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Assessment Of Refugee Status Determination Procedure At Unhcr’S Cairo Office 2001-2002, Michael Kagan
Assessment Of Refugee Status Determination Procedure At Unhcr’S Cairo Office 2001-2002, Michael Kagan
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In Egypt, refugee status determination (RSD) by the United Nations refugee agency is frequently the single most important decision anyone will make affecting the life of an asylum-seeker. In 2001, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Cairo received the most individual RSD applications of all of the agency's offices worldwide. The Cairo office has taken some significant steps to improve the RSD process. At the same time, some important international standards of fair and effective RSD procedures have not been implemented. In recent years, the number of refugee applicants in Egypt has grown and UNHCR-Cairo's resources have …
Factors Influencing The Success Of Television Presenters, Dina Farouk Abou Zeid
Factors Influencing The Success Of Television Presenters, Dina Farouk Abou Zeid
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My topic is about the factors influencing the success of T.V presenters. The study is based on the viewers' opinions and views. The viewers are different in their gender, age, social class, and education. This study is the first about this topic not only in the American University in Cairo, but also in the Egyptian universities. The purpose of the study is related to the importance of the topic which is related to the importance of the T.V presenters' roles in television and in programs. From the literature review, it is clear that there is a need to study the …
Gender And Authority In Almoravid Andalusia: Subjects/Objects Of Regulation In Ibn Abdun's Risala Fi Al Qada'wa Al Hisba, Sean Connor Riordan
Gender And Authority In Almoravid Andalusia: Subjects/Objects Of Regulation In Ibn Abdun's Risala Fi Al Qada'wa Al Hisba, Sean Connor Riordan
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Recent strands of western historical writing understand gender in medieval Islamic societies through any of number of local cultural, religious and political discourses. This type of writing shifts the focus of historical research away from questions regarding whether Islam debases or improves the status of women--questions that tend to immobilize the subject in a polemic of competing essentialisms-and instead finds gender as having been produced in historically dynamic local processes. My thesis attempts to contribute to th.is literature by exploring how gender functioned as a regulatory issue in the context of the Almoravid political-religious movement in alAndalus through a close …
The Status Of Women's Rights In Egypt, Sigrid Grude Amb
The Status Of Women's Rights In Egypt, Sigrid Grude Amb
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The Gendered Self And The Gendered Other, Nana Aba Kyereba Bentil
The Gendered Self And The Gendered Other, Nana Aba Kyereba Bentil
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The Terms Of Empowerment, Sherine Hafez
The Terms Of Empowerment, Sherine Hafez
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Changes In Family Gender Roles Among The Southern Sudan Refugee Families In Cairo, James Wani-Kana Lino Lejukole
Changes In Family Gender Roles Among The Southern Sudan Refugee Families In Cairo, James Wani-Kana Lino Lejukole
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This work addresses changes in family gender roles among southern Sudanese refugee families in Cairo. Its objectives are to bring to light the feelings, perceptions and views mostly among married men about the experiences of their lives in exile, how they feel when they could not perform their male gender roles but are forced by circumstances to perform female gender roles in the family when their wives are away working as domestic servants to earn incomes for their families. Its also examines husband-wife relations, decision-making, authority and power in the family in relation to the role of breadwinner. The study …