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Cairo's Nubian Families, Peter Geiser
Cairo's Nubian Families, Peter Geiser
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This study examines the social and economic framework of the Nubian community in an atterrpt to discover whether, in fact, the Nubian community currently maintains its sense of social solidarity within a societary context of social change and, if so, how and to what degree this is accomplished. One aspect of this study to be presented in this monograph is the adjustments of Nubian families to the urban condition of Cairo.
Population And Urbanization In Morocco, Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Population And Urbanization In Morocco, Saad Eddin Ibrahim
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This study examines the interplay between two sets of variables in Morocco: population dynamics and urbanization. Its ultimate aim is to provide a solid empirical and conceptual basis for the fonnulation of sound policies for the implementation of a balanced, synchronized development progran. The chief task of the present work is to address the situation in Morocco following the colonial experience. Population and migratory patterns are analyzed within this context to detennine their role in the creation of the present situation of disequilibrium.
Living Without Water, Asaad Nadim, Nawal El-Messiri Nadim, Sohair Mehanna, John H. Nixon
Living Without Water, Asaad Nadim, Nawal El-Messiri Nadim, Sohair Mehanna, John H. Nixon
Faculty Books
The socio-economic study reported here was conducted in July and August of 1979 as part of the Egyptian Government's Metered Water Service Connection Program for improving and expanding water and wastewater utilities in Greater Cairo. Approximately one quarter of the population of Greater Cairo presently lacks direct access to the city's water supply_system and must obtain its water from public fountains. Households lacking water connections are chiefly in the poorest areas of the city. The current program is thus ·geared to serving residential areas whose inhabitants are on the lower half of the city's income scale. These, however, are the …