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Beyond Emergency: Charting Pathways To Sustainable Development In Fragile And Conflict-Affected Settings: A Case Study Of Yemen, Sharif Abdurabu Salem Farid Alsahbool Jun 2026

Beyond Emergency: Charting Pathways To Sustainable Development In Fragile And Conflict-Affected Settings: A Case Study Of Yemen, Sharif Abdurabu Salem Farid Alsahbool

Theses and Dissertations

For nearly a decade, Yemen's eastern governorates of Hadramawt, Shabwah, and Al‑Mahrah have been relatively stable, yet the international aid system has kept delivering short‑term humanitarian relief like food baskets and water trucking instead of shifting to sustainable development that could rebuild people's lives, create jobs, fix infrastructure, and strengthen local government. This thesis investigates why this transition has taken so long. Based on 21 interviews with government officials, international NGO staff, and local NGO managers in these three governorates, the study develops a new way of understanding the problem. It introduces three ideas: the 'emergency mentality', which is a …


The Case For The Exclusion Of Exclusion: Intellectual Property, Masculine Legal Reason, And The Ethics Of Care, Ragya Shoukry Jun 2026

The Case For The Exclusion Of Exclusion: Intellectual Property, Masculine Legal Reason, And The Ethics Of Care, Ragya Shoukry

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis argues that current legal ideals of objectivity and neutrality are historically gendered and inseparable from the development of capitalist property relations and imperial expansion. It traces origins that begin with early modern witch hunts and Francis Bacon’s empiricism, where a new “scientific rationality” emerges alongside intensified patriarchal violence. The thesis then examines John Locke’s labour-based justification of property and the figure of the rational individual, showing how this framework legitimizes enclosure, dispossession and colonial appropriation under the guise of improvement and development. Building on this foundation, the analysis turns to moral psychology and how its allegedly universal stage …


Navigating Radical Indeterminacy In The Struggle For A Global Collective Consciousness: The Question Of Eco-Justice And Law Or Universalize The Pluriverse: A Manifesto, More Or Less, Omar Auf Feb 2026

Navigating Radical Indeterminacy In The Struggle For A Global Collective Consciousness: The Question Of Eco-Justice And Law Or Universalize The Pluriverse: A Manifesto, More Or Less, Omar Auf

Theses and Dissertations

The processes of interpretation, communication, and re-interpretation leads to the emergence of an approximated collective consciousness, for which it may be struggled and contested by hegemonic. The dominant forces of this contest, capitalism and nationalism, lead to an interdivided world: one that possesses the tools to empathize with each other but is instead leading people to keep their heads down and focus on surviving their own contexts, perceived as existing within different historical times on the same timeline. This leads to legal and justice systems that fail their claim to universality and/or impartiality. Incorporating an ecological lens to justice within …


Digital Public Service Delivery As An Institutional Outcome: Data Governance And Interoperability In The Egyptian Public Sector, Waad Hegazy Feb 2026

Digital Public Service Delivery As An Institutional Outcome: Data Governance And Interoperability In The Egyptian Public Sector, Waad Hegazy

Theses and Dissertations

Moving beyond technology-centered theories of digital transformation, this thesis examines the institutional and governance factors shaping digital public service delivery in Egypt. It analyzes how governance structures, data governance arrangements, and interoperability frameworks influence the extent to which digital transformation initiatives result in integrated, scalable, and citizen-facing public services. Using a qualitative research design, the study draws on an analysis of relevant policy and program documents and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders involved in digital transformation initiatives in Egypt. The findings indicate that persistent challenges in digital public service delivery are driven less by technological constraints than by fragmented governance …


The Feminization Of Deteriorated Labor Force Participation In Egypt: 1990 – 2024, Mennan Gamal Nour El Din Feb 2025

The Feminization Of Deteriorated Labor Force Participation In Egypt: 1990 – 2024, Mennan Gamal Nour El Din

