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School Teachers' Perspectives On Homework: A Comparative Study, Naglaa Fawzy Hassaan
School Teachers' Perspectives On Homework: A Comparative Study, Naglaa Fawzy Hassaan
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Homework practices vary widely among teachers. Some teachers make well planned assignments that combine learning and pleasure. Others use homework as a routine to provide students with drills on important activities. These wide variations stem from the teachers' different attitudes and opinions on homework. This research examines the perspectives of teachers, working in schools operating in Egypt whether Languagel or International, on homework. It compares the view points and practices of teachers working in Egyptian Language Schools to those of teachers working in International Schools located in Cairo. The research addresses the question: What are teachers' perspectives and practices of …
The Afghan Government's Relationship With The Pashtun Community And Its Effect On Stability; A Comparative Approach, Alfred Jasins
The Afghan Government's Relationship With The Pashtun Community And Its Effect On Stability; A Comparative Approach, Alfred Jasins
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the Afghan government's relationship with the Pashtun communities affects the group's acquiescence and support, thereby creating a less belligerent and more stable environment. The emphasis on the Pashtun communities is especially relevant due to their historical role as king maker, as well as the leaderships primary threat of delegitimization and conflict. To fully understand how the current Karzai government's relationship with the Pashtun communities has failed to create conditions amenable to stability and has generally fostered an environment of discord and conflict, this analysis will utilize a comparative approach. The comparison …
Financial And Institutional Sustainability Of Development Projects: The Case Of The Green Corridor Project And The Case Of The High Dam Lake Area Project, Nadine Hisham Fawzy
Financial And Institutional Sustainability Of Development Projects: The Case Of The Green Corridor Project And The Case Of The High Dam Lake Area Project, Nadine Hisham Fawzy
Theses and Dissertations
This study aims to discuss the negative implications of the narrow scope adopted by many donor agencies when addressing sustainability for development projects implemented in developing countries. This has resulted in a very limited impact when it comes to official development assistance (ODA). The study explores the main challenges facing the sustainability of local community development projects in specific; explores attempts to address those challenges; and then presents a more sustainable approach that is based on robust financial and institutional pillars. It argues that the introduction of such pillars creates a new approach to local community development projects that enhance …
Trickle Down This Effect: Negotiations Of Culture, Care, And Freedom In Contemporary Cairo International Schools, Anne Caldwell
Trickle Down This Effect: Negotiations Of Culture, Care, And Freedom In Contemporary Cairo International Schools, Anne Caldwell
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis attempts to analyze the contradictions and practices of a neoliberal ethical project among a privileged class in contemporary Cairo. The growing presence and availability of international schools in Cairo has reconfigured particular aspects of culture, care, and freedom for elite subjects over the past forty years. The main research question is: how are globalized notions of well being, self-realization, and personal fulfillment transmitted through the work of neoliberal discourse and staff at international schools in Cairo. It has been identified in this thesis that certain forms of care and responsibility are tightly bound and shaped by a neoliberal …
The Attitude Of Egyptian Nubian University Students Towards Arabic And Nubian Languages, Sanaa Gamal Abou-Ras
The Attitude Of Egyptian Nubian University Students Towards Arabic And Nubian Languages, Sanaa Gamal Abou-Ras
Theses and Dissertations
This research investigates the attitude of Egyptian Nubian university students towards the Arabic and the two Nubian languages, Nobiin and Kenuzi-Dongola. The Nubian languages are called by Egyptian Nubians, Fadijja/Fadicca and Kenzi, respectively. Nubians are people who live in the Nubia area which lies between Egypt's southern borders with the northern part of Sudan. Nubia is divided into two parts - one under the Egyptian regime, and the other under the Sudanese regime. The number of participants used in the study was forty - half male and half female. Twenty of these participants live in the Nubian region and are …
Framing Of Political Forces In Liberal, Islamist And Government Newspapers In Egypt: A Content Analysis, Noha El-Nahass
Framing Of Political Forces In Liberal, Islamist And Government Newspapers In Egypt: A Content Analysis, Noha El-Nahass
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A Socio-Ecological Assessment Of Unemployment Interventions In Cairo, Egypt, Hana Emad Eldin Fahmy
A Socio-Ecological Assessment Of Unemployment Interventions In Cairo, Egypt, Hana Emad Eldin Fahmy
Theses and Dissertations
