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ElDessouki, Wael M. "Development of a Neighborhood Mobility Index for Assessing Mobility Disparities in Developing Countries with Application to the Greater Cairo Area, Egypt." Sustainability 14, no. 23 (November 28, 2022): 15846. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142315846.
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Most urban planners emphasize sustainability’s environmental and economic aspects and overlook the social equity dimension. Assessment of the current mobility situation is a prerequisite for developing socially sustainable urban mobility plans. However, current metrics for mobility assessment are data intensive and sometimes require the development of a detailed transportation model for the urban area, which is difficult to achieve in developing nations. In this study, we have created an index for assessing mobility for neighborhoods in a metropolitan area that requires minimal land-use information and utilizes online third-party travel-time data. The proposed index merges the fundamental principles of the traditional transportation planning process and congestion metrics to assess the mobility status of different neighborhoods in an urban area for a single mode of transportation. The developed neighborhood mobility index (NMI) was evaluated in the Greater Cairo Area (GCA), and the results were validated by conducting a one-dimensional ANOVA. The validation results showed that the results obtained using the developed NMI were reliable with a good degree of confidence. The case study demonstrated the capabilities of the NMI in detecting disparities between neighborhoods in a city and showed how planners and decision-makers could use it in preparing sustainable mobility plans.
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Omayer, Hayam M. "Smart public transportation: A future framework for sustainable new cities (Case study Greater Cairo)." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 992, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 012007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/992/1/012007.
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Abstract In the context of the tremendous progress in information technology in all spheres of life, it is necessary to adopt more intelligence solutions to increase the quality of life and achieve sustainable cities. Currently, without a doubt, we have the ability to make all city services accessible to everybody. Transportation and mobility systems are critical components of sustainable city development. Therefore, the scientific literature on the technological systems employed in transportation systems and their primary uses is extensive, outlining their application to improving people’s quality of life through promoting a sustainable environment. Recently. There is a new generation of ITS (intelligence transportation system) resulting from the encouragement of related public policy that has been deeply integrated with new infrastructure and new technologies for improving the quality of life. The new generation of ITS technology and urban analysis and planning technology can not only meet the current problems of the coordinated development of the public transportation system and big cities like Cairo, but also meet the needs of the city’s future development in advance. This paper will discuss the transformation of intelligent public transportation, the opportunities, and applications, using technologies, and implementation in various urban areas using a case study of China’s smart transportation. Additionally, propose a future framework for sustainable transportation in new cities and the feasibility of implementing them in Egypt’s new cities. Highlight the actions and outcomes of integrating technologies, as well as their environmental, urban, economic, and social impacts. In order to develop and increase the quality of life in the cities of Egypt and the developing world in order to achieve sustainability goals.
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Nadim, Wafaa. "Live-work and adaptable housing in Egypt." Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 5, no. 3 (September 5, 2016): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sasbe-08-2016-0019.
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Purpose Since the 1950s, Egypt has been challenged by rapid unplanned and uncontrolled informal developments. These may be regarded as people’s interventions to fulfil their basic needs which are seemingly not successfully materialised in previous as well as current interventions. Building on the anticipated demographic and socio-economic changes in the Egyptian society and the consequent changing needs; the purpose of this paper is to present the preliminary investigation of an ongoing research project that regards the housing unit as the nucleus for autonomous mobility starting from the dwelling internal spaces to the nearest public transport. In this respect, informal interventions to adapt housing typologies to the various needs are explored, defined, and categorised to inform future developments. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory phase follows an interpretivist view, which regards reality as not being objective and exterior, but rather socially constructed – given meaning by people. Acknowledging this, a qualitative case study approach was adopted to investigate the perception and aspirations of different age groups and educational levels, including different mobility abilities regarding the efficiency of their housing units and the immediate surroundings – context bound to an informal area in Greater Cairo, Egypt. This investigation comprised two stages. The first was an observatory site visit to establish, define, and identify preliminary challenges; these were then verified and complemented through the second stage which involved meeting and validating stage one data with respective inhabitants. An invitation was sent to inhabitants through an active NGO in the area to gain trust and acceptance of the inhabitants. The invitation targeted different age groups, physical abilities, and educational levels. Findings While developed countries are reviving and promoting the live-work concept, and are continuously thriving to adapt their housing and built environment (in general) to be age friendly; in Egypt, however, Government has largely provided housing projects which adopt a total separation between residential and non-residential activities. Furthermore, the mixed-use typology provided by the Government was arguably with “limited success”. Informal developments on the contrary tend to provide mixed-use housing typologies; in addition to informally adapting their “formal” dwellings to satisfy users’ changing needs. People and particularly the elderly do not consider the quality of their habitable environment as a priority (as long as they have a shelter for their families). However, while not explicitly acknowledging the problematic nature of their dwellings, specific interventions – physical and/or functional, imply their dissatisfaction, including their attempts to improve the spatial and functional qualities of their units. The results from literature review triangulated with findings from the case study; devised a conceptual framework which comprises subcategories for a successful realisation of mixed-use adaptable housing typology in Egypt to inform second phase of the research (not reported). Research limitations/implications This preliminary phase investigates the breadth of housing units’ challenges and explores potential for adaptation. Therefore, a qualitative semi-structured approach was adopted to allow participants to express themselves freely. Furthermore, the participants are those who accepted the invitation to participate in the study, and therefore care should be taken when generalising the results beyond this bounded observation lens. Social implications This research highlights the needs and challenges that need to be taken into account to ensure future housing typologies are adaptable and responsive to current as well as future socio-economic and demographic changes. Originality/value This work evaluates, defines, and categorise mixed-use housing typology potential and challenges in light of informal developments in Egypt. These challenges inform the second phase of this research to identify possible scenarios for achieving systemic “inclusivity” for future housing developments in Egypt.
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Gertel, J�rg, and Petra Kuppinger. "Space, social reproduction and food security in Cairo/Egypt." GeoJournal 34, no. 3 (November 1994): 277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00813931.
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Brooke, Steven. "Egypt: The Muslim Brothers in Society: Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Islamism in Mubarak's Egypt, by Marie Vannetzel. Translated by David Tresilian (book review)." Middle East Journal 76, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 409–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3751/76.3.301.
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The Muslim Brothers in Society: Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Islamism in Mubarak's Egypt, by Marie Vannetzel. Translated by David Tresilian. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2020. 484 pages. $49.95.
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Drolet, Julie. "Women, micro credit and empowerment in Cairo, Egypt." International Social Work 54, no. 5 (December 6, 2010): 629–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872810382681.
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Early, Evelyn Aleene. "The baladi curative system of Cairo, Egypt." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 12, no. 1 (March 1988): 65–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00047039.
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Ibrahim, Nasser A. "A Concubine in Early-Modern Egypt." Hawwa 14, no. 3 (December 5, 2016): 251–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341310.
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This article portrays the life of Al-Sit Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya, originally taken captive in Georgia and sold into slavery in Cairo, who rises from life as a concubine to become the wife of the Mamluk leader Murad Bey in the late eighteenth century. In the process, Nafisa became chief of the Mamluk Harem and acquired substantial wealth, but her fate would take a turn for the worse after Muhammad Ali Pasha consolidated his control of Egypt and began his efforts to annihilate the Mamluks, culminating in the famous Cairo Citadel massacre of 1811. As her life in various ways mirrored that of Egypt’s Mamluks, this study uses the example of Nafisa to understand the extent to which large social, economic and political changes impacted the lives of individuals who lived through them.
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Zinkow, Leszek. "The Sphinx and the Awakenings of Egypt." Perspektywy Kultury 37, no. 2 (June 29, 2022): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/pk.2022.3702.05.
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The article discusses some interesting themes of using the image of the Egyptian sphinx in contemporary contexts: the Egypt Awakened (Nahdat Misr) monument in Cairo, symbolizing modern Egypt, and the use of the sphinx motif as an aspect of social protests; the so-called Arab Spring and the political upheaval in Egypt of 2010–2012.
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Anwar, Rosihon, and Asep Abdul Muhyi. "Transmisi dan Transformasi Tradisi Tafsir Dari Mesir ke-Nusantara: Kajian Tafsīr Qur’ān Karīm." Tashwirul Afkar 41, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 213–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.51716/ta.v41i2.78.