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explain why female labor force participation deteriorated in quantity and in quality despite the recent rise in female educational attainment levels over the past three decades (1990 – 2024). On the one hand, labor participation declined, whereas on the other hand, female informal employment remains high in Egypt. This thesis dissertation utilizes a qualitative research methodology through both secondary data in the form of descriptive statistics on the phenomenon of female labor force participation as well as primary data in the form of six in-depth expert interviews with experts in the fields of …


Economic Inequality And Civil War In Yugoslavia: An Economic Historiography Of Civil War, Farah Swellam Jan 2025

Economic Inequality And Civil War In Yugoslavia: An Economic Historiography Of Civil War, Farah Swellam

The Undergraduate Research Journal

The reasons for the emergence of ethnic violence are a much-debated and controversial topic. It remains relevant in a world with increasingly heterogeneous nation-states. This article investigates the causes of ethnic violence in Yugoslavia by analyzing the history of the republic from its post-WWII formation to the beginning of its breakup in 1991. The paper uses a qualitative examination of the causes and consequences of economic and political policies to understand the mechanisms by which ethnic heterogeneity is transmitted into violence. It argues that economic inequality is a necessary underlying variable to explain the outbreak of ethnic violence and civil …


Women On Boards Annual Monitoring Report 2024, Center For Entrepreneurship And Innovation Jan 2025

Women On Boards Annual Monitoring Report 2024, Center For Entrepreneurship And Innovation

Faculty Books

The AUC Egypt women on boards monitoring report is issued annually to track and monitor the presence and representation of women on boards towards meeting the goal of having 30% women on boards by 2030. The importance of improving representation of women on boards stems from the fact that it is one of the good governance pillars, in addition to the positive impact on firm performance and profitability. The National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030 has accordingly promoted for increasing the leadership roles of women and holding key positions in public institutions and companies, setting the target …


Casar Public Lecture: Mapping The Journeys Of Enslaved People From Zanzibar To The Gulf, The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar Oct 2023

Casar Public Lecture: Mapping The Journeys Of Enslaved People From Zanzibar To The Gulf, The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar

Performances, Events, and Presentations

Part of the CASAR October lecture series and in partnership with AUC’s history department, this event featured guest scholar John Thabiti Willis, an associate professor of history at Clarendon College in Northfield Minnesota. For the last ten years Thabiti has dedicated himself to the study of African contributions to the history and heritage of pearling in the Gulf. In this event, AUC had the honor of listening to how Thabiti uses geographical information systems (GIS) to organize primary evidence gathered from manumission statements to analyze enslaved peoples journeys from Zanzibar to British political agents in Bahrain, Muscat, and Sharjah between …


International Financial Assistance And Inequality In Emerging Markets: Colombia, Egypt And Turkey, Sara Farag Apr 2022

International Financial Assistance And Inequality In Emerging Markets: Colombia, Egypt And Turkey, Sara Farag

Theses and Dissertations

This research study investigates the effects of the three main pillars of structural adjustment policies imbedded in IFI funding facilities on income inequality in three specific cases; Colombia, Egypt and Turkey to uncover if income inequality present in those emerging markets is attributed to; the policy reforms conditionality or to pre-existent country features. The three main pillars of policy conditions discussed in this thesis are 1. Government Expenditure Reforms, 2. External Sector Reforms, and 3. Financial Sector Reforms. My hypothesis is that, although pre-existent country features may have had an impact on the levels of inequality a populace faces, the …


The Shirt Of Nessus: International Debt As A Tool Of Hegemonic Control, Omar Hamed Ghannam Mar 2022

The Shirt Of Nessus: International Debt As A Tool Of Hegemonic Control, Omar Hamed Ghannam

