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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 …


The Extent To Which The Provision Of Water And Sanitation Services Affect The Individual’S Decision To Migrate: The Case Of Egypt, Sara Mohamed Soliman Jun 2021

The Extent To Which The Provision Of Water And Sanitation Services Affect The Individual’S Decision To Migrate: The Case Of Egypt, Sara Mohamed Soliman

Theses and Dissertations

Determinants of migration, although researched copiously shed little light on the importance of access to sustainable, basic water and sanitation utilities on an individual’s decision to migrate. This research reveals that individuals originating from rural Upper Egypt, rural and urban Lower Egypt, and rural and urban Alexandria and Suez Canal regions are more likely to migrate relative to those from the urban Greater Cairo region. Access to water has been deemed as insignificant while access to sanitation is a significant factor in determining migration patterns as do macro- economic differences in origin governorates, gender, educational background before migration, and employment …


Regional Wage Inequality In Egypt: Relationships To Micro And Macro Indicators, Noha Mostafa Jun 2021

Regional Wage Inequality In Egypt: Relationships To Micro And Macro Indicators, Noha Mostafa

Theses and Dissertations

Addressing regional disparities in Egypt is of paramount importance for the country’s success in achieving the pillars of its 2030 strategy, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper focuses on examining regional disparities in wages, not only in relation to the micro level characteristics of workers such as their level of educational attainment and acquired experience, but also with regard to the overall economic conditions of the region where they work. The paper compiled a novel dataset of Egypt’s governorates macroeconomic indicators that includes the shares of public investment funds, poverty and unemployment rates and analyzed the …


Labor Market, Urban Poverty And Propoor Employment Policies, Heba Nassar, Heba El-Laithy Nov 2020

Labor Market, Urban Poverty And Propoor Employment Policies, Heba Nassar, Heba El-Laithy

Faculty Journal Articles

A complicated relationship exists between labor market mechanisms and poverty. Poverty might arise from labor market mechanisms, as much as from other more obvious factors such as overall living standards, low levels of production and productivity as well as socioeconomic conditions that lead to inequalities in the labor market. This paper tries to study the relationship between urban poverty and the labor market by constructing a poverty index using the data of the Survey" Socioeconomic conditions of Work in Greater Cairo". Factor analysis was used to combine seventeen socio-economic variables in one poverty index. The index was used to study …


Much Ado About The Egyptian Pound: Exchange Rate Misalignment And The Path Towards Equilibrium, Diaa Mohamed Ahmed Noureldin Aug 2018

Much Ado About The Egyptian Pound: Exchange Rate Misalignment And The Path Towards Equilibrium, Diaa Mohamed Ahmed Noureldin

Faculty Journal Articles

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Jordan's Peace Dividend, Amal Abdel Fattah Kandeel May 1998

Jordan's Peace Dividend, Amal Abdel Fattah Kandeel

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Challenge Of Human Development In Arab Countries, Nader Fergany Jan 1998

The Challenge Of Human Development In Arab Countries, Nader Fergany

Faculty Book Chapters

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Introduction (The Middle East And Development In A Changing World), Donald Heisel Jan 1998

Introduction (The Middle East And Development In A Changing World), Donald Heisel

Faculty Book Chapters

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Oil Challenges And Prospects, Paul Sullivan Jan 1998

Oil Challenges And Prospects, Paul Sullivan

Faculty Book Chapters

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Private Capital Flow In The Development Of The Arab Countries, Mohamed A. El-Erian, Shahpassand Sheybani Jan 1998

Private Capital Flow In The Development Of The Arab Countries, Mohamed A. El-Erian, Shahpassand Sheybani

Faculty Book Chapters

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Does Human Capital Cause Economic Growth In Egypt?, Iman Mohamed Fouad Mohamed Nov 1997

Does Human Capital Cause Economic Growth In Egypt?, Iman Mohamed Fouad Mohamed

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


State And Industrial Capitalists In Egypt, SāMir SulaymāN May 1997

State And Industrial Capitalists In Egypt, SāMir SulaymāN

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.


The Controlling Role Of Central Bank Of Jordan On Money Supply, Khaled Wassef Al- Wazani Sep 1990

The Controlling Role Of Central Bank Of Jordan On Money Supply, Khaled Wassef Al- Wazani

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Economic Evaluation Of Recreational Tourism In Egypt With Special Emphasis In Hurghada City, Hamsa El Sayed El Said Jan 1990

Economic Evaluation Of Recreational Tourism In Egypt With Special Emphasis In Hurghada City, Hamsa El Sayed El Said

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Estimates Of Some Aspects Of Personal Wealth Distribution In Egypt, Heba Ezzeldin Helmy Mar 1987

Estimates Of Some Aspects Of Personal Wealth Distribution In Egypt, Heba Ezzeldin Helmy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Hidden Economy In Egypt: A Social Accounting Matrix Approach, Jihan Kamel Tawfik Diab Jul 1983

The Hidden Economy In Egypt: A Social Accounting Matrix Approach, Jihan Kamel Tawfik Diab

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Impact Ot The Mass Media And Other Kinds Of Communication On American Tourism In Egypt, Sonia A Guirguis Jan 1982

Impact Ot The Mass Media And Other Kinds Of Communication On American Tourism In Egypt, Sonia A Guirguis

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The External Public Debt Problem Of The Developing Countries With Particular Reference To The Debt Problem Of Egypt, Nihal Mohamed Nour El Din Korra Jan 1981

The External Public Debt Problem Of The Developing Countries With Particular Reference To The Debt Problem Of Egypt, Nihal Mohamed Nour El Din Korra

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Suez Canal, Its Role In World Sea Borne Trade And Its Effects On Th Egyptian Economy With Particular Reference To The Period After Nationalization, 1956-1980, Noha Mohammed Nour El Din Korra Jan 1981

The Suez Canal, Its Role In World Sea Borne Trade And Its Effects On Th Egyptian Economy With Particular Reference To The Period After Nationalization, 1956-1980, Noha Mohammed Nour El Din Korra

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Export Problems Of A Less Developed Country, Hafez M H Ghanem Jun 1980

The Export Problems Of A Less Developed Country, Hafez M H Ghanem

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Economic Efficiency In Public Sector Enterprises, Ahmed M Galal May 1980

Economic Efficiency In Public Sector Enterprises, Ahmed M Galal

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Upper Economic Class In Egypt, Nermine Mokhtar May 1980

The Upper Economic Class In Egypt, Nermine Mokhtar

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Housing Problem In Egypt, Nivine Mostafa Oraby Jan 1980

The Housing Problem In Egypt, Nivine Mostafa Oraby

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Egypt's Import And Export Demand Functions: An Econometric Model, Hussein A Kamel Fahmy May 1979

Egypt's Import And Export Demand Functions: An Econometric Model, Hussein A Kamel Fahmy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Marketing Of Computers In The U.A.R., Ahmed Moustafa El Zorkani Jan 1971

Marketing Of Computers In The U.A.R., Ahmed Moustafa El Zorkani

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.