Essays about: "Shiite"
Found 5 essays containing the word Shiite.
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1. Beyond the dichotomies of a coercion and voluntary recruitment, Afghan unaccompanied minors unveil their recruitment process in Iran
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för mellanösternstudierAbstract : By shedding light on accounts from unaccompanied Afghan asylum-seeking minors in Sweden who were child soldiers in Syria, this thesis explores and examines their narratives and their involvement in the civil war in Syria. The research aims to create a deeper understanding of how these children themselves made sense of their participation in the war by answering the following questions: How were the children approached by the recruiters? What kind of reasons for joining the war are put forward by the recruiters and what strategies do the children encounter: a) economic; b) identity formation; c) social deprivation; d) feeling of vulnerability; e) militarization; f) mental development; g) ideology/ religious-sectarian; or all together? How do the children perceive these encounters and make sense of their recruitment to the Shiite Fatemiyoun Brigade? To which extent has the ideology of Shi’ism played an important role for them in joining the Syrian War? This is a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews which combines procedures from two approaches and techniques: an ethnographic approach and a narrative approach that explores the interviewees’ experiences in a period of time and also generates detailed insights. READ MORE
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2. Beyond the dichotomies of a coercion and voluntary recruitment Afghan unaccompanied minors unveil their recruitment process in Iran
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för mellanösternstudierAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. Neighbors of Fatima. : Concepualizations of Shari'a among Female Shi'ite Intellectuals in Qom.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. Shouting in the Dark? The Arab Spring as an Expression of Social Anomie in the Bahraini context
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : In the beginning of 2012, on the 25th of January, Egyptians celebrated the first anniversary of Egyptian Revolution, while Bahrain’s anniversary of the February 14 Revolution was marked by violent protest demanding social, political and economic reforms and an end to discriminating policies. Even though one year passed since these revolutionary movements spread from Tunisia all over the Arab world, social scientists still do not provide adequate frameworks to understand and reconstruct the causes and effects of these popular movements. READ MORE
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5. One Man - One Desire - A Study of the Reasons of the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and its Mobilization Process
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Iran, a country generally seen as abusing the laws of human rights in favour of the Islamic laws and where women is being punished if not wearing headscarves in public. However, the great opposition against this country's laws is probably not aware of the revolution in 1979 that formed the contemporary society of Iran. READ MORE