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Mahmud Yunus was the first ulama of Nusantara who expand to al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt. He studied with several leading ulama to study knowledge of the Qur’an and tafsīr. When he returned to Indonesia, Mahmud Yunus brought with him the traditions of the Qur’anic interpretation that he had found at al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt, then poured them into the Book of Tafsīr Qur'an Karīm. This research aims to find out the knowledge transmission that was formed between the interpreters of al-Azhar, Egypt and Mahmud Yunus, and the forms of interpretation traditions contained in Mahmud Yunus' Tafsīr Qur'ān Karīm. In order to uncover the ideological transformation of the Nusantara interpretation in this study, the hermeneutic method is used. The research results indicate that there are several tafsīr traditions contained in Tafsīr Qur'ān Karīm, including the knowledge tradition of interpretation, where Mahmud Yunus adopted Mustafa al-Maraghi's thoughts while studying at al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt. Also the tradition of social interpretation where Mahmud Yunus adopted the thoughts of Rasyid Ridha and Abduh. These traditions continue to develop up today, not even a few interpreters interpret the Qur'an with a scientific and social approach, such as Tafsīr al-Azhar by Hamka, Tafsīr al-Bayan by Hasbi Ashidiqi, Tafsīr al-Furqan by A Hasan, and tafsīr.
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Abouelela, Mohamed, Aitan Militao, and Constantinos Antoniou. "Impact of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) on Women’s Daily Travel Decisions: Τhe Case Study of Cairo." Ekistics and the new habitat 80, no. 3 (January 29, 2022): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e2020803512.
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Gender-based violence (GBV) on public transportation (PUT) is a global phenomenon that many women face daily. This phenomenon impacts women's mobility decisions, ranging from changing trip mode and route to cancelling the trip or even in some cases resigning from work. PUT is a vital component of urban life by providing the means of accessibility and mobility. Violence towards women on PUT often results in negative impacts on women's life, such as loss of opportunities, loss of accessibility, and extra financial burdens. In this research, we discuss the issue in the context of data from a survey collected recently in Cairo, Egypt.
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AlSadaty, Aliaa. "Historic Houses as Pillars of Memory: Cases from Cairo, Egypt." Open House International 43, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2018-b0002.
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The relationship between collective memory and the built environment is a complex relationship. Though the concept of memory is fragile, the maintenance and continuation of urban memory are essential to maintain groups' identities and to support the sense of place and place attachment between community members and the architectural settings they use and/or reside in. Preserving the physical aspects of buildings, spaces and settings that are linked with memory, is important to preserve the memory, however, the mere preservation does not guarantee the continuation of memory. The maintenance and continuation of memory is a process that depends on several factors, where the preservation of the physical aspects is only one among several. This paper aims at a better understanding of the intricate relationship between collective memory and the built environment, focusing on the processes of formation, stimulation and consolidation of memory. The paper sheds the lights on historic houses that are embedded with significant meanings and memories to their social contexts. It claims that historic houses can easily shift from ‘potential cultural memory' to ‘actual cultural memory' that could act as pillars of memory to their surrounding community, if the conservation process is done comprehensively, that is to include not only the physical and spatial aspects of memory but also to tackle the social dimensions of memory as well. The paper is organized into three sections: the first investigates the memory formation process, focusing on the social and the spatial dimension of memory, then the second investigates the possible channels to memory stimulation and consolidation, and finally, as a case study, the third section investigates the memory of two historic houses in Cairo, Egypt. The review of the works undertaken in the two houses highlights the difference and the distance between the concept of restoration and the essence of conservation. Findings yielded that, urban memory is an important aspect of cultural heritage that should to be captured and preserved for current and future generations, an aspect that is missing in local conservation approaches. Moreover, to be maintained, urban memory needs physical, social and moral props.
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Elhini, Maha, and Tarek Moursi. "Social mobility and education: The case of Egypt." International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research 1, no. 1 (March 4, 2015): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.106401.
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Danielson, Nora. "Channels of Protection: Communication, Technology, and Asylum in Cairo, Egypt." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 29, no. 1 (October 10, 2013): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.37504.
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Communication between service providers and refugees about services, legal processes, and rights helps shape refugees’ experience of asylum but has, in Cairo, Egypt, been a source of misunderstandings and conflict. Based on qualitative pilot research, this paper explores the practices, challenges, and potentials of information technologies old and new in facilitating access to asylum in this southern city. Interviews with refugee and service providers and review of previous technology-based initiatives show that although service providers tend to rely on oral information transfer, other channels—print, phone, text messaging, websites, social media—hold significant capacity for growth. Existing practices and initiatives in Cairo demonstrate the potential for technology-based projects to overcome the geographic barriers of the urban setting and the range of literacy and languages in Cairo’s refugee communities. However, service providers and refugees require further funding and institutional support if this potential is to be realized.
