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Mwanika, Eva N. "Ancient Egyptian Identity." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1090531381.
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Belcher, El-Nahhas Susan Margaret. "Egyptian women (in Cairo), struggles for identity and citizenship." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0007/NQ39503.pdf.
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Moussa, Hanan Ezzat. "Social media influencers and the online identity of Egyptian youth." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669811.
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En aquesta tesi, m'he proposat investigar la relació entre els anomenats influencers en xarxes socials i la identitat de la joventut egípcia en la xarxa. Egipte és el context d'aquest estudi: un país de caràcter tradicional, patriarcal i profundament religiós. Dels seus joves s'espera que portin un canvi a la societat, però, al mateix temps, s'enfronten a múltiples desafiaments quotidians i a dificultats en l'àmbit de la identitat. En aquest estudi s'examina com, en un país en desenvolupament de cultura no occidental, els processos de construcció identitària dels influencers en xarxes socials i dels seus seguidors i seguidores s'interconnecten a través de les seves autopresentacions i interaccions en línia.
He desenvolupat una metodologia qualitativa d'entrevistes en profunditat amb nou influencers i divuit dels seus seguidors i seguidores. Les entrevistes han generat una gran quantitat d'informació, noves percepcions i perspectives tant dels primers com dels segons. S'han trobat així mostres evidents que els influencers en xarxes socials tenen un paper indirecte en la construcció de la identitat digital dels joves en inspirar als seus seguidors i seguidores perquè aquests canviïn les seves actituds i comportaments, la qual cosa acaba reflectint-se en la seva identitat en la xarxa i en la seva forma d’autopresentar-se en línia.En esta tesis, me he propuesto investigar la relación entre los llamados influencers en redes sociales y la identidad de la juventud egipcia en la red. Egipto es el contexto de este estudio: un país de carácter tradicional, patriarcal y profundamente religioso. De sus jóvenes se espera que traigan un cambio a la sociedad, pero, al mismo tiempo, se enfrentan a múltiples desafíos cotidianos y a dificultades en el ámbito de la identidad. En este estudio se examina cómo, en un país en desarrollo de cultura no occidental, los procesos de construcción identitaria de los influencers en redes sociales y de sus seguidores y seguidoras se interconectan a través de sus autopresentaciones e interacciones en línea. Se recurre para ello a una metodología cualitativa de entrevistas en profundidad con nueve influencers y dieciocho de sus seguidores y seguidoras. Las entrevistas han generado una gran cantidad de información, nuevas percepciones y perspectivas tanto de los primeros como de los segundos. Se han hallado así muestras evidentes de que los influencers en redes sociales tienen un papel indirecto en la construcción de la identidad digital de los jóvenes al inspirar a sus seguidores y seguidoras para que estos cambien sus actitudes y comportamientos, lo que acaba reflejándose en su identidad en la red y en su forma de autopresentarse en línea.
This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship between social media influencers and the online identity of Egyptian youth. The context of this study is Egypt, a country of traditional, patriarchal and keenly religious nature. Its youth, while being expected to bring about change in the society, face many challenges on a day-to-day level and struggle with their identity. The study explores the way in which social media influencers’ and fans’ processes of identity construction are connected through their online performances and interactions in a non-Western developing culture. The study employs a qualitative methodology through in-depth interviews with nine influencers and eighteen of their fans. The interviews generate a wealth of information, insights and perspectives from both parties. The study found that there is evidence that social media influencers play an indirect role in the construction of the online identity of youth through inspiring their fans to change their attitudes and behaviours which ultimately reflects on their online identity and self-presentation.
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Bennett, Sophie. "Gender and identity in the modern Egyptian short story (1954-1992)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281942.
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Fecteau, André. "An Identity and an Uprising: The Politicization of Egyptian Canadians in Ottawa." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33391.
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Historically, political mobilization within the Egyptian Canadian community in Ottawa for homeland politics has been minimal. Yet, since 2011, its members have taken part in a wide range of activities with the hope that they could contribute to the Egyptian uprising and shape the new political environment that arose from it. What compelled them to do so, and why only since 2011? Rooted in both the literatures on diaspora and transnationalism, this thesis argues that there were two simultaneous processes behind their mobilization. First, their sense of belonging to Egypt led some individuals within the Ottawa community to give a new political aspect and meaning to their Egyptian identity, and second, a series of events linked to the Egyptian uprising acted as catalysts to turn these identity-related feelings into action, which subsequently created new rifts within the community.