Theses and Dissertations

International debt has been a fixture of the global economy and state financing for centuries. The economic logic of accruing international debt and its management is rarely questioned in the literature, even as sovereign debt crises abound. These crises offer a point of examination, re-assessment, and negotiations concerning allocating the burdens. This paper aims to study these debt crises to interrogate the issue of international debt, the depoliticized economic mantras that govern it, their validity, sincerity, and the political and social implications on the indebted polity. This is done by looking at the origins of debt crises, and examining how …


Is Egypt On A Sustainable Path Of Debt Repayment: Evidence From Imf Framework And Fiscal Reaction Function, Maha Rashied Jun 2021

Is Egypt On A Sustainable Path Of Debt Repayment: Evidence From Imf Framework And Fiscal Reaction Function, Maha Rashied

Theses and Dissertations

Fiscal policy is the starting point for an economy to achieve solid economic and social objectives through macroeconomic stability. Risks associated with excessive borrowing and the required fiscal adjustments are threatening especially to developing countries whose debt to GDP ratios are on the rise. Those countries’ fiscal policies’ sustainability is questioned; hence this research aims at testing for Egypt public debt sustainability and assessing the method capitalized on by the Egyptian authorities; the IMF Approach. By comparing the IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis Approach to the fiscal reaction function with ARDL and VAR as estimation methods, the results of both methods …


The Effect Of National Leaders’ Profiles On Gdp Per Capita, Maha Mostafa Gaber Jan 2021

The Effect Of National Leaders’ Profiles On Gdp Per Capita, Maha Mostafa Gaber

Theses and Dissertations

A national leader is the policy maker in a country, whose economical decisions hold the power to make a nation either prosper or collapse. Therefore, it becomes crucial to understand the official who enact these decisions. A unique dataset of over 326 world leaders from 51 countries between the period 1972 to 2018 was constructed, building on leader Experience and Attribute Descriptions Database, in order to study the differences in leaders’ characteristics and determine the most important attributes which significantly affect level of GDP per capita. This paper studies the effect of government leaders’ profiles on GDP per capita by …


Economics Of Semiconductor Industry In Taiwan And South Korea, Tamer Mohamed Safwat El-Zayat Apr 2006

Economics Of Semiconductor Industry In Taiwan And South Korea, Tamer Mohamed Safwat El-Zayat

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Political Economy Of Foreign Policy Change: Understanding The Change In The Mozambican Foreign Policy During The 80s, Sergio Mateus Gomes Feb 2006

Political Economy Of Foreign Policy Change: Understanding The Change In The Mozambican Foreign Policy During The 80s, Sergio Mateus Gomes

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This study aims to understand the process of foreign policy change that occurred m Mozambique during the mid 80s. Most of the few studies of foreign policy devoted to developing countries have based their explanation of developing countries foreign policy on static analysis and the primacy of the psychological approach. However, the case of Mozambique suggests us that decision for foreign policy change was conditioned by a combination of domestic and external factors. In fact, although the leader was insulated vis-a-vis the society, the external and domestic environments made him to take decisions that were contrary to his basic views …


The Distributional Effects Of Fiscal And Trade Reform In Egypt, Mona Aboul-Kheir Jul 1993

The Distributional Effects Of Fiscal And Trade Reform In Egypt, Mona Aboul-Kheir

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Some Factors Affecting Crude Oil Production In Egypt, Dalia Mohamed Abou Senna Jun 1993

Some Factors Affecting Crude Oil Production In Egypt, Dalia Mohamed Abou Senna

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Foreign Capital Inflows On Savings In Egypt, Khaled Abdel Fattah Jun 1993

The Impact Of Foreign Capital Inflows On Savings In Egypt, Khaled Abdel Fattah

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Private Sector Bureaucratic Behavior In Egypt: A Case Study Of The American University In Cairo, Nathaniel Gordon Knox Jun 1993

Private Sector Bureaucratic Behavior In Egypt: A Case Study Of The American University In Cairo, Nathaniel Gordon Knox

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Soldiers And Social Revolution In Ethiopia, Merera Gudina. Jun 1992

Soldiers And Social Revolution In Ethiopia, Merera Gudina.