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Larson, Barbara K. "Reem Saad, Social History of an Agrarian Reform Community in Egypt, Cairo Papers in Social Science, Vol. II, Monograph 4 (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1988). Pp. 126." International Journal of Middle East Studies 23, no. 1 (February 1991): 98–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743800034590.
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Murray, John S. "The Cairo Stories: Some Reflections on Conflict Resolution in Egypt." Negotiation Journal 13, no. 1 (January 1997): 39–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1571-9979.1997.tb00117.x.
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Hoehn, John P., and Douglas J. Krieger. "An Economic Analysis of Water and Wastewater Investments in Cairo, Egypt." Evaluation Review 24, no. 6 (December 2000): 579–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193841x0002400602.
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Hashim, Ahmed M. M., Ahmed M. Hassan, Ghada Essam El-Din Amin, and Mohamed Farouk Allam. "Prevalence of Strox Smoking Among University Students in Cairo, Egypt." Open Public Health Journal 13, no. 1 (August 19, 2020): 425–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874944502013010425.
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Background: In Egypt, the prevalence rate of New Psychoactive Substances (NPSs) use is severely underestimated. In the last 5 years, several non-scientific reports have demonstrated the presence of an emergent, cheap NPSs that has taken the name of “Strox” or “Egyptian Spice”. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence rate of Strox smoking among undergraduate students attending Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo (Egypt). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in five non-medical colleges of ASU, namely, Law, Commerce, Computer Science, Engineering, and Literature. Participants were recruited using a convenient sampling method and were asked about NPSs use. Data were collected using the Marijuana Smoking History Questionnaire (MSHQ) developed by Bonn-Miller and Zvolensky (2009). The questionnaire was translated and modified to reflect Egyptian slang and culture. Results: This study included 558 students, 422 (75.6%) males and 136 (24.4%) females. The results showed that 189 (33.9%) were current tobacco smokers, 51 (9.1%) were smokers of substances other than tobacco, 45 (8.1%) were cannabis smokers, 38 (6.8%) were Strox smokers, and 3 (0.5%) were Voodoo smokers. When students were asked about their reasons for smoking Strox, they cited the following motivations: to achieve a feeling of euphoria(28.9%), depression (23.7%), experimentation (23.7%), peer pressure (21.1%), and having excess money (2.6%). The results showed a clear association between tobacco and cannabis smoking and consumption of Strox. Conclusion: Although the prevalence rates of NPSs usage as observed in this study were not high, higher rates could be expected in other communities outside of the university. Community-based studies are needed to estimate the magnitude of NPSs use in Egypt and the associated risk factors.
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Masoumi, Houshmand, and Erik Fruth. "Transferring Urban Mobility Studies in Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to Other Large MENA Cities: Steps toward Sustainable Transport." Urban Development Issues 65, no. 1 (April 9, 2020): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2020-0003.
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AbstractThe number of urban mobility studies and projects in the three large metropoles of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo, is growing while other large cities do not enjoy a large share. It would be efficient for those other large cities to adapt the experiences, projects, and studies of Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to their own contexts. This paper can help facilitate that adaptation. It investigates the transferability and generalisability of the findings of a recent publication by the lead author on mobility choices in Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to some other large cities of more than one million inhabitants in the MENA region. The discussion provided here can provide decision-makers in the MENA region with guidance on how to utilise the findings from a recent study on Tehran/Istanbul/Cairo in their own contexts. T-tests were conducted to test the comparability of the three base cities with a sample 57 others with populations of over one million people. The results show that it would be possible to adapt the urban mobility studies of the three base megacities to 3 to 27 cities based on different criteria. Key suggestions identified by this study include providing local accessibility, neighbourhood facilities, and cycling facilities as well as removing social and legal constraints to cycling, advertising cycling, informing people about the harm arising from the overuse of cars, and increasing street connectivity by adding intersections. According to the findings, these evidence-based recommendations can enhance sustainable mobility for the inhabitants of up to 27 large cities.
