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Young Women Smoking Shisha In Greater Cairo: A Social Study, Shahinaz M Khalil
Young Women Smoking Shisha In Greater Cairo: A Social Study, Shahinaz M Khalil
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There is a lack of research concerning the widespread phenomenon of young women smoking shisha, which is becoming a widespread phenomenon within Egyptian society. This research was conducted in order to assess the practices of young women concerning their smoking of the shisha in order to understand such a relatively new phenomenon. In order to understand this phenomenon, empirical questions were developed concerning the characteristics of young women smoking shisha, when and why they started, cost and frequency of smoking, their knowledge about the health hazards of smoking, the future of their smoking, their perception of young women smokers, and …
Wife Battering In Contemporary Cairo: An Exploratory Study In Rights And Perceptions, Iman Mohamed Eissa
Wife Battering In Contemporary Cairo: An Exploratory Study In Rights And Perceptions, Iman Mohamed Eissa
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The universal phenomenon of wife battering has calamitous consequences on the battered woman, usurping her security, human agency and autonomy, thus relegating her to a secondary status citizen, incapable of contributing to the community's development. Research on wife battering in Egypt is very limited. The goal of this thesis is to explore battered women's lives in contemporary Cairo, focusing on battered wives' perceptions of abuse in relation to discrimination against women in Egypt and women's citizenship rights within the Egyptian state. This study was conducted using a qualitative research methodology. Ten in depth, semi-structured interviews were carried out with battered …
Living With Family And Foreigners: Egypt Female Tourist Guides' Narratives On Their Family, Work, And Identity, Junko Toriyama
Living With Family And Foreigners: Egypt Female Tourist Guides' Narratives On Their Family, Work, And Identity, Junko Toriyama
Archived Theses and Dissertations
This is an ethnographic research project on Egyptian female tourist guides. Based on over forty semi-structured interviews, the study attempted to gain an insight into Egyptian female tourist guide's everyday life, especially focusing on her gender relations from two different angles; discourses and practices. Tourist guiding in Egypt is a relatively new occupation, as it was created to serve the demands of a growing international tourism industry. In one respect, it is an occupation to buff er two different cultures. The occupation offers a gender neutral criteria and gender neutral responsibility, and many women as well as men are working …