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A Cross-Cultural Study Of Irish And Egyptian Expressions Of Sympathy With Reference To Gender, Anne Abdel Moneim Hassan

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This study investigates the cross-cultural pragmatic differences in realizing the speech act of sympathy. Specifically it examines: (1) the similarities and differences in strategies used for expressing sympathy by both males and females in the Egyptians and Irish groups and (2) the kinds of pragmatic failure expected to occur among the Egyptian male and female EFL learners when expressing sympathy in the target language.

Two types of data were collected: spontaneous and elicited. Spontaneous data were collected by audiotape recording and note taking. Elicited data were collected by a ten-item discourse completion task (DCT). Subjects of the elicited data were …

Hispano-Umayyad Caliphal Iconography, Maria Isabel Varas Cruz

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Contemporary Gulf Poetesses: A Feminist Perspective, Dhabiya Khamis

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Lexical Organization In Trilingual: Investing The Foreign Store Hypothesis, Christine Laliberté

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This study investigated lexical organization in trilingual by attempting to determine a) whether lexical items in the dominant language (L1) are stored separately from those of the L2 and the L3; and b) whether lexical items in the L2 and the L3 are stored together, in a "foreign language store", or separately. As well, potential differences between the lexical organization of bilinguals and trilingual were examined. Previous research has revealed that language dominance and proficiency play a crucial role in intra- and interlanguage interference. Typically, interlingual interference originates from the dominant language (L1) ; however, as proficiency in the non-dominant …

An Illustration Of The Transitional Period In Egypt During 1919-1924: Political Cartoons In Egypt's Revolutionary History, Tonia Rifaey

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This thesis presents the 1919 revolution in Egypt and its effects on the Egyptian political arena as portrayed by the political cartoons during that period. The political cartoons portrayed a visual and tangible approach to a review of nationalism during this era. The cartoons also focused on Egyptian efforts to end British colonialism and imperialism. A review of the cartoons within a six-year period (1918- 1924) yielded one hundred and eighty-two political cartoons. The criteria for the selection of the cartoons was their political nature -pertaining to political actors and politics. The cartoons followed closely the rise and fall of …

Masters Of The Trade: Crafts And Craftspeople In Cairo, 1750-1850, Pascale Ghazaleh

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First Language Maintenance, Shift And Attrition Among Egyptian Immigrants In Houston, Texas, Tawhida Ahmed Askary

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Status And Characteristics Of The Nubian Short Story In Egyptian Literature: Layali Al-Misk Al-Atika By Hadjdjadj Hasan Uddul And Arus Al-Nil By Yahya Mukhtar, Muhammad Helmi

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Isnad In Arabic Literary Works, William J Kopycki

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The Idea Of Land Reform In The Egyptian Parliament, 1942-1952, Eunkyung Lee

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The Saliba Street, Dina Nabil M Ghali

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Historiography In Egypt In The Twentieth Century, Raouf Abbas Hamed

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Tue fundamental determinant of how societies cope with challenges is ultimately found in their human resource base. Nothing is more important than education, in its broadest sense, to the strength of that base. Forming a vital part of any educational system, social science not only helps societies define themselves but also to identify, and indeed generate, possibilities of what they might become. Whether by transmitting or challenging conceptions of the nature of a society's relation to its members or to other societies, or by raising pertinent questions regarding these issues, what is done--or not done--in the social sciences is likely …

Arab Views Of Northern Europeans In Medieval History And Geography, Thabit Abdullah

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This collective volume is the result of the Second Annual Conference on Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean held at the American University in Cairo, 5-7 May, 1996. The contributors, David R. Blanks, John Victor Tolan, Nabil I. Matar, John Rodenbeck, Thabit Abdullah, E.M. Sartain, Omaima Abou-Bakr, and Nadia M. El-Cheik, take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and literature, in medieval their examination of past attitudes, in particular images of the 'Other' in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, in order to trace the origins of modern stereotypes. The essays are divided into three …

An Ambivalent Image: Byzantium Viewed By The Arabs, Nadia M. El-Cheik

Faculty Book Chapters

This collective volume is the result of the Second Annual Conference on Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean held at the American University in Cairo, 5-7 May, 1996. The contributors, David R. Blanks, John Victor Tolan, Nabil I. Matar, John Rodenbeck, Thabit Abdullah, E.M. Sartain, Omaima Abou-Bakr, and Nadia M. El-Cheik, take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and literature, in medieval their examination of past attitudes, in particular images of the 'Other' in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, in order to trace the origins of modern stereotypes. The essays are divided into three …

Seventy-Five Years Of Economic Thought In Egypt, Galal A. Amin

Faculty Book Chapters

Tue fundamental determinant of how societies cope with challenges is ultimately found in their human resource base. Nothing is more important than education, in its broadest sense, to the strength of that base. Forming a vital part of any educational system, social science not only helps societies define themselves but also to identify, and indeed generate, possibilities of what they might become. Whether by transmitting or challenging conceptions of the nature of a society's relation to its members or to other societies, or by raising pertinent questions regarding these issues, what is done--or not done--in the social sciences is likely …

Seventy Years Of Sociology In Egypt, Ahmed Zayed

Faculty Book Chapters

Tue fundamental determinant of how societies cope with challenges is ultimately found in their human resource base. Nothing is more important than education, in its broadest sense, to the strength of that base. Forming a vital part of any educational system, social science not only helps societies define themselves but also to identify, and indeed generate, possibilities of what they might become. Whether by transmitting or challenging conceptions of the nature of a society's relation to its members or to other societies, or by raising pertinent questions regarding these issues, what is done--or not done--in the social sciences is likely …

The 1967 Defeat Impact On The Generation Of The Sixties And Earlier Generations, Shahira Khalil

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Similarities Between Sources Of Syntactic Errors Made By Arab Learners Of "Fusha" And Sources Of Errors Made By Second Language Learners, Nihal Mohamed Talaat

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Relativization In Egyptian Educated Spoken Arabic, Dalia Abou Hagar

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Sudanese Women Speech Variation And Its Role Of Convergence, Samia Mohamed Adnan

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Selected Religious Buildings From The Period Of ʻAbbas Hilmi Ii, 1892-1914, Mohamed Mohamed El Amrousi

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A Study On Ibn Al-Dumaynah's Poetry, Sabry Botros Abd El-Masseh

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Collocations And Vocabulary Teaching, Dala Yassin Abo El Seoud

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Architectural Patronage In The Reign Of Sultan Jaqmaq In Cairo, Shams El-Din Tantawy

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Classical And Colloquial Arabic, Mona Kamel Hassan

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Deixis (IltifāT) In The Qur'āN, Lobna Ismail

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Industrial Monuments In The Holy Land, Adham Mahmoud Fahmy

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The Practical Apologetic Of Muhammad Abduh With A View Toward His Approach To Christianity, Michael F Kuhn

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The Representation Of Migration To The Gulf In Arabic Novels, Noha M Radwan

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Trading Politics And The Politics Of Trade, Peter Thompson

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