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Kim, Keunjoo. "Theology and identity of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora in Septuagint of Isaiah." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3a0507b0-32ad-419d-8a94-84cd2b76e856.
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The Old Greek version of the Book of Isaiah (hereafter LXX-Is) should be studied not only as a translation but also as an interpretation reflecting the theology of the translator or translator’s community in Egypt. ‘Free’ translation in LXX-Is usually appears not to originate from any misunderstanding of the probable Hebrew Vorlage or from a different Vorlage, but deliberately and consciously. Also it is important that these Greek renderings should be dealt with in a broader context, not merely verse by verse; because the Septuagint seems to have been regarded as a religious text in itself, circulating among Jews in Egypt. The most conspicuous theme in Septuagint Isaiah is a bold declaration concerning their identity. According to this, the Jewish diaspora in Egypt is the true remnant, and their residence in Egypt should be regarded as due to God’s initiative, thus “Eisodos” instead of “Exodus” is emphasized. Such ideas may be understood as displaying an apologetic concern of the Jewish diaspora to defend their continued residence in Egypt, whereas the Bible states firmly that Jews are not to go down there. Judgments against Egypt appear more strongly than MT, and this is another expression of their identity. LXX-Is supplies a bold translation in 19:18: a temple in Egypt, called the ‘city of righteousness’. The writings of Josephus testify to the existence of the Temple of Onias in Heliopolis under the reign of Ptolemy Philometor who apparently showed great favour towards the Jews. The temple’s significance should be considered as more than a temporary shrine for local Jewish mercenaries. Rather, it aimed to be a new Jerusalem under a lawful Zadokite priest. In addition to this, LXX-Is shares some interesting and distinctive ideas with Hellenistic Jewish literature, including views on priests and sacrifice, and an attitude towards foreign kings shared by Hellenistic Jewish literature of the period. To conclude, through comparing with MT and investigating LXX-Is as it stands, this work shows that LXX-Is is not just a translation but a Hellenistic Jewish document reflecting a particular theology of at least some Jews in Egypt. LXX-Is is shown to have its place within Jewish Hellenistic literature.
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Abdelwahed, Youssri Ezzat Hussein. "Egyptian cultural identity in the architecture of Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 325)." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5923/.
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This thesis explores the complexity and fluidity of Egyptian cultural identity in architectural form in Roman Egypt. It covers the period from the Roman conquest in 30 BC to the official recognition of Christianity in AD 325. The thesis focuses on the relationship between architectural form and layers of identity assertion. Special consideration is given to the issue of continuities and changes in Egyptian cultural traditions. Through explorations of arrangement and use of urban space and public buildings, Chapter I addresses the diversity of architecture as evidence for the complexity and permeability of cultural markers of identity, with special focus on the use of temples as centres of local identity. Being a self-evident symbol of traditional temples, Chapter II suggests that the pylon offers a good example of the complexity of identity and the dynamic nature of cultural traditions in the Roman period. Although the pylon appears on the Palestrina mosaic and classical literature on Egypt as a cliché of ancient Egyptian culture, it was not necessarily a marker of those legally defined as Egyptians. The third chapter focuses on different forms of rituals activities performed within or around the domestic space as evidence for the multiplicity of identity, the complexity of Romano-Egyptian society, and the shared cultural heritage of house occupants. Chapter IV discusses iconography in Roman-period tombs as an expression of the fluidity of cultural traits and as evidence for the biculturalism of the patrons. The final chapter deals with the correlation between architectural ornament and Egyptian cultural identity. It focuses on the torus moulding, cavetto cornice, and Egyptian composite capitals with its five-tiered band and abacus both as a reflection of the dynamic nature identity and as evidence for the hybridization of architectural ornament. In the conclusion, I summarize my work and draw out its implications, suggesting that identity was a multi-layered and dynamic phenomenon. The complexity and multiplicity nature of identity left its impact on architecture in Roman Egypt, where there was a close and extremely complex relationship between architectural form and different perceptions of identity.
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Habib, Maha Fawzi Said. "Egyptian cultural critique, thought and literature : Muslim identities and the predicament of modernity." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4473.
