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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Following the Shia-dominated February 14th uprising in Bahrain, groups of Sunni Muslims counter-mobilized in the streets. In reaction to the uprising and the state’s failed attempts at containing it, they voiced demands ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The Armenian people have been living in Asia Minor for around two millennia, long before the Turkic tribes found their way there. Although being ruled by stronger powers throughout most of their history, they also had their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The Fethullah Gülen movement or rather the Hizmet movement as his supporters prefer to call it, has grown from being a Turkish religious movement located in Turkey to a transnational movement that has been able to spread ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
De store omveltningene som har funnet sted i flere land i Midtøsten i forbindelse med den arabiske våren, har medført at Saudi-Arabia gjerne blir omtalt som ”et unntak”. Jeg ønsker å utfordre denne merkelappen. Mitt argument ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Aleviene er en muslimsk minoritet som utgjør mellom ti og tyve prosent av Tyrkias befolkning. Siden 1980-årene har migrasjon vært den største årsaken til alevi-revitaliseringen og endringen i alevi-identitet som har funnet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Svekkelse i Jemens formelle statsinstitusjoner har bidratt til at et sviktende regime ikke lenger på en tilfredsstillende måte sørger for velferd, utvikling og sikkerhet for landets innbyggere. Når staten selv er blitt så ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Dialog har blitt en stadig mer aktuell tilnærmingsmåte for å skape forståelse eller forebygge konflikt mellom grupper i områder med etniske, kulturelle eller religiøse motsetninger, samt for å skape forsoning mellom parter ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Hvordan oppleves ”problematiske” ekteskap i Tyrkia og hvilke årsaker ligger til grunne? Hvorfor kalles det for eksempel ikke tvangsekteskap, men barneekteskap? Denne oppgaven som baserer seg på intervjuer med kvinner og ...
Politisk religion i endring : Religiøse sionistiske bosettere og separasjonsbarrieren på Vestbredden
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Israel er i ferd med å bygge en separasjonsbarriere på Vestbredden. Offisielt er barrieren ment å være en sikkerhetsforanstaltning som skal beskytte mot terrorangrep. I denne oppgaven argumenterer jeg imidlertid for at den ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
I 2008 rammet finanskrisa for alvor De forente arabiske emirater (FAE), og særlig Dubai. Dubai hadde tatt enorme lån for å bygge opp infrastruktur som skulle hjelpe emiratet i overgangen fra oljeøkonomi til postoljeøkonomi. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This is a study on the main causes of urban youth unemployment in Iran. It argues that, based upon structural and classical explanations of unemployment, urban youth unemployment in Iran is caused by deficiencies in human ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
I denne oppgaven undersøker og diskuterer jeg bakgrunnen for endringene i tyrkisk utenrikspolitikk overfor Midtøsten under Adalet ve Kalkınma-partiet (AKP).
Etter at AKP kom til regjeringsmakt i 2002 er det blitt diskutert ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, Syria and Israel has been in a technical state of war. After the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights in the Six-Day War of 1967 and the following 1973-war, the border ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In the wake of the Egypt's "January 25th Revolution" this thesis explores the background of some leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood as members of the Islamist student movement al-Jamā´a al-`Islāmiyya. The movement ...
Silence as the Strategy of Alevis: A study based on the Alevi Opening Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The local politics of Global Jihad: A study on the evolution of militant Islamism in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilwe. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Can Jihadists become pragmatics? In Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilwe, located in Southern Lebanon, the Jihadi-Salafi militia Usbat al-Ansar has a long history of catering to the needs of the local refugee population. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In contemporary Egypt, at a first glance one is inclined to believe that Islamist and secularist constitute binary oppositions, and will therefore be unable to find common ground, in particular in the question of Sharia ...
From context of flight to characteristics of exile : Iraqi refugees and Syrian security Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
As the main refugee-recipient country for the post-2003 Iraqi exodus, Syria is currently believed to host more than one million Iraqi refugees in a volatile region. This warrants interest for anyone concerned with the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
I 2003 fikk USA og deres allierte til et regimeskifte i Irak som førte til diktatoren Saddam Husseins fall og slutt på et politisk regime som var basert på folkemord, etnisk rensing og systematisk undertrykking av det ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The topic of this theis is the group al-Haraka al-Masriyya min ’ajl al-Taghyir (The egyptian movement for change), also called Kifaya (Enough). The momvement was founded in 2004, and their main demands were an end to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The Mojahedin-a Khalq is a radical opposition movement that calls for the destruction of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Between 1980 and 2001 they mustered violent attacks from their
military bases in Iraq against the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Le sujet de mon mémoire qui se fonde sur une approche qu’on peut qualifier « d’anthropologie historique » prend la notion d’identité culturelle collective et la question des minorités dans une société musulmane multiethnique ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne oppgaven tar sikte å belyse røttene til den islamske legitimeringen for al-Qa´idas globale jihad mot USA og Vesten. Mer spesifikt forsøker den å vise i hvilken grad den egyptiske islamisten Sayyid Qutb har influert ...
