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Designing and Evaluating Technology with an Oral Community in Southern Oman

Description: The purpose of this study is to design and evaluate a technology tool that would be useful for Jibbali tribe members in the Middle East. This research hopes to understand an oral community’s perception, adoption, and/or resistance to a specific technology tool. In southern Oman, grandmothers are struggling to speak the same language as their grandchildren. Mothers, speaking an unwritten language known as Jibbali to the outside world, sent their children to school where they learned to read and … more
Date: December 2024
Creator: Heaton, S. Marty
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The State of Democracy in the Arab World

Description: This comparative study assesses the state of democracy and examines the process of democratization in the Arab World between the years 1980-1993. It addresses shortcomings in the mainstream democracy literature that excluded the Arab World from the global democratic revolution on political cultural grounds. To fulfil the objectives of this study, I employ both the qualitative and quantitative research approaches to test a number of hypothesized relationships. I hypothesize that transition to de… more
Date: December 1995
Creator: Al-Olimat, Muhamad S. (Muhamad Salim)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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