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Item Restricted Exploring Saudi Families’ Engagement in the US Early Childhood Schools: Experiences of Bearing the Burden(University of South Florida, 2024) Alberaidi, Sarah; Han, SophiaA vast body of research in early childhood education has shown the positive effect of parents' engagement on children's emotional, cognitive, and social development. However, researchers identified limitations to parent involvement activities within the culturally diverse context. The purpose of this case study was to fill the literature gap in exploring how Saudi families engage in their children's early education in the United States. Within the context of sociocultural theory, Muscrit theory, family ethnothories, and mirror, window, sliding glass doors framework, this study aimed to understand the family engagement practices of three Saudi families whose children enrolled in early childhood U.S. schools. Semi-structured interviews with both parents and documents were used to collect the data. The data were thematically analyzed. This study's findings revealed that a welcoming and uncomplicated environment helped Saudi families to engage in their children's schools. The families also stated challenges and obstacles that affected their engagement practices in their children's schools and at home. Islamic beliefs, cultural norms, personal preferences, and social anticipations create a burden and a barrier for Saudi families to be able to engage in their children's schools actively. This study discussed implications and recommendations for early childhood schools, programs, teachers, and teacher education programs. Understanding Saudi families' perceptions and experiences in the U.S. early childhood education has the potential to offer valuable insights that can guide our approach and future investigations in the field of early childhood education.35 0Item Restricted Reading Zora Neale Hurston’s Works Through an Islamic Lens: The Absence of Islam in Moses, Man of the Mountain and Jonah’s Gourd Vine.(Saudi Digital Library, 2023) Alqahtani, Asma Abdullah Saud; Lake, Crystal BelleZora Neale Hurston is an African-American writer, anthropologist, and ethnographer of the Harlem Renaissance. She is distinguished for documenting and celebrating the religions of African Americans in the South. In this study, the author argues that Hurston represents the practiced religions in Southern African-American communities in Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Moses, Man of the Mountain while noticeably omitting Islam, despite the fact that Islam predominated in more Northern African-American Communities as a reclaimed religious history and practice. Hurston’s exclusion prompts inquiries into the history of Islamic erasures in Southern African-American communities and introduces ambiguity in interpreting the metaphors found in Jonah’s Gourd Vine because of the differences between the Biblical and Quranic narratives surrounding the figure of Jonah. The author concludes that Hurston omits Islam because it was not noticeably practiced in the South among the African-American community. Finally, the author argues that Muslim readers must understand the Biblical Jonah to understand the metaphorical meanings of the vine relative to the protagonist John Buddy Pearson in Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine.42 0Item Restricted Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia: A Conflict of Laws, Custom and Policy Reforms(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-10-25) Barnawi, Samiyah; Batlan, Felice; Walters, AdrianIn the contexts of Saudi Vision 2030 introduced in 2016 as well as moderate Islamic policy reforms introduced in 2017, issues of women empowerment through education and employment occurred in various domains, including health, sport, law, media, economics, politics, and oil and gas sectors, to name just a few. In this climate, there are still no studies that engage with how Saudi women’s rights have been understood, advocated, enacted, contested, justified and even protected from being challenged. This nascent study frames and examines the intersectionality between Saudi women’s rights, Islamic law and customary law in the context of those recent policy reforms. It explores the following research questions: (a) how Saudi women’s rights are defined, practiced and justified in the context of moderate Islamic policy reforms?, (b) what do the stories of Saudi women reveal about their lived experiences in the context of moderate Islamic reforms?, (c) what challenges do Saudi women encounter related to their rights?, (d) what strategies do Saudi women use to negotiate emerging challenges?, and (f) how do the findings of this study help improve women’s law in Saudi Arabia today? The data of this phenomenological qualitative study emerge from two sources: autobiographical narratives and semi-structured interviews with 15 Saudi females with different social-economic backgrounds (married, singles and/or college female students). The findings revealed that although recent policy reforms enabled some women to have access to different educational and employment opportunities, there were still some women struggling to fully benefit from these reforms. This is due to the fact that the boundaries among (i) customary law/practices (ii) Saudi women’s rights, and (iii) social and policy reforms for women’s rights are still not clearly set. The study highlights its contributions to the scholarship of women’s rights in the Arab and Muslim communities. It also proposes a conceptual framework, grounded in Islamic legal theory, for understand women’s rights and its complexities.54 0