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Zelenev, Evgeny I., and Milana Iliushina. "Islamic Education and Personal Career Mobility in the Circassian Sultanate (Late 14th–Early 15th Century)." Iran and the Caucasus 21, no. 3 (October 12, 2017): 292–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20170304.
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The authors explore the issue of education influence on the social status of people during the reign of the Circassian Sultans in Cairo (1382–1517). The study is focused on the issue, how social mobility, affected by the received education, could have influenced the personal status and the entire social structure of the Circassian Mamluks state.
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El-Feki, Sameh, and Taher Abdel-Ghani. "The architectural features of socio-spatial transformation in Hassan Al-Imam’s Cairo Trilogy." Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 199–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00055_1.
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The urban scenery that dominated Cairo since the nineteenth century was a spatial superimposition of tradition and modernity, represented in the social and architectural composition of the city. The cinematic medium in Egypt attempted to visualize such overlap through a vivid depiction of spatial transformations occurring within the micro and macro urban levels revealing hidden aspects of social order and organizational behaviour. This article sheds light on Egyptian filmmaker Hassan Al-Imam’s Cairo Trilogy films, based on the critically acclaimed novels by Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz, where the story takes place in the heart of early twentieth-century Cairo spanning from 1917 to 1944. The films’ physical features illustrate the morphology of time and urban space constituting to the socio-spatial narratives of the local setting, a theoretical framework adopted by the authors named cine-spatial representation. Through the examination of such connection within the settings across the three films, the article reveals the influence of non-physical elements on the physicality of architectural and urban space, creating a visual narrative from social collectivism to individualist fragmentation.
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Ghonimi, Islam. "Towards Sustainable New Settlements in Egypt: Lessons Learned from a Comparison between Traditional and Modern Settlements in Greater Cairo Region - Egypt." Journal of Sustainable Development 10, no. 5 (September 8, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v10n5p1.
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The last few decades, Egypt drawn into a dramatic socio-economic change that causes a relative change in adopted development patterns. Different typologies of new residential districts have turned from globalized westernized world into Egyptian context. Planners and authority thought that changing adopted development patterns from traditional to modern neighborhood could provide solutions for old town's problems. On the other hand, different scholars have emphasized that traditional compact, mixed use, high-density urban forms are important for reaching sustainability goals in term of environmental, economic and social advantages. Based on a comparison of the sustainability of three case studies Shubra, Heliopolis, and new Cairo city; this research examine analyze the sustainability of New Egyptian Settlements. The analysis depends on observation and spatial analysis to investigate the variations of performances between the three case studies in terms of urban, social, environmental, and economic sustainability indicators. The research aims to assess the sustainability of moving from traditional to modern urban form in GCR' new towns and to extract development criteria and lessons learned from traditional urban form to enhance the sustainability of modern settlements. The research concluded that both traditional early developed settlements like Shubra and new planned settlements like new Cairo recorded low performance in sustainability issues, each one in its own way; and that early planned settlements like Heliopolis recorded moderate performance in sustainability issues, this paves the way for criteria to prepare new plans of new settlements and provide intensification repair tools to fix existing new settlements.
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Winegar, Jessica. "LILIANE KARNOUK, Contemporary Egyptian Art (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1995). Pp. 137." International Journal of Middle East Studies 32, no. 2 (May 2000): 304–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743800002440.
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Studies of contemporary visual art in the Middle East are scarce compared with the vast literature on historical Islamic arts. In the past ten years, however, several notable books and articles have featured this important but under-recognized realm of visual culture in the region. These recent works often examine the ways in which art reflects social trends such as nationalism and struggles for religious identity. Karnouk's book is a worthy introduction to the world of contemporary art in Egypt, and is the first major English-language book of its kind on the subject (see also Wijdan Ali, Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity [Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997]). Contemporary Egyptian Art is a sequel to Karnouk's earlier Modern Egyptian Art: The Emergence of a National Style (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1988), in which she outlined the prominent artists and styles of the first half-century of the modern art movement within the context of Egyptian nationalism. This recent book picks up from the 1952 revolution and presents the major trends in art since that time while offering possible socio-political explanations for these trends.
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Zinger, Oded. "The Use of Social Isolation (inqiṭāʿ) by Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63, no. 5-6 (November 11, 2020): 820–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341522.