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Japan's Policy Toward The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Mohamed Naguib Fakhry May 1992

Japan's Policy Toward The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Mohamed Naguib Fakhry

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The International Economic Correlates Of Hegemony, Hisham Nehad Seif-Eldin May 1992

The International Economic Correlates Of Hegemony, Hisham Nehad Seif-Eldin

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Economics Of The Refining Industry In Kuwait, Khalil Ibrahim Ahmad Dec 1991

The Economics Of The Refining Industry In Kuwait, Khalil Ibrahim Ahmad

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Hidden Dimensions Of The Historical Settlement In Southwestern Africa (December 1988), Jehan Tharwat Rashed Sep 1991

The Hidden Dimensions Of The Historical Settlement In Southwestern Africa (December 1988), Jehan Tharwat Rashed

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Economic Activities Of The Egyptian Military, 1970-1989, Heidi Mccormack Dec 1990

The Economic Activities Of The Egyptian Military, 1970-1989, Heidi Mccormack

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Patron And Client, Mona Omran El Shafei May 1990

Patron And Client, Mona Omran El Shafei

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Tariff Policy And Protection To Industry In Egypt, 1961-1986, Mohamed Imam Imam Salem May 1989

Tariff Policy And Protection To Industry In Egypt, 1961-1986, Mohamed Imam Imam Salem

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Political Economy Of Revolutionary Iran, Mihssen Kadhim Apr 1983

The Political Economy Of Revolutionary Iran, Mihssen Kadhim

Faculty Books

[abstract not provided]


Notes On The Political Economy Of Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Ruling Class And Its Socio-Economic Impact, Abdel Aziz Ezz El Arab Jan 1979

Notes On The Political Economy Of Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Ruling Class And Its Socio-Economic Impact, Abdel Aziz Ezz El Arab

Faculty Book Chapters

Political Economy may be seen as an attempt to cultivate a new intellectual and practical direction in examining the issues and prob­lems of the Middle East. The authors of this volume are concerned as to how the social -relations of historically specific structures in the Middle fast originate, operate and change. It is otvious that before facts are gatheed a theoretical and epistemological stance must be taken so as to assemble and analyze those particular facts relevant to speciftc issues and problems. The first two articles of this volume whi-ch are presented by Enid Hill and H.M. Thompson are concerned …


The Open Door Economic Policy In Egypt: A Search For Meaning, Interpretation And Implication, Gouda Abdel Khalek Jan 1979

The Open Door Economic Policy In Egypt: A Search For Meaning, Interpretation And Implication, Gouda Abdel Khalek

Faculty Book Chapters

Political Economy may be seen as an attempt to cultivate a new intellectual and practical direction in examining the issues and prob­lems of the Middle East. The authors of this volume are concerned as to how the social -relations of historically specific structures in the Middle fast originate, operate and change. It is otvious that before facts are gatheed a theoretical and epistemological stance must be taken so as to assemble and analyze those particular facts relevant to speciftc issues and problems. The first two articles of this volume whi-ch are presented by Enid Hill and H.M. Thompson are concerned …


Political Economy As Historical Materialism: Nomenclature: 'A Rose Is A Rose...', Herbert B. Thompson Jan 1979

Political Economy As Historical Materialism: Nomenclature: 'A Rose Is A Rose...', Herbert B. Thompson

Faculty Book Chapters

Political Economy may be seen as an attempt to cultivate a new intellectual and practical direction in examining the issues and prob­lems of the Middle East. The authors of this volume are concerned as to how the social -relations of historically specific structures in the Middle fast originate, operate and change. It is otvious that before facts are gatheed a theoretical and epistemological stance must be taken so as to assemble and analyze those particular facts relevant to speciftc issues and problems. The first two articles of this volume whi-ch are presented by Enid Hill and H.M. Thompson are concerned …