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Islam has, throughout its history, played a pivotal role in the lives of its adherents. Islam’s significance for its adherents stems from and is informed by it as a doctrine, a system of discipline and ritual, and a system of social ethics and practices. Throughout Islamic history, Islam has undergone significant reformation efforts as was socially and culturally perceived to be necessary from within its community. However, with the advent of colonialism, the introduction of the concept of the nation-state, and the ushering of the age of modernity, the form and structure of such reformation was much informed by the relationship of Islam and its adherents to the ‘other’ (the West) and its knowledge systems. Islam has since been confronted with the question of its own validity, from inside and outside the community of adherents. The struggle with the place of religion, the place of the sacred, has played out throughout the history of Islam within Egypt, at times expanding, at others withdrawing, as it dealt with political, social and cultural forces. This presented and presents its adherents with a dilemma of identity: a constant shifting, manipulating, rejecting, and reforming of religious symbols and meaning and further knowledge systems within Islam – an attempt to deal with the state of (post)coloniality, and the project of modernity. It is my contention that one can map the sacred within Egyptian writing: one that is associated with locations, with time, with human interactions, with social, cultural, historical and religious significance. Mapping such sacred spaces within (post)modern Egyptian writing presents deep insights into the struggle for individualism and representation. Egyptian writing is an expression of cultural contestation, and the struggle for self-definition, mirroring one that is pre-existing in Egyptian society. This is evidence of: a) social and cultural self-awareness; b) an engagement with and a response to ‘other’ narratives; c) an attempt to search for an ‘authentic’ self-sufficient discourse; and, d) an attempt to conjure up viable options for sustainability. This has not always led to self-certainty. In fact, it has led to epistemological uncertainty, ontological anxiety, and a threatened self-identity, to which Egyptian Muslims respond in a myriad of voices through these texts/narratives – tackling existential issues.
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Riggs, Christina. "Art and identity in the Egyptian funerary tradition, c. 100 BC to AD 300." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396072.
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Mitchell, Jane Elizabeth. "Representation of change and gender identity : a study of women in Egyptian cinema 1959-1998." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424953.
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Kitchen, James. "Morale and the role of military identity in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force : the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916-1918." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540121.
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Van, den Hoven Carina. "The coronation ritual of the falcon at Edfu : tradition and innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP005.
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Cette thèse de doctorat a pour objectif d’étudier le rôle et la fonction de la tradition et des innovations dans la création de nouveaux textes rituels dans l’Égypte ptolémaïque. L’étude est concentrée sur une analyse approfondie de l’organisation structurelle et de la composition rituelle d’un des rituels les plus élaborés et les plus complexes que nous connaissons dans l’Égypte ptolémaïque: le rituel du couronnement du faucon sacré à Edfou, représenté sur le mur d’enceinte du temple. Les sources disponibles suggèrent que ce rituel est une nouvelle composition de l’époque ptolémaïque dans laquelle des traditions sont associées à des traits nouveaux, ce qui ouvre la possibilité d’une analyse sur le rôle et la fonction de la tradition dans ce rituel, sur l’étendue de l’originalité de la composition, et sur les processus de composition et d’édition qui ont abouti à la création de ce nouveau rituel. L’analyse de l’organisation structurelle du rituel a montré que l’ordre des scènes rituelles sur la paroi ne correspond pas nécessairement à celui dans lequel les actes rituels étaient exécutés dans la réalité et que rituel n’était pas nécessairement effectué là où il se trouvait représenté. Ces conclusions ont débouché sur une nouvelle reconstruction de la séquence rituelle du couronnement du faucon sur la base des inscriptions hiéroglyphiques. De plus, en s’appuyant sur une analyse approfondie des sources textuelles, iconographiques, lexicographiques et archéologiques, une nouvelle identification des lieux où se déroulait le rituel dans le domaine du temple d’Edfou a été proposéeThis research project investigates the role and function of tradition in the composition of new ritual texts in Ptolemaic Egypt on the basis of an in-depth analysis of the structural organisation and ritual composition of one the most elaborate and complex temple rituals known from Ptolemaic Egypt: the coronation ritual of the sacred living falcon. The available source material suggests that this ritual was a new composition of the Ptolemaic period in which tradition was merged with contemporary ideas. An investigation of the interrelations of the ritual texts and iconographic themes of this ritual with other textual and iconographic materials enabled us to investigate the role and function of tradition in the ritual, to identify the editorial processes to which the new composition was subjected and to reach conclusions on the extent of originality and the conceptualisation of innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition. The analysis of the structural organisation of the ritual on the temple walls has shown that the order of the ritual scenes on the temple walls does not necessarily reflect the order in which the ritual took place in reality and that the ritual was not necessarily carried out in the specific location where it is depicted on the temple walls. These findings resulted in a new reconstruction of the ritual sequence of the coronation ritual of the falcon based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions. On the basis of textual, iconographic and lexicographic material combined with an analysis of the archaeological sources a new identification was proposed of the various locations in and around the Edfu temple domain where the ritual was carried out
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El-Badawy, Emman Seif El Din. "Educating for global citizenship in Egypt's private sector : a critical study of cosmopolitanism among the Egyptian student elite." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29780.
