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Egyptian-American Relations Under Obama’S Presidency: A Defensive Realist Analysis, Karim Abdoun
Egyptian-American Relations Under Obama’S Presidency: A Defensive Realist Analysis, Karim Abdoun
Theses and Dissertations
For the past few decades, Egyptian-American relations had been established on the cornerstone that is the Camp David Accords. It codified a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, the first Arab country to recognize Israel’s existence officially. This Egyptian-American relationship had started a long time after Nasser had broken ties with the Americans and backed the Soviet Union. Since then, all Egyptian Presidents since Sadat’s peace negotiations with Israel had maintained a steady relationship with the United States. Even when comparing two American Presidents from different political factions of the United States political arena, Republican George Bush and Democrat Barack …
Need For Cognition And Rumour Theory In Post-Revolutionary Egypt, Lina Ashour
Need For Cognition And Rumour Theory In Post-Revolutionary Egypt, Lina Ashour
Theses and Dissertations
Egyptian society went through a number of significant changes between 2011 and 2015 as a result of the January 25 Revolution. Beyond the political implications, there have also been shifts in the social and psychological motivations behind the way people consume media and share information. This included a sharp increase in the public’s interests in political affairs after spending years of being generally apathetic. This paper examines whether this could be described as an increase in Need for Cognition on a social level and whether this has affected the spread of rumours in Egyptian society. Through in-depth interviews with a …
A Pill, A Cup Of Tea, And A Cigarette: Male Body In Egypt At The Age Of Viagra, Youssef Ramez Boktor
A Pill, A Cup Of Tea, And A Cigarette: Male Body In Egypt At The Age Of Viagra, Youssef Ramez Boktor
Theses and Dissertations
From disciplined self to ‘Viagra-self’ is a transition that men experience in the ‘age of Viagra’. My field work looks at how chemically enhanced sexual performance has been normalized in a specific way that signifies the deliberate control over human’s sexual performance. How the sexual relationship - in a specific socio-cultural context - becomes the most available path to seek happiness ‘inbesat’, in low priced form. The ‘Viagra-self’ learns how to invest in parts of the body in order to perform, to experience how the chemically enhanced body can proclaims control and time (sexual) performance. The Viagra-self, in the era …
A Mnemonic Topology Of The Eighteen Days In Egypt (25th January-11th February 2011), Sara Verderi
A Mnemonic Topology Of The Eighteen Days In Egypt (25th January-11th February 2011), Sara Verderi
Theses and Dissertations
The aftermath of the eighteen days in Egypt constitutes a moment in which it is possible to study the entanglement between evolving political imaginations, techniques of governability and capital processes of restructuring. Focusing on the stories of activists who took part in the 25th January uprising, this thesis examines the conflicting representations thriving to establish a mnemonic "truth" about a moment of political transformation. In using memory as a methodological lens, this thesis proposes to consider the operational aspect of memory, thinking about memory as a usable knowledge in the present. This approach to memory re-discusses its use as category …
The Association Between Health Financing And Maternal And Child Health In Middle East And North Africa Countries, Ahmed Tammam Abdelgawad
The Association Between Health Financing And Maternal And Child Health In Middle East And North Africa Countries, Ahmed Tammam Abdelgawad
Theses and Dissertations
Improving maternal and child health outcomes for women and children is a critical step to achieve the MDGs; however it requires sufficient funding to implement proven quality interventions. The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between the different health care financing options cross the Middle East and North Africa “MENA" countries and the maternal and child health outcomes. Our main argument is that: Can different health care financing strategies affect Maternal, Neonatal and Child health? If yes, How?. This study is based on a cross sectional analysis of twenty one states from MENA region between 2009 and …
Managing Multi-Cultural Engineering Teams In Egypt, Rania Joseph Busada
Managing Multi-Cultural Engineering Teams In Egypt, Rania Joseph Busada
Theses and Dissertations
The exercise of project management altered drastically over the past two decades and is currently driven by the growing demand of standardizing the industry’s practice and the emerging globalization of the industry. According to the literature review, one of the obstacles facing the development of the engineering teams in both developed and developing countries is the poor performances of multi-located and multi-cultural teams. The literature review reflects on the influences of the culture complexity and social diversity on the multi-cultural team’s performances. There have been a number of empirical studies that focus on the performances of the effectiveness of these …
Community Journalism And Civic Engagement In Egypt: The Case Study Of Sahafet Welad El-Balad Project, Rasha Saad Tawfik
Community Journalism And Civic Engagement In Egypt: The Case Study Of Sahafet Welad El-Balad Project, Rasha Saad Tawfik
Theses and Dissertations
While Egypt enjoyed a heritage of local community press, genuine professional endeavors were nearly non-existent till recently. However, with Egypt undergoing a transitional phase, the emergence of community journalism became central to facilitate the shift into a more democratic state. Hence, this study explores the relation between community journalism and civic engagement in Egypt through examining a case study, El-Fayoumeya newspaper published as part of Sahafet Welad El-Balad media project. The study also discusses the state of community journalism in Egypt and the government's media policies related to the issue. This includes an assessment of the state of community journalism …