were segregated into themes. A large majority of students felt …

Islam And The West: Global Challenges, Concerted Responses, Reda Shehata

Faculty Journal Articles

A bird’s eye view, even with a fleeting glance at Will Durant’s stupendous classic on the “story of civilizations” throughout its (11) volumes (1938) from the dawn of history to modern European history in the late 18th century (the French revolution) would immediately reveal how challenging and formidable is the task of encapsulating successive epochs, eras of civilization through the history of mankind within a such a time frame of some 14-16 weeks or sessions and courses dedicated to reviews, analyses on the Dialogue of civilization, Eat and West encounter.

Analisis Perbandingan Keputusan Dewan Syariah Nasional, Majelis Ulama Indonesia Dan Majlis Penasihat Syariah, Suruhanjaya Sekuriti Malaysia Berkaitan Isu-Isu Pasaran Modal Islam / Zulqarnain, - Zulqarnain

Student Works (2010-2019)

Pasaran modal Islam adalah merupakan alternatif pelaburan bagi menjana modal untuk mempertingkatkan ekonomi masyarakat, korporat serta Negara yang sesuai dengan kehendak syarak. Untuk itu, keputusan DSN MUI dan MPS SC merupakan bahagian daripada inovasi hukum dalam tegahan atau mengharuskan melakukan apa sahaja aktiviti pelaburan. Kajian ini fokus pada perbincangan mengenai isu-isu berbangkit pasaran modal Islam dalam aspek penetapan keputusan yang meliputi dasar-dasar penetapan keputusan dan manhaj (metod) istinbat al-hukm yang digunakan serta faktorfaktor yang memberi kesan dan diambil kira dalam penetapan keputusan. Analisis dilakukan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif dengan metod pengumpulan data melalui kepustakaan dan temu bual serta metod analisa data …

Job Recruitment And Its Relation With Job Satisfaction From Islamic Perspective: An Applied Study In Jordan / Majed Fawzi Mohammad Abughazalah, Mohammad Abughazalah Majed Fawzi

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study strives to investigate the concept of recruitment, its advantages and disadvantages, its procedures and importance. This study also aims to analyze the relation between recruitment and job satisfaction, and its connection with Islamic values and principles in academic environment. Nowadays, many institutions are moving towards creating an integrated system, which covers institutions interaction internally and externally. It includes a new recruitment mechanism which could save time and cost of the institution by considering all possibilities in achieving the recruitment purpose. Thus, data was collected through a questionnaire, which covers all variables - financial reward, academic field, laws and …

Hadith-Hadith Daif Dan Palsu Dalam Nasa’Ih Al-‘Ibad Oleh Nawawi Banten: Pengaruhnya Terhadap Masyarakat Islam Di Sumatera / Arwansyah Kirin, Kirin Arwansyah

Student Works (2010-2019)

The book of “Na‘i al-‘Ibd” by Shaykh Nawaw al Batan is a tasawuf which contained various categories of hadith. Therefore, it should be studied on its legitimacy where it has been made as public referral widely among the community, especially the Ma’had in Indonesia. The set of problems that derived within this scripture are the status of the hadith, mostly have not been takhrj and legally authenticated. Hence, the researchers had to perform the takhrj of these hadith in this scripture beginning from chapter five until chapter ten. They (the researchers) ought to clarify the status and the source of …

Re-Thinking Initiative Of The Egyptian JamaʿA Islamiyya In 1997, Maissa Hussein Niaz

Theses and Dissertations

The rising worldwide danger of Islamist militancy arouses the need for the search of solutions for the containment of this danger at a highest priority. This thesis examines the case of the successful violence-ending experience of the Egyptian Jamaʿa Islamiyya (EJI), being a model for conflict resolution with the political regime and an example of the possible de-radicalization of one of the most militant Islamist groups in the modern history of Egypt. The study focuses on the Renouncing - Violence Initiative that was issued by EJI in 1997 and the subsequent issuing of a “Correction of Conceptions Series” that aimed …

In Search Of Askia Mohammed: The Epic Of Askia Mohammed As Cultural History And Songhay Foundational Myth, Joe Wilson

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

This thesis offers a detailed historical analysis of The Epic of Askia Mohammed, a foundational myth that ranks among the more well-known global tales of cultural heroes and state formation. The sudden regime change that resulted in the collapse of the Songhay Sunni dynasty and the ascent of the Songhay Askia dynasty in 1492-93 is one of the most important events in West African history. This swift rebellion reversed decades of destructive economic and religious policies. As such, the memory of these dynamic and transformative times was captured by the griots, the oral historians of the Sudan. Nouhou Malio, …

Ambivalent Sexism, Religiosity, And Perceptions Of College Majors As Masculine Or Feminine, Emily Boyles

Senior Honors Theses

This study sought to determine if college students view certain majors as masculine or feminine and if gender perceptions influence their choice of major and subsequent vocation. The methodology included analysis of predictive relationship between scores on the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI), the Ambivalence toward Men Inventory (AMI), the Revised Religious Fundamentalism Scale (RRFS), and a scale measuring perceptions of majors as masculine or feminine. A total of 492 college students from a large east coast Christian university participated in this study by completing an online survey. Based on the university’s degree offerings, 24 college majors were selected, and students …

Abq Free Press, May 4, 2016, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.