Crossing the Red Line : student riots in post-revolutionary Iran Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
In post-revolutionary Iran, student riots erupted in the streets of Tehran and other urban centers, the larger in July, 1999, which lasted for six days and resulted in many arrests, abductions, and some casualties. They ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Under the radical leadership of Mu ammar al-Qadhafi, Libya has constantly been the focus of international attention. This is attributable to its reputation as a rogue state, a transgressor of international codes of conduct, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Det finnes kanskje ikke noe land som er så myteoppspunnet som Saudi-Arabia, til tross for at kongedømmet har hatt et stort antall vestlige boende i landet siden 1970-tallet, og er et av de mest moderne arabiske landene. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
De siste årene har vannknapphet fått økende oppmerksomhet fra akademikere, journalister og politikere. Det hersker stor uenighet mellom disse om hvorvidt vannknapphet fører til mellomstatlig krig eller samarbeid. Pessimistene ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Min hovedpåstand er at man i dag bruker æresdrapsbegrepet som en slags sekkebetegnelse på mange typer drap som ikke bunner i ære. Menn dreper kvinner ut fra mange årsaker og man må se på de utløsende årsakene for å forstå ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Ved valget i de palestinske områdene i 2006 fikk Hamas flest stemmer og et overveldende flertall av representanter gjennom å stille med valglisten ”Change and Reform”. Dette var en endring av strategi som kan sees på som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Brorparten av tyrkiske medier eies i dag av store tyrkiske konglomerater med interesser i en rekke ulike bransjer. Eierskapskonsentrasjon i mediebransjen skjøt for alvor fart etter 1980, da Turgut Özals regjeringer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Utdanning har vært en hoveddel av Omans hersker Sultan Qaboos` moderniseringsprosjekter.De siste tiårene har antallet studenter økt ved både offentlige og private utdanningsinstitusjoner.Denne nye mer, utdannede generasjonen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
De senere år etter 11. september 2001 har Rand Coorporation utarbeidet en rekke rapporter om muslimer, spesielt rapporten fra mars 2007. Rapporten ga anbefalinger til den amerikanske administrasjonen om å støtte « den ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Etter terroraksjonen i USA 11. september 2001 ble skylden for terrorangrepet lagt på al-Qaida nettverket. Lederen for dette nettverket befant seg i Afghanistan, og Taliban nektet å utlevere ham til USA. Dette førte til at ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Det har i løpet av det siste tiåret kommet uoffisielle israelske forslag om utveksling av befolket land mellom Israel og PLO. Denne oppgaven viser at slik som forholdene er nå kommer ikke en fredsavtale til å inneholde ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In the Norwegian discourse regarding Palestine and Israel the main focus is often on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the search for a solution. Speaking of a two state-solution and a lasting peace, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
A discourse that portrays the Palestinian refugee as a suffering but struggling stateless person who has return to Palestine as his or her ultimate goal is dominating both in academic research and in Palestinian politics ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The goal of this thesis is to examine the presence of economic integration in the energy sectors of Iraq and Iran after the invasion in 2003. I argue that the absence of Saddam in combination with an Iraqi energy sector ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Denne masteroppgaven gir et generelt innblikk i IDFs doktriner, militære konsepter og kontekstuelle betingelser. Hensikten har vært å kartlegge presisjonsnivået på retningslinjer og ordrer som blir gitt, i hvilken form ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
For hundre år siden var Negev-ørkenen, sør i dagens Israel, bebodd av titusener av beduiner. De kontrollerte hvert sitt territorium og løste disputter med egne lover. I dag bor de i Siyag, et avgrenset geografisk område ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Da Irak i 1990 invaderte Kuwait ble det for alvor klart for de små, rike sjeikdømmene ved Persiabukta omringet av stormakter som Saudi Arabia, Irak og Iran hvor utsatt de var. For Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani i Qatar var det ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Since 2012 Syria has arguably taken over the position previously held by Iraq as the focal point for the broader jihadist movement. The conflict has witnessed the rise of a new alQaʿida affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Oppgaven tar for seg graden av tilgang syriske flyktnigner har til det offentlige skolesystemet i Libanon. I tillegg undersøker den kvaliteteten på utdanningen syriske flyktninger har tilgang på innenfor det offentlige ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Turkey's response to the Syrian refugee crisis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Since its formation in 2014, al-Hashd al-Sha’bi has established itself as an effective fighting force in Iraq and has played a significant role in fighting IS. It rapidly became a powerful and significant force almost ...
