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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 …
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
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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 …
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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Economic And Financial Valuation Of The Marble Industry In Egypt, Farah Ahmed Haggag
Economic And Financial Valuation Of The Marble Industry In Egypt, Farah Ahmed Haggag
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This study is mainly to evaluate economically and financially the whole marble industry in Egypt. An industrial analysis on the marble industry is done which includes: summary on the international market of marble, sector and enterprises' structure, nature of competition, pricing, and differentiated marble and granite products in the local market. Also, a cluster analysis on the marble cluster is done that comprise: the marble cluster map, the marble cluster diamond, the five forces that shape industry competition, and competitive analysis. A financial valuation is conducted on the marble supply chain divided to the extraction and processing using an investment …
Strategies For Change: Exploring The Impact Of The 2004 Nationality Law Reform Campaign On Gender Equality In Egypt, Catherine Mackay
Strategies For Change: Exploring The Impact Of The 2004 Nationality Law Reform Campaign On Gender Equality In Egypt, Catherine Mackay
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Prior to 2004 Egyptian law allowed for conferral of nationality by paternal descent only, with few exceptions. By barring Egyptian women from passing their nationality to their children, such legislation reflected a belief that women were in fact not full members of the national political community on an equal footing with men. Facing pressure from both internal and external sources, the Egyptian government reformed the law in 2004, thereby allowing women to confer their nationality on their children. Yet nearly eight years later many children eligible for Egyptian nationality have yet to acquire it, and Egyptian women are arguably no …
Realizing The Right To Education In Egypt: An Assessment Of Primary Education In Relation To International Standards, Fawziah Abdel Rahman Qadir
Realizing The Right To Education In Egypt: An Assessment Of Primary Education In Relation To International Standards, Fawziah Abdel Rahman Qadir
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The right to education in international human rights law is contained in number of international treaties. The most comprehensive coverage of the right is found within the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) under articles 13 and 14. The primary level of education is an essential and integral phase in the development of a child, without the right to education children are unable to realize other rights. This research assesses the functionality of the Egyptian primary education system and its compliance with the international human rights standards of education, specifically the utilizing the 4-A schematic. The indicators …
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
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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 …
Newspapers Coverage Of The Egyptian January 25 Revolution: A Framing Analysis, Ekram Ibrahim
Newspapers Coverage Of The Egyptian January 25 Revolution: A Framing Analysis, Ekram Ibrahim
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This study analyzes the different frames used by popular newspapers Al-Ahram and Al-Masry Al-Youm in covering Egypt's January 25 revolution. The researcher conducted a content analysis of news stories and news features of both newspapers during the 18 days of uprisings that started on January 25, 2011 and ended by former President Hosni Mubarak handing over power to the Supreme Council of Armed Forced (SCAF) on February 11, 2011. The study analyzes 241 stories in Al-Ahram and 174 stories in Al-Masry Al-Youm during this period. The researcher imed at exploring the different frames used by each newspaper, whether those frames …
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 …
Muslim Brothers In Egypt: Politics Of Generational Gaps, Doha Samir Mostafa Abdelgawad
Muslim Brothers In Egypt: Politics Of Generational Gaps, Doha Samir Mostafa Abdelgawad
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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 …
Human Trafficking In Egypt: Policy And Alternatives?, Bernadette Michel Guirguis
Human Trafficking In Egypt: Policy And Alternatives?, Bernadette Michel Guirguis
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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 …
The Church In The Square: Negotiations Of Religion And Revolution At An Evangelical Church In Cairo, Egypt, Anna Dowell
The Church In The Square: Negotiations Of Religion And Revolution At An Evangelical Church In Cairo, Egypt, Anna Dowell
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In the wake of the Egyptian January 25, 2011 popular uprisings that deposed Hosni Mubarak from the presidency, youth and leaders from Kanisset Kasr el Dobara (KDEC) in Tahrir Square embarked on new and unpredictable political projects and activisms. This ethnographic study is an engagement with these new revolutionary negotiations on the part of the largest Protestant congregation in the Middle East. Using participant observation, focus groups, and interviews this research seeks to elucidate the ways that youth and leaders utilized institutionalized discourse, religious imagery, and relational networks in order to carve out a place in the Egyptian public sphere …
Molding And Moving Bodies In A Neoliberal World: African Football Labor Migrants In Egypt, Andrea Groves
Molding And Moving Bodies In A Neoliberal World: African Football Labor Migrants In Egypt, Andrea Groves