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In an age of globalisation, conflicting identities and cultures continue to remain a source of seemingly intractable conflict. Educative interventions are meanwhile increasing in trend among academics, politicians and multilateral aid organisations. Each regard education as a long-term solution to contemporary social and security issues. Supporting literature on the relationship between education and identity suggests that formal education has a powerful influence on students’ outlook on life, their loyalties and their identities. This premise suggests that when questioned about global issues, Egyptian students who attend international schools within their own country of origin should show more signs of cosmopolitanism and global mindedness than their nationally educated peers. Yet, contrary findings to that of prevailing discourse suggest that education’s ability to shape values and loyalties is likely overemphasised when placed in the context of foreign curricula and international education. At times, students of international schools involved in this study showed more signs of nationalism than their nationally educated counterparts, and presented as equally traditional, conservative and ‘anti-West’ as their compatriots. The thesis thus argues that when education is placed within an international framework, its ability to socialise is significantly weakened, as it is faced with considerable firewalls that are yet to be adequately acknowledged in the discussion of post-national citizenship education. Using a combination of interpretative and critical research methods, rich and original qualitative data was gathered on attitudes and lifestyles of elite Egyptians enrolled at a variety of Egypt’s private international schools. Twenty-two international school educated Egyptian students, and a control group of 21 nationally educated Egyptian students of the same socio-economic background were invited to participate in specially tailored one-to-one interviews to measure their degree of cosmopolitan attitudes. Supplementary participant observations of Egyptian families actively involved in Egypt’s international education community were also conducted to consider the complementarity of the students’ home lives with their school lives. Focus groups were held with students of international schools to determine their views and attitudes towards global issues and other communities. All findings from this research were assessed alongside large-scale values surveys including the World Values Surveys and the Arab Youth Surveys. With the large sample size of pre-existing opinion polls, and the unique isolation of curriculum type as an independent variable in this study, it was possible to assess the transformative impact that an international education plays in the expression of values and beliefs of Egyptian students. The findings of this thesis have multidisciplinary value. For political science readers, the study offers a critical and epistemological analysis of concepts of cosmopolitanism, Westernisation, globalisation and global citizenship. For readers of the Middle East, it is a study into Egyptian youth today and their conflicting identities and loyalties. The Egyptian experience of private international schools and foreign investment is representative of a regional trend, and valuable to those wishing to consider competing narratives for identity in twenty-first century Middle East societies. Finally, it is a study that has an added value to educationists as it explores the role education plays on identity, and more specifically the role of international schools on globalisation and international mindedness. The growing trend of research and analysis that focuses on increased global connectedness and a culturally converging world makes this thesis an important and timely contribution. In an effort to extend the debate beyond the prevailing macro-analyses of change through globalisation, this thesis stresses the importance of looking at global interconnectivity at the micro-level, and particularly how young people navigate and negotiate their identity within the context of increasingly transnational spaces. Through this endeavour, it has reached a critical evaluation of our current understanding of a ‘post-national’ future, through the attitudes and opinions of some of today’s internationally educated generation.
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Maitland, Margaret St Claire. "Representations of social identity and hierarchy in the elite culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714060.
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Roussillon, Alain. "Reforme sociale et identite : pensee, ideologies, societe en egypte." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030194.
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En termes de "reformisme", l'objet de la recherche porte, sur le terrain egyptien, sur la recurrence de systemes d'action et de representation articules par une visee identitaire. Par "reformisme", j'entends la correlation etablie par les acteurs sociaux entre la question de la production du sens et celle de l'identite, meritee et a construire. Dans le contexte colonial et post-colonial, la logique de la reforme est celle a travers laquelle s'opere, ou tente de s'operer, l'autonomisation d'un champ intellectuel, d'un champ politique et d'un champ religieux. Pour ce qui est du champ intellectuel, la recherche porte sur les conditions de l'emergence en egypte des sciences sociales, et en particulier de la sociology. Dans le champ politique, elle porte sur le processus d'emergence de l'etat, sur la mise en place de ses modes d'actions et sur les differents expressions du naturalisme egyptien, y compris l'oralisme ou le socialisme orale. A l'intersection du politique et du religieux, de tente de rendre compte des differentes manifestations de l'islamisme en egypte - societes islamiques d'investissement et finance islamique, prise de controle des associations professionnelles, participation politique, violence. . .