An assessment of interventions working on solving the problem of unemployment in Cairo, Egypt was conducted in order to identify strengths, and to map out where interventions fell on a socio-ecological model. A one-day Appreciative Inquiry (AI) workshop was conducted for 16 participants who represented NGOs, social businesses, donors, training centers, recruitment agencies, technical institutes, educational institutions, and governmental organizations. Inductive content data analysis was used to analyze the themes that arose from the AI. Results show that 24% of the interventions work on multiple levels of the socio-ecological system. Strengths identified are having comprehensive interventions that tackle different aspects …
Credibility Of Online Political News Among Egyptian Youth, Dalia Elabd
Credibility Of Online Political News Among Egyptian Youth, Dalia Elabd
Theses and Dissertations
This study confirms previous literature discoveries that perceived credibility of medium, source and message have a direct influence on the perceived credibility of online political news. Each credibility factor is examined separately to identify its influence and strength on the dependent variable. Medium credibility, Internet, is considered the factor that has the strongest influence on perceived credibility of online political news, followed by the source then finally message of online political news. Consumption of online political news has also a direct influence on perception of credibility of online political news but to a much lesser extent. Timely coverage, freedom of …
Issue Salience Of Facebook Users In Egypt: An Agenda-Setting Experiment, Mark Visonà
Issue Salience Of Facebook Users In Egypt: An Agenda-Setting Experiment, Mark Visonà
Theses and Dissertations
This study explores issue salience among Egyptian Facebook users during the parliamentary elections of December 2011. The researcher examines the potential of agenda-setting effects occurring from the use of social media as an information source. In this study, a field experiment with a pretest/posttest design was conducted on 71 undergraduates of the American University in Cairo. Participants were assigned to treatment groups, some of which were exposed to media concerning the issue of ignorance/illiteracy in Egypt. This exposure was an attempt to increase the salience of the issue for Facebook users. The study also examined the relationship between demographic factors …
The Role And Impact Of Social Media On Arab Networks On Arab Spring: A Case Study On The Egyptian Revolution, Mai Nabil Allam
The Role And Impact Of Social Media On Arab Networks On Arab Spring: A Case Study On The Egyptian Revolution, Mai Nabil Allam
Theses and Dissertations
The wide spread of social media allows undisciplined groups to share and communicate quickly at a reduced cost so that they can easily form collective actions. Thus, electronic revolutions begin worldwide as all people for the first time in history are politically conscious and interactive. This study examines the role of social media in the Arab uprising with the Egyptian revolution as a case study. This primary research linked both the uses and gratification theory to the new usage of social media and the spiral of silence theory to people confidence in forming collective actions. A survey was conducted among …
Seeking A Place In A Nation: The Exodus Of The Tunisian Jewish Population 1954-1967, Sean Haley
Seeking A Place In A Nation: The Exodus Of The Tunisian Jewish Population 1954-1967, Sean Haley
Theses and Dissertations
In the eleven years after the independence and creation of the Republic of Tunisia, the population of the Jewish community declined by approximately 88.7% because of emigration to France, Israel, and other countries. This period, as will be shown, was critical in shaping the ethno-religious arrangement of peoples in Tunisia today. This occurred because a centralizing newly-independent state created a nation through identity based upon citizenship. Tunisia is a particularly good case study of homogenizing post-colonial nation-states because the government never sought to exclude any part of the population through direct action. Instead, domestic and international events that shook the …
Human Trafficking In Egypt: Policy And Alternatives?, Bernadette Michel Guirguis
Human Trafficking In Egypt: Policy And Alternatives?, Bernadette Michel Guirguis
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis attempts to analyze the issues associated with human trafficking in context to relevant policies and possible alternatives in Egypt. This growing industry is based on Egypt's strategic location, and it has raised several concerns, as a growing number of individuals are being forced into marriages, prostitution, labor, and organ trading. The main research question is: how effective are the Egyptian government policies to combat the human trafficking and in what areas could they be improved. Thus, this calls for the immediate attention of policy makers. It has been identified in this paper that better governance and administrative policies …
Egypt's Post-Colonial Approaches To Internal Self-Determination, Charlotte Kaeppel
Egypt's Post-Colonial Approaches To Internal Self-Determination, Charlotte Kaeppel