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Egypt has a large profitable football industry that increasingly attracts the attention of both football agents wanting to earn income from another market and sub-Saharan football players hoping to further a career by using Egypt as an intermediary between their home countries and Europe. The labor migration of sub-Saharan football players to Egypt has been enabled mainly by neoliberal, market-orientated changes adopted by FIFA, the CAF, the European Union, and the Egyptian football industry itself. Yet more importantly it is the individual actors that implement and take advantage of these hegemonic spheres of influence. This thesis explores how these individual …
Gender And Identity In Contemporary Coptic Society, Hazel Haddon
Gender And Identity In Contemporary Coptic Society, Hazel Haddon
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This thesis attempts to analyze the role that class plays in determining attitudes to gender among upper middle class Egyptian Copts. Through fieldwork, it explores the relationship between class, religion and gender in the lives of upper middle class Christian women. It argues that members of the upper middle class share a common â class cultureâ and have access to â cosmpolitan capitalâ which is constituted largely in social, cultural, educational and linguistic terms, and which sets them apart from the broader middle class. A distinctive class culture is produced through gender ideologies (described using terms such as â open …
Impact Of Western Cultural Values As Presented In The Egyptian Movies, Mariam El Shenawi
Impact Of Western Cultural Values As Presented In The Egyptian Movies, Mariam El Shenawi
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The social identification and cultivation theories & the impact of Western cultural values as presented in the Egyptian movies: signs of the Western cultural values are noticed in some Egyptian movies. Watching television everyday affects the educated Egyptian’s perception of their culture and the Western culture. This study looks at the cultivation theory and social identification theory and their relation to educated Egyptian’s perception of the image of the US and Egypt. It examines the recent Egyptian movies reflection on the Egyptian lives’ details of eating, talking and speaking. The researcher uses cultivation and social identity theories to check how …
Egyptian Criminals In Suits- Analytical Study On The Criminology Of White Collar Crimes: Special Focus On Egyptian Cases, Sue Ellen Hassouna
Egyptian Criminals In Suits- Analytical Study On The Criminology Of White Collar Crimes: Special Focus On Egyptian Cases, Sue Ellen Hassouna
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Criminology is the science of crime and until the year 1939 crimes were limited to street or conventional crimes committed by criminals of lower socio-economic segments in the society. After 1939 the American criminologist, Edwin Sutherland, has challenged this stereotype of crimes and criminals through his introduction of white-collar crimes that are perpetrated by elite offenders. However, the term has been introduced and utilized for more than seventy years across criminologists and law enforcement agencies it is still a foreign concept to the Egyptian legal system; hence the Criminal Law Code is predominately focused on mainstream criminalities. This absence of …
An Assessment Of The Use Of Gender Mainstreaming To Promote Equality In Pre And Post 2011 Revolutionary Egypt, Farah Shash
An Assessment Of The Use Of Gender Mainstreaming To Promote Equality In Pre And Post 2011 Revolutionary Egypt, Farah Shash
Theses and Dissertations
Although the Egyptian constitution states that all Egyptians are equal before the law and equal in rights and duties, many gender inequalities existed before and continue to exist after the Egyptian 2011 revolution. One approach to creating gender equality is Gender Mainstreaming. This approach aims to achieve gender equality through governments and institutions, asking them to assess the implications and consider the needs and experiences of both men and women in any planned action, legislation, policy or program. This study examines how Gender Mainstreaming has been implemented in Egypt, the challenges it has faced, the opportunities available for further implementation, …
Gendered Nationality Gendered Nation: Analyzing Gender Equality Within The 2004 Nationality Law Reform In Egypt, Marwa Salem Baitelmal
Gendered Nationality Gendered Nation: Analyzing Gender Equality Within The 2004 Nationality Law Reform In Egypt, Marwa Salem Baitelmal
Theses and Dissertations
Nationality law holds a particular political agenda; it has the ability to dictate our membership within a nation and our relationship with the state. Essentially, it is through nationality law that we are extended membership within the enlarged community of the nation. As such, the law carries with it the ability to create the insider while in turn creating the outsider. This distinction becomes blurred when negotiating belonging for women who fall within this gap of the internal/external divide. Women, when forced to negotiate with the nationality law, find themselves as partial members. Their nationality is of a conditional one, …
Institutionalizing The Revolutionary Movement: A Study In The Transformations Of The Egyptian Public Sphere, Reem Abu-Zaid
Institutionalizing The Revolutionary Movement: A Study In The Transformations Of The Egyptian Public Sphere, Reem Abu-Zaid
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This research focuses on the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) and the Egyptian Stream Party (ESP) as case studies to understand how post-January 2011 political parties approached mainstream politics, and how the revolutionary protest movements developed to further penetrate the public sphere of Egyptian politics. The focal concern of this research is to investigate how these political parties were formed in the aftermath of popular participated uprising, and what characteristics they inherited from a long heritage of informal activism to mainstream politics.