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Walker, Dennis Patrick. "Supra-Egyptian Islamic and Pan-Arab identities and acculturated Muslim Egyptian intellectuals, 1892-1952." Phd thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12759.
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This dissertation surveys the development of pan-Islamic and pan-Arab identifications
among two main groups of Westernizing-educated intellectuals: (a) those in the independence
movement launched by Mustafa Kamil (to 1918) and (b) that around the newspapers al-Jaridah
(1908-1914) of the Ummah Party and then, after 1922, around the successor al-Siyasah and Party
of Liberal Constitutionalists. Our focus on the conflict and interblending of Arab and Western
high cultures stresses impoverishing and positive educational and aesthetic experiences in the
age of imperialism as the motive for the pan-Islamic and pan-Arab identification that this
Muslim Egyptian elite built up.
Book 1 (1892-1918). The literature has over-stressed Egyptianist and pan-Islamic
attitudes in Kamil's Hizb al-Watani and Egyptianist and secularoid ones from Ahmad Lutfi
al-Sayyid's al-Jaridah --- doubly neglecting pre-1918 Egyptian Arabism. This study details
respectful or at least very engaged evocation from both groups of "the [classical] Arab Nation".
Neither group rigorously articulated a contemporary Arab successor-community, but we review
proto-pan-Arab interactions and disorderly transitional terminology in contexts of Arab World
literary activity that did point forward to the later post-1922 modern pan-Arab nation. Despite it~
particularoid homeland frame, pre-1913 Egyptian political nationalism already had features more
like linguistic nationalism. Dual-cultured, both Kamilist and al-Jaridah writers became more and
more aware of modern sectors of life that the standard literary Arabic of the classical Arabs had
to be extended to cover. They made the ultra-politicized Qur'an-defined deterritorializing high
Arabic their rallying-ground of struggle against the British. Language only instanced how
extensively the intellectuals had, by 1914, integrated their Arab-Islamic and modern make-up.
Kamilist pan-Islam, a spiritual stage ahead of Western nationalisms, had already synthesized the
global technology and economic drives of imperialism into the chipped-down essence of Islam's
wide community impulse.
standard Arabic
independence. It assesses al-Siyasah alternation or conflict --- but, again, also
Kamilist-like blending and synthesis --- between (a) secularoid Western and (b) politicized
classical Arab and Islamic motifs. Post-1922 Zionism again alternated and blended this elite's
two cultures. Real data and prejudices from Western polities about Jews there blended into (b)
Islam's old community concepts and shrines to (c) define Zionism as an internationally coherent
Darwinian enemy.
Our examinations of the growth of pan-Arabism into Egypt's official community
ideology in the 1930s and 1940s show it was still often fitting well into Western liberal cultures
and technology. The new post-1930 establishment Arabism was only sectionally neo-classical:
advancing to a purely linguistic nationhood, it dropped fondness for Arab race or lineage in the
classical high literature and in Egyptian villages in order to integrate the diverse Arabic-speaking
populations (using the West's economic and technological modernity). Although the
intellectuals still developed affinities and outreaches to wider non-Arab Muslim and Eastern
peoples, the inner more unitary political community is gradually contracted and separated to
within the sphere of daily Arabic speech (we concentrate on Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat).
The classical Arabs' language had some less Islamic literature and extending it to cover
all modernity was a joint enterprize of Muslim Egyptian and non-Egyptian Christian Arab
intellectuals. Despite patches of transformation from the positivist West, however, Islam held as
a community basis for the Muslim intellectuals: they could not carry through a fusion with Copt~
within abortive post~1922 neo-Pharaonic particularism and in the 1930s and 1940s failed to
adequately perceive within political decolonization West Asian Christian Arab groups that they
culturally appreciated.
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Harris, Stephanie Joan. "Decoding ancient Egyptian diadems: symbolism and iconography as a means of interpreting feminine identity." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24936.