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Abstract Petitions from the Cairo Geniza often emphasize that the petitioner is lonely or “cut off” (munqaṭiʿ) from social support. Such claims are gendered, as they are more common in women’s petitions than in men’s, and women occasionally use explicitly gendered expressions to highlight their social isolation. Claiming to lack social support had a special valency in medieval Islamicate societies due to the primacy of reciprocal social relationships in these societies. Since women’s access to cultural and social capital was more limited than men’s, women lacking effective and supportive male kin were particularly vulnerable and were recognized as deserving justice. Studying claims of social isolation thus sheds light on the social predicament of Jewish women in medieval Egypt. Finally, recognizing the currency of social isolation in women’s petition helps identify an opposite trend of social belonging in men’s petitions.
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Shafik, Nargis, Yasser Mansour, Shaimaa Kamel, and Ruby Morcos. "The Impact of the Cairo Streets Development Project on the Independent Mobility of Children: A Field Study on the Streets of Heliopolis, Egypt." Infrastructures 6, no. 7 (July 6, 2021): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6070098.
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Due to significant changes in Cairo’s streets today, young children may face difficulties finding opportunities to be safe and active. They can encounter low independent mobility, limiting their access to places in their neighborhoods, and can have poor access to their schools. This study aims to examine governmental primary school children’s access to schools in their neighborhoods after street modifications in Heliopolis, Cairo, seeking to evaluate the potential risks to child pedestrians. This will subsequently aid in developing a methodology for consistently and fairly evaluating hazards along the route to schools. A survey of six governmental primary schools in Heliopolis, Cairo, was conducted through interviews with children and their parents. Furthermore, a behavioral map of the local neighborhood was completed by children (7–12 years old) of six primary schools from the areas surrounding their schools in which the modifications took place. The results indicate that the most common ways of travelling to school, according to the questionnaire, are either by public transportation (30%) or by a small van/private bus (42%). More than half of the children expressed their wish to walk or cycle to school. The result also found that 69% of the children expressed anxiety about crossing streets. In conclusion, for some children, opportunities to be active in the local neighborhood may be limited due to the new modifications to the streets, resulting in limited independent mobility. To promote a sense of neighborhood safety and increase access to neighborhood public spaces, it is important to work with urban planners and local governments.
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AHMED, O., W. S. CHOI, A. J. FARKAS, and J. P. PIERCE. "Tobacco education in Cairo, Egypt: is there an effect on adolescent smoking?" Tobacco Control 8, no. 4 (December 1, 1999): 440–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.8.4.440a.
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Smith, Christine. "Art as a diagnostic: assessing social and political transformation through public art in Cairo, Egypt." Social & Cultural Geography 16, no. 1 (July 17, 2014): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.936894.
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Fábos, Anita Häusermann. "Embodying Transition: FGC, Displacement, and Gender-making for Sudanese in Cairo." Feminist Review 69, no. 1 (November 2001): 90–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01417780110070139.
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In this article I analyze both generalized propriety as a boundary marker of Sudanese identity in Cairo, and gendered attitudes toward morality and female genital cutting (FGC) as a fundamental aspect of that boundary. Sudanese have been profoundly affected by the ongoing political crisis in their home country, by the displacement triggered by political and economic collapse, and by their deteriorating legal and social status in Egypt. The dramatic changes in the circumstances of Sudanese residence in Cairo have challenged the cultural norm of gender complementarity as men ‘stay at home’ for want of work while women seek and find new opportunities for themselves. This unstable situation has led Sudanese to place more emphasis on ‘proper’ ways of behaving and being, an assertion that helps define the ethnic boundaries of the Sudanese community in Cairo. I demonstrate the inconsistencies between discourse and reality through ethnographic data while analyzing how Sudanese have found new ways of asserting their identity and resisting the practice of FGC.
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Binzel, Christine, and Jean‐Paul Carvalho. "Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: The Islamic Revival in Egypt." Economic Journal 127, no. 607 (April 19, 2017): 2553–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12416.
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Sarnataro, Azzurra. "An Analysis of Urban Initiatives in Cairo: Locality, Everyday Politics and Relational Space in Cairo’s Unplanned Neighbourhoods." Studi Magrebini 19, no. 1 (June 14, 2021): 63–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2590034x-12340040.
