Search results for "SLAM"

Do Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Trade Openness Explain the Disparity in ICT Diffusion between Asia-Pacific and the Islamic Middle Eastern Coun…

2010

This study investigates the impact of FDI and trade openness on ICT diffusion in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions from 1996-2005. The results indicate that while dissimilarities exist between the economies included in this study in terms of their level of socio-economic and political development, education and the growth of GDP have had a positive impact on ICT diffusion in both regions. However, while FDI has generally had a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion in Asia-Pacific economies, its impact on Middle Eastern economies has been detrimental. The results of this study also show that trade-openness has had, in general, a positive and significant impact on ICT diffus…

Prejudice toward American Muslims: An integrated threat analysis

2013

This study explores prejudice toward American Muslims. Prejudice is conceptualized using Stephan and Stephan’s integrated threat theory (ITT). ITT identifies four kinds of threat that can lead to prejudice: realistic threats, symbolic threats, stereotypes, and intergroup anxiety. Data were gathered in the United States (N = 281) among self-identified Christians. Findings confirm: 1) a positive correlation between real and symbolic threats, and stereotypes, 2) increased contact with an immigrant group, in this case Muslims, is negatively correlated with perceptions of real and symbolic threat, and 3) levels of prejudice differ based on level of education. Theoretical and practical implicatio…

Politics of Fear and Racialized Rape: Intersectional Reading of the Kempele Rape Case

2018

Much of the anxiety, hatred, and fear felt toward asylum seekers as racialized others that had been aroused and incited during the summer and autumn of “the refugee crisis” of 2015 crystallized in the Kempele rape case. The case refers to the incident in which accusations were broadcast in the Finnish media that a suspected rape of a young girl by two refugees based at a newly established immigration detention center had occurred in the small town of Kempele in Northern Ostrobothnia on November 2015. It is an illuminating example of how race and ethnicity intertwine with gender in contemporary discussions that take place in both the traditional and social media. In this chapter I analyze th…

The Intersections of Sexuality and Religion in the Anti-Interculturalist Rhetoric in Finnish Internet Discussion on Muslim Homosexuals in Amsterdam

2014

In recent decades, Europe has faced the rise of nationalist populist movements objecting to increased immigration, cultural pluralisation, and interculturalism in European societies. Public discussion on interculturalism have often focused on the encounters of – and the wrangles with – migrants and local people and their diverse values. The members of anti-immigrant movements commonly object to cultural pluralism and intercultural practices and foster ‘traditional’, ‘Western’, and ‘national’ values. The discourse influenced by conservative ideologies also often embraces traces of xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny. In this paper, we ask how and why interculturalism is opposed in populist …

Le donne dell’Islam, una vita s–velata

2015

L'islam tra "fondamentalismo" e diritti dell'uomo

2019

I fatti recenti legati alla ripresa del fondamentalismo/terrorismo islamico e l'ondata di attentati e di persecuzioni contro i cristiani in giro per il mondo hanno sollecitato una nuova discussione critica, in particolare in Europa, in ordine alla compatibilità dell'Islam con i principi della modernità e dello Stato liberal-democratico.

Orientālistika

2003

Feminism (Islamic) in ODIP: The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy a cura di Thorsten BotzBornstein

2020

The dream of Abha. Note su una ricerca universitaria

2019

Il testo conduce una riflessione sugli esiti della ricerca condotta (in ambito universitario) sull'architettura islamica in Arabia Saudita. Si tratta, anzitutto, di un lavoro di studio e di riconoscimento dei caratteri tradizionali riguardanti lo spazio, il linguaggio, ma anche gli insediamenti che hanno caratterizzato il Paese nella sua storia recente e fino al tempo attuale. Inoltre, a partire dalle condizioni tramandate dalla dalla tradizione, si propone un ragionamento secondo il quale il progetto di architettura interpreta lo sviluppo sostenibile e coerente delle città. Ciò alla luce delle linee strategiche dettate da "Vision 2030", il programma con cui il Principe Salman bin Abdulaziz…

Amman. Il progetto di architettura tra modernità e tradizione

2019

Amman è luogo denso di storia e avido di modernità, confine entropico di culture in cui giordani, iracheni, palestinesi, siriani, insieme esprimono l’anima composita della città. L’odierna struttura insediativa è il frutto dell’espansione realizzata sui resti della Philadelphia romana dall’emiro Abdullah intorno al 1921. In quest’area l’Abdali Urban Regeneretion Project, una grande scommessa di trasformazione urbana avviata sin dal 2013, prevede la costruzione di grattacieli, edifici multifunzionali e commerciali, parchi, con interventi pubblici e privati. Qui, sono sorte negli ultimi anni due importanti architetture: l’Al-Hussein Cultural Center e la Greater Amman Municipality. Proprio in …