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Text in EnglishAncient Egyptian distinctive headdresses made from precious or semi-precious materials date to prehistoric times, indicating a growing sense of individuality and hierarchy. Women’s headdresses were indicators of rulership, divinity, social status, cultic affiliation and wealth. Visual evidence indicates that female identity was emphasised by external and outward appearance and headdresses in the form of diadems followed recognised stylistic dictates throughout the Dynastic Period. The floral and faunal motifs used in the embellishment were believed to have protective amuletic and magical powers. Although a considerable amount of investigation has been undertaken into the use of materials and techniques used in the manufacture of diadems, the incorporation of symbolism and iconography of these gendered artefacts as a means of interpreting visual messages and self-expression has largely been unexplored. The study has been limited to well-provenanced, extant Old, Middle and New Kingdom diadems housed in various museums worldwide.
Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
M.A. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies)
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"The Egyptian Women's Movement: Identity Politics and the Process of Liberation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14286.
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abstract: This thesis examines the advent of the Egyptian women's movement from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. Continuous negotiations for control between the secular and the religious institutions of Egypt led to the state's domination over the public jurisdiction and the Islamists maintaining a grip over the Egyptian private sphere, which includes family laws and matters of the home. The Egyptian women's movement contested and resisted against the secular nationalists (the state) and conservative Islamists for just and equal society in general, and political rights, and educational, marriage, and divorce reform specifically, which were assurances made to the women's movement by both. Groups formed within the movement joined together and converged to collaborate on key concerns that involved Egyptian women as a collective group such as education and political rights. Using the written works of scholars and leaders of these movements, this study investigates and observes the unique unity achieved through the diversity and disunity of the Egyptian women's movement; as well as explores the individual activism of significant leaders and pioneers of the movement in the midst of cultural encounters resulting from imperialism, political revolutions, and other major societal and political developments of nineteenth and twentieth century Egypt. It explores the ideas and actions of the Egyptian women as they emerged from a veil of silence which shadowed women's existence in Egypt's crucial years of nationalization eventually leading to a unique emergence of an incorporation of Islamism and feminism.Dissertation/Thesis
M.A. History 2011
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Elseewi, Tarik Ahmed. "Egypt is mother of the world : transnational television and national identity." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1631.
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This dissertation is about the production of national identity in the transnational age. Focusing on the specific example of Egyptian television, this dissertation argues that new production imperatives, mainly in satellite television and internet, have changed the way that television is produced in the Arabic speaking Middle East, most significantly away from direct state control. The changes in production accompany changes in distribution and consumption of electronic media and are significantly rewriting the ways that shared cultural identities in the Middle East, including nationalism, religious, and other significant identities, are produced, consumed and replicated. This dissertation approaches these topics by relating two specific televisual texts, the Ramadan serials Malek Farouq and Gamal Abdel Nasser, to larger changes in Arab and Egyptian television production.text
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Salim, Rana. "Cultural Identity and Self-presentation in Ancient Egyptian Fictional Narratives. An Intertextual Study of Narrative Motifs from the Middle Kingdom to the Roman Period." Phd thesis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00859222.
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The present dissertation is a diachronic study of cultural identity and self-presentation in ancient Egyptian fictional narratives. Cultural identity implies notions such as customs, practices, values and world-views that are implicitly or explicitly expressed in fictional narrative. The texts that are included in the study span from the Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2055-1650 BC and 1550-1069 BC), and Ptolemaic and Roman periods (332-30 BC and 30 BC- 395 AD) and the material is analyzed within a framework that addresses "narrative traditions," which is the transmission of cultural identity in the narratives through time. In light of the diachronic perspective of the study, I focus on four principle motifs of Egyptian narratives: priests, kings,warriors, and women, and explore the literary presentations of these within an historical and intertextual context. The project relates to the literate class of ancient Egyptian society and through exploring the motifs above-mentioned motifs within a diachronic historical and intertextual context, the aim of the thesis is to gain an understanding of forming and preserving cultural identity of that specific sphere of Egyptian society through time. The archeological contexts of the material will, where itis possible, be included. This will contribute to identifying, for example, established traditions, as opposed to local traditions.
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Murray, Sharon E. Pullen Daniel J. "The gaze of the beholder how national identity in nineteenth-century England was reinforced by the collection and display of ancient Egyptian material culture /." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11152004-210811.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Pullen, Florida State University, College of Visual Arts and Dance, Dept. of Art History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 18, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.