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Abstract This article focuses on urban activism and social movements that emerged in Cairo between 2011 and 2014 and argues that in unplanned areas these initiatives shape patterns of agency and social encounter. This contribution therefore investigates the transformative potential activated by the encounters between women of different social background in a small association (ǧamā‘iyya) in the unplanned area of Ezbet al-Haggana, in the north-east periphery of Cairo. Through analytical categories such as the “everyday politics”, “informality”, “relational space” and “capacity to aspire”, the article analyses how the everyday interactions, even within apparently non-politicized actions, reveal features of social change and mobility. The materials presented have been collected during a three-year research period conducted between 2012 and 2015. The fieldwork included 10 semi-structured interviews with local activists and institutional actors as well as an ethnographic account, which will be reported in the text.
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Hezam, Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub. "Corruption, Poverty and Immorality: An Analytical Study of New Cairo and Middaq Alley." مجلة العلوم التربوية و الدراسات الإنسانية 5, no. 12 (September 30, 2020): 461–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.55074/hesj.v5i12.179.
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This research paper aims at giving a realistic image of the exploitation and suffering of the low middle class in the realistic novels of Naguib Mahfouz Al-Qahira al-Jadida (New Cairo, 1945) and Zudaq al-Midaq (Midaq Alley, 1947). The two novels within their multipart of thematic formation and methodology invite huge possibilities of insights and investigations. Mahfouz focuses attention on the triple threats facing Egypt at that time, poverty, corruption, and unemployment. The study tries to show how Mahfouz argues through these novels that the existence of poverty and corruption in a society violates widely shared moral values and affects the poor people’s dignity as human beings. Using specific examples from the novels, the researcher points out that poverty often does serious harm to poor people’s bodies, relationships, morality, and social relationships. The themes dealt with in these two novels are still valid in today Egypt and the Arab World.
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Ismail, ElHassan Reda, Ghada Mohamed El-Mahdy, Ahmed Hussein Ibrahim, and Ahmed Osama Daoud. "Towards automated construction for safe disposal of materials waste in the Egyptian construction industry." E3S Web of Conferences 347 (2022): 02010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202234702010.
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The solid waste management (SWM) represents one of the most important challenges worldwide in the current period. Also, it contributes to large negative effect on the three aspects of sustainability which are environmental, social and economic sustainability. Approximately 50% of total annual global generated solid waste (SW) is from construction and demolition waste (CDW). The case of CDW in Egypt has become a major challenge, and Egypt encounters many challenges that obstacle the way for development of efficient SWM especially towards ensuring safe disposal of CDW. This paper aims to investigate: (1) the rising problem related to SW in Egypt showing its main causes; (2) CDW percentages in greater Cairo; (3) the unsafe disposal of CDW waste in Egypt through reviewing most recent research papers; and (4) automation in construction techniques that were previously implemented for better CDW management (CDWM). Findings and recommendations of CDWM improvement in Egypt from this study are expected to encourage research on automated construction technique towards ensuring safe disposal of CDW in Egypt which would be of great effect towards improving sustainability levels in the Egyptian construction sector.
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Ahmed, Fatma, Abanoub Fayez, and Ahmad Haron. "Comparison Study for Art Centers in Greater Cairo To Achieve Heritage conservation." Resourceedings 2, no. 2 (October 5, 2020): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v2i2.737.
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Art centers Art centers play an important role in building social connections and increasing the artistic sense of community in addition to enhancing peoples' creative skills and developing their analytical and intellectual abilities which lead to success. The vital role of art centers is developing the community traditional culture as well as calling for reviving the spirit of authenticity and preservation of cultural heritage.In Egypt Art Centers are worked asfunctional community centers that focus on supporting arts practice and facilities as art galleries act as museums that reflect many aspects of people’s lives.Educational facilities, workshops, a performing arts theatre, a fine arts library, music library, and dance and drawing studios supporting local communities and cover part of the gap between culture needs and available building and facilities in the city.Cairo’s role as the cultural capital of one of oldest civilizations in the world is reflected in the arts and architecture of all periods. Therefore, the art centers role in Greater Cairo varies to preserve and teach the traditional and new arts. Despite the emergence of museums in Egypt in the early nineteenth century, the establishment of art centers in Egypt in its current form began in the late fifties in the twentieth century. It appeared as new buildings or the reuse of heritage buildings. Its function is to revive and teach different types of art different periods, achieve conservation of identity, Cultural heritage and creating a new artistic value.This study will highlight the complex value of art centers buildings in Cairo with a comparison between its design, roles and methods of development. FromArchitects,Academicians, designers,andstudents point views toward sitting up a methodology for the design and development of arts centers in Greater Cairo.