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the linkage between the right to self-determination and democracy. In view of the popular uprisings taking place throughout the Middle East and North Africa, it is highly relevant to revisit the concept of self-determination. In particular, considering the undetermined nature of the right to self-determination, this thesis examines the contemporary legal meaning of self-determination. Specifically, it questions the prospects of â the peopleâ to self-determination against the background of undemocratic structures at the global level. Following the introduction, the second part of this thesis deals with a critical overview of the international legal ideology on self-determination. In …
Networked Control Systems For Intelligent Transportation Systems And Industrial Automation, Tarek Khaled Salaheldin Ismail Refaat
Networked Control Systems For Intelligent Transportation Systems And Industrial Automation, Tarek Khaled Salaheldin Ismail Refaat
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis presents a study of two different applications of Networked Control Systems. The first is: Ethernet Networked Control System On-board of Train-wagons. An Ethernet backbone is shared between control and entertainment. The wagon contains a dedicated control server and a dedicated entertainment server, which act as fault-tolerant machines for one another. In the event of a server failure, the remaining machine can serve both entertainment and/or control. The study aims at enhancing system design in order to maximize the tolerable entertainment load in the event of a control/entertainment server failure, while not causing any control violations. This fault-tolerant system …
The Occupy Wall Street Movement As A 'Space Of Profanation', Alberto Rinaldi
The Occupy Wall Street Movement As A 'Space Of Profanation', Alberto Rinaldi
Theses and Dissertations
Born in a crucial historical moment - the decennial of 9/11, and more than ten years after the anti-globalization movement of Seattle - the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) has awaken again protest and dissent, for the first time at the heart of the largest financial centre of world. More â mature' than its predecessor and also increasingly more encompassing, this movement is presently working as a sort of â sounding board' of protest and dissent, finding its inspiration in the Arab Spring, the Spanish indignados, and in all other forms of systemic protests that have flared around the world …
Public Education In The United States In A Post-Brown Era: The Antinomies Of Equal Protection Doctrine, Sarah Rizk
Public Education In The United States In A Post-Brown Era: The Antinomies Of Equal Protection Doctrine, Sarah Rizk
Theses and Dissertations
In the United States, public schools are primarily financed by local tax on property. This property-tax-based system of finance is advantageous for people living in wealthy districts, as they benefit from greater educational funding resources. Residents of poorer districts, however, have the disadvantage of higher taxation that is needed to balance the deficit created by the lower value of property in these areas in order to finance local services. Through the use of local exclusionary planning and zoning powers, local governments can ensure that residents contribute a minimum amount of taxation to fund local services and to zone out â …
Education In The Syrian Golan Heights Under International Human Rights Law And International Humanitarian Law, Michelle Strucke
Education In The Syrian Golan Heights Under International Human Rights Law And International Humanitarian Law, Michelle Strucke
Theses and Dissertations
Compulsory education, in particular history and religious education, is often used by states as a critical tool of nation building, as states attempt to socialize and shape the attitudes and beliefs of citizens in line with their strategic aims. As a state that defines itself as "Jewish and democratic" and that has instituted special compulsory education curricula for students on the basis of ethnicity and religion, the state of Israel is no exception. The Syrian Golan despite being under occupation by Israel for the last forty-five years has been written about only sparingly compared to the overwhelming amount of research …
Building Nations, Dividing Peoples: Israel, Syria And The Struggle For The Druze, Daniel W. Stoker
Building Nations, Dividing Peoples: Israel, Syria And The Struggle For The Druze, Daniel W. Stoker
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines how the development of nationalism and foundation of nation-states in the Levant have contributed to the development of new national identities among the Druze communities in the Golan Heights and Israel and how it has impacted each community. This study builds on the ideas of Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm regarding nationalism and the development of the nation as both invented and imagined. This thesis then analyzes the policies of Israel and Syria regarding the Druze communities in the Golan Heights and the question of Druze feelings toward these policies. It also examines how Druze history has …
Private Military Companies: Assisting The Transnational Capitalist Class In Accumulation By Dispossession, Tori Aarseth
Private Military Companies: Assisting The Transnational Capitalist Class In Accumulation By Dispossession, Tori Aarseth
Theses and Dissertations