Fighting for Citizenship in Kuwait Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis discusses the causes and characteristics of mobilisation in the country s stateless community. There are more than 106 000 stateless Arabs, locally known as Bidoon, living in Kuwait today. In the wake of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Helt siden den islamske revolusjonen i Iran i 1979 har relasjonen mellom Saudi-Arabia og Iran vært preget av spenning. Begge landene ønsker, ved å spre sine respektive tolkninger av islam, å være den førende makten i den ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The Arab uprisings not only brought new political opportunities to the Arab world; it also brought a violent civil war to Syria, causing a flow of refugees into its neighbouring countries. The Jordanian Salafi organisation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The topic of this thesis is the interplay between political context and Palestinian constitutional development from the inception of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1993 until the aftermath of the collapse of the National ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Denne oppgaven er basert på et feltarbeid sommeren 2005 blant unge frilansere av askenasisk opprinnelse som jobber innen kunst og kultur i Tel Aviv i Israel. Temaet er etnisk bakgrunn i Tel Aviv. Jeg søker svar på i hvilken ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Much research has been devoted to analysing the Muslim Brotherhood s (MB) ideology, and many have speculated on what kind of policy the MB would lead if it came to power. In this study I take a look at the Freedom and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Kvinner fikk politiske rettigheter i forbindelse med de politiske reformene ved årtusenskiftet i Bahrain. I denne prosessen opprettet Kong Hamad Supreme Council for Women (SCW), et statsfeministisk organ som skulle ledes ...
Waithood in Jordan; The Role of Education Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis investigates the role of education in reproducing and/or reducing Waithood for youth in Jordan. In Jordan, and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in general, the situation for the majority of youth is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis seeks to examine whether Hizbullah’s intervention in the Syrian Civil War has affected the party’s image as a Lebanese national movement, a narrative it has strived to maintain ever since the 1990s, when it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Siden 2004 har Environment Society of Oman jobbet for å øke bevisstheten rundt miljøproblemer og klimaendringer i Oman. I begynnelsen var arbeidet basert på frivillighet, men i dag teller organisasjonen 17 ansatte. I denne ...
A Snapshot of Al-Qaida's Attempt to Reassert its Supremacy of the Global Jihadist Movement Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In 2014, the government of Jordan introduced an economic incentive program urging mosques and universities to implement solar panel systems on their buildings. This project is known as the Solar Panels Project. The initiative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Over the years, research has demonstrated that conflict spreads to the host country as a consequence of massive influx of refugees. Most studies gathered empirical evidence from African countries and focused on cases where ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Saudi Arabia er et av de verste landene i verden når det gjelder brudd på religionsfriheten. I FN forstås religionsfrihet som retten til å ha, endre og frasi seg sin religion eller tro, og frihet til å uttrykke denne alene ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis will tackle the organization of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and asks if this organization has been able to further the political and social goals of the Palestinians in Lebanon. The fieldwork is based upon ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
After the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011, Syrian refugees fled to the neighboring countries, including Egypt. In and around Cairo, these newly arrived Syrians have created several support organizations offering ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Islamisme er en del av en global religiøs oppblomstring og det blir sett av mange som en reaksjon mot (vestlig) moderniseringen av muslimske stater fra Indonesia til Tyrkia. Det er to teoretiske retninger i denne sammenheng. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Den arabiske våren kom til Egypt 25. januar 2011, og brakte med seg et tilnærmet ukjent fenomen for den egyptiske offentlighet, nemlig gatekunsten. Den visuelle kommunikasjonen som fantes i det offentlige rom var før dette ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Israel forsøker å presentere Jerusalem som en forent by, hvis udelelige egenskap er basert på Jerusalems rolle som jødenes religiøse, historiske og politiske hovedstad. Den politiske dimensjonen av "å bygge landet Israel" ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
When Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged in May 2013 his party‘s military involvement in the Syrian conflict, it marked a watershed moment for an organization that previously had promoted itself as a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Monarkiene på Den arabiske halvøy (Bahrain, Forente arabiske emirater, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar og Saudi Arabia) har i løpet av de siste førti årene opplevd stor innvandring av utenlandske arbeidere. Det har vært en ønsket ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis has assessed the national political context and factors shaping Saudi Arabia’s renewable energy policies through a multi-level perspective analysis. Key barriers and drivers to the implementation of renewable ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis investigates the post-genocide situation of Yezidi women who were captured by ISIS in 2014 to address the process of reintegration and challenges of their current life in Kurdistan Region and Germany. More ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
There is a growing number of Syrian children that are being born in Lebanon and a growing number of Syrian children that fled Syria at a young age and therefore have few memories of the country. A vast number of these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Nuptial Economics Within Cairo’s Shifting Class Politics And the Social Consequences Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Syrian Civil War is one of the most complicated and complex conflicts in Middle East, with countless of internal and external actors, blurring the borderlines between international and domestic politics. This study ...