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Kizimchuk, Stephanie. "Mizrahi Memoirs: History, Memory, and Identity in Displacement." Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132609.
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In this dissertation I analyse the dynamics of history, memory,
and identity as represented in the published English-language
memoirs of Mizrahim (also known as ‘Middle Eastern Jews’ or
‘Arabic Jews’) who were displaced during the mid- to
later-twentieth century from Iraq, Iran, and Egypt. I take a
thematic approach, analysing the memoirs through a focus on
metaphor, sensescapes, dreams, urban landscapes and sacred sites,
as well as the different perspectives of key stakeholders. I
demonstrate that the culture wars model is inadequate for the
study of the experiences of displacement and dispersal. Rather, I
argue that the framework of multidirectional memory (Michael
Rothberg), in combination with the notion of screen memory,
provides a far more accurate reflection of the memory dynamics
represented across this body of texts. I also draw on the
concepts of postmemory (Marianne Hirsch) and the ‘off-modern’
(Svetlana Boym) as productive ways of understanding the
intergenerational transmission of histories and memories, and the
construction of diverse identities in post-displacement life.
Furthermore, I show that memory dynamics are multidimensional and
are shaped by the senses, emotions, and spirituality. They are
multilayered, encompassing diverse experiences of temporality,
place, and ontology. They are also highly entangled and
interweave different perspectives, power relations, locations,
histories, and peoples.
Through examining the dynamics of memories, histories, and
identities in published English-language Mizrahi life writing, I
seek to contribute to a more accurate understanding of the
diversity of Jewish experiences and the complexity of Jewish life
and history in a Middle Eastern and North African context. I aim
to develop a nuanced understanding of situations of displacement,
dispersal, and resettlement. I demonstrate that memoir writing is
a crucial genre for recording migratory experiences and
transnational histories. This medium provides a vital and
powerful tool that can aid in the recovery of psychological
wellbeing and emotional resilience among women and men who have
been displaced. An improved understanding of memory dynamics as
well as the construction of identities and histories is all the
more important in this present moment where dangerously
simplistic divisions are often made at the expense of equity,
diversity, and true human complexity.
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Boulos, Sallie Ann. "The Role of Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, and Religious Fatalism on Attitudes Towards Seeking Psychological Help Among Coptic Americans." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9426.
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The purpose of this current study was to determine the role of acculturation, ethnic identity, and religious fatalism regarding attitudes towards seeking psychological help among Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Americans. In addition, differences between groups of gender and generational status, first-generation adult immigrants versus U.S.-born second-generation Copts, were analyzed. The study had a total sample of 91 individuals that self-identified as Coptic by race and/or Coptic Orthodox by religion, who voluntarily completed an anonymous online questionnaire.
Results indicate that ethnic identity and acculturation are strong predictors of religious fatalistic beliefs, and those who identified as having more Arab ethnic identity and less assimilation to dominate culture have stronger religious fatalistic beliefs than those who identified with more western culture and an American ethnic identity. However, religious fatalism and ethnic identity were not significant predictors of attitudes towards seeking psychological help, and other variables such as stigma, language barriers, and skepticism of western psychology may be better predictors of attitudes towards seeking psychological help. Between groups comparisons identified subtle differences between males and females, and between first and second-generation Coptic Americans on acculturation, ethnic identity, and religious fatalism, but the groups were not statistically significant from one another. Clinical implications and directions for future research will also be discussed.
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Hulínová, Beáta. "Kodaňská škola bezpečnosti - societální dimenze na případě Egypta Sekuritazice a její dopad na lidská práva." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-306529.
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The aim of this paper is to find out whether the securitization theory of the Copenhagen School is applicable outside euro-american space. This topic is chosen because of the contradicting opinions of theorists regarding the universality of the theory. Many authors criticize also the disregard of the process, context, pictures or physical actions. The theory is applied in societal sector in Egypt on nine cases including human rights non-governmental organizations, political opponents, critics and asylum seekers. The development of securitization, implementation of extraordinary measures, results and impact of the securitization are monitored in these cases. Attention is paid also to the fact whether securitization took into consideration context, process and whether pictures and physical actions played any role and what role it was. Method used in the paper is instrumental case study. It aims at the explanation of narrowly defined case on the basis of the theory. In the stated cases the threats to identity are presented as "others", alien and with the exception of one case as "Western" which means different from the Egyptian identity. The implementation of extraordinary measures to deal with the threats then becomes legitimate. The main contribution of the paper is the finding that the...