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The Gendered Self And The Gendered Other, Nana Aba Kyereba Bentil

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Islamic Design Influences On Spanish Architecture In The Twentieth Century, M Tarek Amin El-Akkad

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Maqrizi And His Khitat: A Verification Of The Section On Dars, Hanan Ahmed Shams El-Din

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The Exoteric Vicegerency (Khilafat Al-Zahir) In The Thought Of Shaykh Muhyi 'L-Din Ibn Al-Arabi, Maha Abdel Megid Maamoun

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The Celestial Element, Loai Omran

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Establishing An Arabesque Center In Gamalia, Walid Adham Salem

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Inscription Programs In Cairene Domestic Architecture (14th-18th Century), Noha Mohamed Khaled Abou-Khatwa

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Bahri Mamluk Wooden Ceilings, Jasmin Wardani

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Is There An Arab State?, Jeneen Hazem Ezzat

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The nature of the Arab state has been one that has perplexed many scholars.

A Comparative Study Of Desert Novels Of IbrāHīM Al-KūNī And ʻAbd Al-RahṃAn MunīF, Hala Mohammed Hassan Hassan El Ganayni

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Living Units In Cairene Houses In The Ottoman Period: Towards A New Understanding Of Cairene Domestic Architecture, Ahmed Maher Hassaballah

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Cairene domestic architecture comprises a variety of housing types, responding to the needs of different socioeconomic classes of society. Of these types, two are studied in detail herein, namely, palaces and mansions of the grandees and middle-class houses. As suggested by Hanna, the latter were divided into separate unequal living units. The study in hand investigates the existence of similar living units in the palaces and mansions'. This is accomplished through analyzing living units in some middle-class houses to determine their structure, types and organization. These characteristics are used to define similar units in palaces and mansions.

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Early Egyptian Bone And Ivory Inlaid Woodwork, 700-1200 A.D., Balsam Abdul-Rahman Saleh

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Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser

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Since Quranic inscriptions dominate the epigraphic decoration of Cairene Islamic religious monuments, the target of this thesis has been to investigate the Quranic inscriptions of some selected religious monuments of each main era of the Islamic history of Cairo: Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman. The questions examined are the following: what was the frequency of utilizing Quranic inscriptions compared to other types of inscriptions? What are the common architectural locations of Quranic quotations compared to other types of inscriptions? Regardless of the form of the script, whether naskhi or kufic, what were the common stylistic visual forms of inscriptions on religious …

Histories Of The Muslim Hero: Medieval And Modern Perceptions Of Al Zaher Baybars, Amina A Elbendary

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The Urban Development Of The Azbakiyya Perimeter, Magdy Albert

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The Qur'an, A Holy Message Delivered, May Kaddah

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Al-IshâRâT Al-IlâHiyya By Abû HayyâN Al-TawhîDî, Maha Mahmoud Zaki Saleh

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Gordes Carpets In Egyptian Collections, Ahmed Mohamed Dabbʻ

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Ali Pasha Mubarak's Philosophy Of Education And Its Relationship To The Emergence Of A Modern Bureaucracy In Egypt, Mariam Ahmad Shouman

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This thesis. entitled'" Ali Pasha Mubarak's Philosophy of Education and Its Relationship to an Emergent Modern Bureaucracy was completed at the American University of Cairo by Mariam Shouman under supervision by Dr. Michael Reimer. The main focus of the work is an attempt to pinpoint ·Ali Mubarak's philosophy of education as presented in his own works. al-Khitat and 'Alam al-Din. These works have been examined and translated in some detail to reveal indications of this important figure's perception of the role education should play in individual lives as well as its importance to the bureaucracy at large. While these writings …

Early Ottoman Architecture In Cairo, Seif Eldin Mamdouh El Rashidi

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Sentence Structure In Egyptian Journalistic Arabic. A Quantitative And Comparative Study In Al Ahram Newspaper From 1937 To 1997, Gehane Hamdy El Hakim

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Developing Arabic Multimedia Computer-Assisted Language Learning Materials For Teaching Listening Skills, Mohd Feham Md Zalib

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The Manzara: Its Form And Function In Fatimid Egypt, Jehan Ismail Reda

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Marble Paving In Mamluk Cairo, MuhạMmad ʻAbd Al-WahhāB

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The Modern Mosque In Egypt: The Mosques Of Mario Rossi For The Awqaf, Ahmed Mohamed Sedky

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The Northern Cemetery Of Cairo, Hani Hamza

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From Crisis To Catastrophe: Epitaph For E.T. (Egyptian Theater), Mahmoud Ahmed El Lozy

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The second of two issues, this volume covers aspects of Egyptian society. Contributors include: Donald Cole, Soraya Altorki, Asef Bayat, Eric Denis, Enid Hill, Ziad Bahaeddin, Malak Rouchdy, Linda Herrera, Jim Napoli, Hussein Amin, Mahmoud al-Lozy, Cynthia Nelson, and Shahnaz Rouse.

Phrasal Verbs In Modern Standard Arabic And Egyptian Colloquial, Amina Ahmed Abdel Alim Mohammed

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The Urban Evolution Of Roda Island (Ca. 21h/641ad-1335h/1917ad), Ahmed Mohamed Sabry

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The Armenian Community In Egypt During World War I, Armin Albert Kredian

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Brief Statement: The socio-economic and communal structures of the Armenians in Egypt during 1914-1918 are examined to lay the ground upon which the responses of the Armenian community in Egypt to the impact of World War l and the Armenian genocide are analyzed. Methodology and procedure: For an understanding of the socio­economical structure of the community, the study is primarily based on the l 911 census of the Apostolic Armenian community in Alexandria and the contemporary articles in Armenian periodicals dealing with the occupational patterns of the Armenians in Egypt. The communal structure as it existed during the years under …