The topic of this thesis is the privatization of security and military services, and how the emergence of a private military industry should be understood. The argument I put forward has two integrated components. The first has to do with the ways in which privately provided security differs from publicly provided security, and the second with how privatization of security affects the distribution of power between social classes. I argue that privately provided security differs from publicly provided security in three main ways. First, the provision of security is depoliticized and turned into a technical issue that should be dealt …
The Voice Of The Other: Representations Of The United States In Egyptian Popular Discourse, Sara Pulliam
The Voice Of The Other: Representations Of The United States In Egyptian Popular Discourse, Sara Pulliam
Theses and Dissertations
The Egyptian-American relationship is complex and problematic on many levels and, similar to Arab-American relations as a whole, often draws the attention of policy makers and academics within political science and its subfield of international relations. Previous analyses of this topic have focused on the dimensions surrounding US policies in the Middle East and the consequences of these policies on both the US and the Arab region. These studies range from being scathingly critical, such as Gregory's The Colonial Present, to advocating for a US foreign policy that is based in rational pursuit of interests that overlooks the discontent of …
The Influence Of The Public Opinion On The American Foreign Policy Towards Iraq 1990-2011, Ayman Nada
The Influence Of The Public Opinion On The American Foreign Policy Towards Iraq 1990-2011, Ayman Nada
Theses and Dissertations
This study examines the relationship between public opinion and American foreign policy towards Iraq since August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and the subsequent US and coalition war to force an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, until December 2011, when the American troops left Iraq. Specifically, this study attempts to provide answers to how much congruence there was between public opinion and American foreign policy in Iraq, and what factors and variables affected this relationship. To answer these questions this study uses secondary analysis as a major method and trend analysis as a minor method. This study analyzed a sample, obtained …
Muslim Brothers In Egypt: Politics Of Generational Gaps, Doha Samir Mostafa Abdelgawad
Muslim Brothers In Egypt: Politics Of Generational Gaps, Doha Samir Mostafa Abdelgawad
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an attempt to address the politics of generational gaps within Muslim Brotherhood Movement in Egypt since mid 1980s till 2011. It sheds light on patterns of generational interactions, issues of concern, and their impact on the future trajectory of the Movement. It conceptually employs the Generational Unit Model, drawn largely from the work of Karl Mannheim. In doing so, the study applies focused semi-structured interviews with the movement's affiliated members from antagonistic generational units. The study addresses the socioeconomic and political context that shape the consciousness of two generational waves within the movement. It descriptively addresses the …
The Relationship Between Knowledge Management And Innovation: Empirical Study On Auc And Mansoura University, Ashraf Mohamed Numair
The Relationship Between Knowledge Management And Innovation: Empirical Study On Auc And Mansoura University, Ashraf Mohamed Numair
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between knowledge Management (KM) and innovation capability in two universities. They are the American University in Cairo and Mansoura University. Given the scarcity of studies that investigated these variables within the higher education context, we borrowed gold et al model that links KM to performance effectiveness in business sector and adapted it to the higher education context. According to this model, KM is seen as KM infrastructure (Culture, structure, and technology), and KM processes (k-acquisition, k-conversion, k-application, and k-protection). The findings show that AUC supersedes Mansoura University in terms of …
Reform Program In Developing Countries: Higher Education Reform And Accountability In Mozambique, Bernardete Sebastiao Gomana
Reform Program In Developing Countries: Higher Education Reform And Accountability In Mozambique, Bernardete Sebastiao Gomana
Theses and Dissertations
The present research deals with the question of education in Mozambique. It is an analysis on the tertiary education or higher education sub-sector. Considering the importance of this sub-sector to the economic and social development, the reform undertaken to address the deficiencies in education sector is one of the main tools of analysis. In fact, in the wave of African reforms, Mozambique introduced reforms at different levels of society, and higher education is considered as one of the government's priority. Therefore, to analyze and assess the reforms in higher education, the research uses the expansion of education physically and quality, …
Out-Of-Country Voting Systems And Egyptian Elections: A Future Outlook, Sherine Mohamed El-Saeed
Out-Of-Country Voting Systems And Egyptian Elections: A Future Outlook, Sherine Mohamed El-Saeed
Theses and Dissertations