Discontented, Disillusioned, Divided: The Egyptians Dreaming of a Better Yesterday Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Nostalgia has had a subtle, yet constant presence on social media in Egypt over the last decade. As a phenomenon it is neither particularly prominent, nor that recent. However, examining its expressions more closely has ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Ramadan TV series – musalsalāt – are the most popular television shows in Arab world. Using theories adapted to the narrative conventions in musalsalāt, this thesis looks into how the narration, namely the plot and stylistic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The phenomenon labelled the “MENA gender paradox” by the World Bank is a common dominator for the MENA region countries. Women are not entering paid employment in the number one would expect considering the high rate of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
THE THIRD WAY BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND SECULAR FEMINISM Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
For decades, many Muslim women have been confronted with a choice between the modern principles of liberation and freedom and religious traditions. Is being a Muslim incompatible with pursuing feminism? Or how to balance ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, large numbers of Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon, which is currently hosting the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. Almost half of the Syrian refugees in ...
The Dynamics of Religiosity: A Case Study on Religiosity Amongst Raqqa’s Refugees in Sanliurfa. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Coiled: Israel's Invasion of Lebanon in 1978 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Through participating in student elections since 2012, the Secular Club at the American University of Beirut (AUB) have challenged the long-standing hegemony of sectarian political parties in Lebanon. How has this come ...
From Zero-Conflict Policy to Military Involvement in Syria: Changes in Turkey’s Foreign Policy Strategy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
As the Arab Spring unfolded in the early months of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa, the international Salafi-Jihadi movement would rise in importance on the local, regional and international agenda. Gazan Jihadists, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The mainstream Arabic pop music is in constant development where new trends replace the old, making room for music from countries like Morocco to participate in this genre together with music from Egypt, the Levant and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis will look into the social movement of LGBT people in Lebanon and discuss various perspectives of its mobilization. The thesis will offer an understanding on how activists in Lebanon form and view their strategies ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
An empirical study on Fatamiyyon Corps# rise and involvement in the Syrian Civil war
Women’s Human Rights in Qatar Comparative. Analysis on Qatari Domestic Law and International Standards of Women’s Human Rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The main focus of this thesis is on Women’s Human Rights in Qatar. It aims to examine the comparative analysis between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
How does the AKP use sport as a political tool to influence the society in Turkey? What are the main actors of this policy and how is the sport sphere in the AKP's New Turkey? This thesis aims to answer these questions.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Denne masteroppgaven er en litteraturstudie som tar for seg sunniarabernes opprør i Irak i tidsperioden mellom 2003 og 2014. Oppgaven søker å finne ut av årsakene til at sunniaraberne gjorde opprør etter at Irak ble invadert ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Saudi-Arabia er et land som definerer seg selv som 100 prosent muslimsk. Dette impliserer at man ikke kan være saudier hvis man ikke tilhører islam. Hvordan de offisielle lærebøkene definerer islam sier derfor noe om hvilke ...
Separated by a River: Investigating the Structures of the 2019-2020 Cairene Art World Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis investigates the post-2011 dynamics in Cairo’s contemporary art world, asking: in which ways do the dominant forces in the Cairene art world function as of 2019 and 2020? The study circles on two communities – ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Republic of Turkey has a secular democratic regime. It is also home to several different cultural values, race, ethnicity. In Turkish political setting, these differences are used as identity markers by certain politicians ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)