The 25 January revolution has created a new reality in Egypt. It has made Egyptian citizens more eager than ever to participate in the political life and to exercise their long awaited right to elect their representatives and leaderships. It was therefore inevitable for Egyptians living abroad to demand their right to vote. The Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections (SJCE) accordingly approved a system for out-of-country voting that was implemented in the Parliamentary Elections 2011/2012. â Postal Voting' was chosen for the process. The Committee's choice of the voting system was done in an exceptionally short period of time and …
Arabizi: A Writing Variety Worth Learning? An Exploratory Study Of The Views Of Foreign Learners Of Arabic On Arabizi., Mona Farrag
Theses and Dissertations
This paper investigates the views of learners of Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) on Arabizi as well as the possible effects of these views on the field of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL). For purposes of this paper, Arabizi is defined as: writing Arabic in Latin characters and Arabic numerals on computer-mediated communication (CMC). The study tries to answer the following research question: What is the attitude of AFL learners on Arabizi regarding: a. its effect on their communicative skills with native Egyptians on CMC? b. learning AFL? In a pilot study, a web-based questionnaire was posted …
Linguistic Projection And The Ownership Of English: Solidarity And Power With The English Language In Egypt, Alexander Lewko
Linguistic Projection And The Ownership Of English: Solidarity And Power With The English Language In Egypt, Alexander Lewko
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates aspects of English usage in Egypt, including any possible linguistic projection of solidarity or power with other Egyptians, and the degree, if any, of linguistic ownership of English. As in many other Expanding Circle contexts, English realizes its role in Egypt as lingua franca in order to fulfill educational and business transactions. English is used to such a degree in the Egyptian context that it could at some point become its own variety of World English. Yet, it is possible that a speaker could produce either English or Arabic in different situations in reaction to perceived social …
Seating Arrangement And Cooperative Learning Activities: Students' On-Task/Off-Task Participation In Efl Classrooms, Nohayer Lotfy
Seating Arrangement And Cooperative Learning Activities: Students' On-Task/Off-Task Participation In Efl Classrooms, Nohayer Lotfy
Theses and Dissertations
Research has shown that student participation is affected by a number of factors that include students' gender, personality differences as well as class environment. This class environment includes classroom seating arrangements which are believed to play an important role in fostering students' on-task behavior. However, how a seating arrangement can encourage on-task or off-task behavior is found to depend on how far this seating arrangement agrees with the activity being done and the interaction pattern aimed at in class. On the other hand, some research linked teachers' choice of different classroom seating arrangement and their beliefs in their role inside …
Exploring The Biodiversity Of Anammox In Atlantis Ii And Kebrit Brine Pools' Interfaces, Ibrahim Farag
Exploring The Biodiversity Of Anammox In Atlantis Ii And Kebrit Brine Pools' Interfaces, Ibrahim Farag
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The Red Sea brine pools are unique environments to assess the biochemical adaptation of marine bacteria. The role of nitrogen in marine biogeochemistry is central and greatly influences the diverse elements including carbon and phosphorus. Anammox communities play a significant role in the total nitrogen loss especially in deep sea and deep ocean ecosystems. Despite this, the biodiversity of Anammox bacteria have not been previously investigated in any brine pool ecosystems. With the advances of the metagenomics based approaches, the exploration of the yet uncultured microbial communities including the Anammox bacteria has taken different perspectives. Anammox communities are currently analyzed …
In Silico Identification Of Potential Biomass And Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes In The Microbial Community Of The Red Sea Atlantis-Ii Brine Pool Using Metagenomic Approach, Norhan Mohammed Magdy Mofeed
In Silico Identification Of Potential Biomass And Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes In The Microbial Community Of The Red Sea Atlantis-Ii Brine Pool Using Metagenomic Approach, Norhan Mohammed Magdy Mofeed
Theses and Dissertations
Atlantis II is the largest brine pool in the Red Sea. It lies at 2,200m deep with an area of about 60km2. The lower convective layer of the Atlantis II brine pool (ATII-LCL) is characterized by extreme conditions, the temperature reaches 68.2°C, salinity of 270 psu, and there is high concentration of heavy metals. Microbial communities inhabiting this harsh environment are expected to have enzymes and proteins that are adapted to these conditions. Such proteins and enzymes would be very attractive candidates not just to understand the structural alteration that lead to their adaptation to these abiotic factors, but also …