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Elfar, Eman, Noha Asem, and Hanaa Yousof. "The awareness of neglected tropical diseases in a sample of medical and nursing students in Cairo University, Egypt: A cross-sectional study." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14, no. 11 (November 18, 2020): e0008826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008826.
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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of chronic diseases affecting 1.2 billion people worldwide, with more burden in the developing communities. Improving awareness about NTDs is a powerful affordable long-term intervention for infection control. In literature, there is a limited number of studies in the developing countries assessing the awareness of healthcare providers regarding these diseases. The present study aimed at assessing the awareness of a sample of Cairo University medical and nursing students regarding NTDs. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 184 medical and nursing students in Cairo University. An anonymous self-administered questionnaire in English language with an estimated completion time of 15 minutes was used for evaluation. It included question categories which cover the knowledge about NTDs and control measures as well as the willingness to participate in NTDs control activities. Content analysis was performed on the materials and specifications of the epidemiology course given to medical and nursing students. Out of the study participants, 26% knew the meaning of NTDs. The main source of their knowledge was social media followed by the epidemiology course. A percentage of 33% of the students agreed that NTDs are of public health importance in Egypt. Thirty four percent of the participants expressed their willingness to participate in control activities for NTDs. Comparing medical and nursing students, a higher percentage of the nursing students stated that NTDs are causing a public health problem in Egypt with a statistically significant difference (P value < 0.001), while a statistically significant higher percentage of medical students believed that the awareness level regarding NTDs in Egypt is low (P value = 0.002). Cairo University medical and nursing students in this study showed a gap in the level of knowledge regarding NTDs and their control activities which represents a great threat to the control of these diseases.
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Abdou, Doaa Salman, and Zeinab Zaazou. "Arab Spring future challenges: evidence from Egypt." Review of Economics and Political Science 3, no. 2 (July 31, 2018): 56–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/reps-07-2018-004.
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Purpose This paper aims to shed light on the Egyptian socio-economic and political conditions seven years post the 2011 revolution. Design/methodology/approach The authors depended on secondary data and information gathered from scholars and from domestic and international institutions as well. Additionally, the authors distributed 390 Likert-scale questionnaires among respondents to test their perceptions regarding the safety, social, political and economic conditions in Egypt seven years post the 2011 revolution. Findings The research findings confirmed that there was an agreement among participants that the safety conditions in Egypt improved during the past seven years post the 2011 revolution, and there was a general agreement among participants that the political conditions in Egypt became more stable lately. The economic and social cost presents a challenging status to the current decision maker. Practical implications Finally, authors came up with recommendations aiming to find solutions for certain economic and political problematic issues. The main research limitation is that the representative sample was confined only to the two main governorates in Egypt: Cairo and Giza. Originality/value Finally, the study is of a value, as it could be considered a road map to policy makers. Moreover, the findings provide a set of policies for governments to undertake tenable actions to accelerate development and economic growth.
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Carapico, Sheila. "Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt." American Journal of Islam and Society 13, no. 2 (July 1, 1996): 269–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v13i2.2321.
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Over the past five years or so, the considerable western interest inthe role played by nongovernmental voluntary associations in Egypt hasbeen reflected in a growing English-language literature on the subject.Researchers tackle the question from a range of perspectives.One approach, relatively state-centered and legalistic, focuses on howCairo manages to control, co-opt, or "corporatize" autonomous organizationsincluding labor and professional syndicates, agricultural and othercooperatives, and private not-for-profit groups. The principle tool for reiningin private voluntary and community associations is the notorious Law32 of 1964. Under Law 32, the Ministry of Social Affairs can interferedirectly in all aspect of associational life-articulation of goals, election ofofficers, pursuit of projects, allocation of funds, and so on. Among the wellknownsecular nonprofit groups with international linkages that have beendenied licenses from the Ministry are the Egyptian Organization of HumanRights and the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. In this legal and policymilieu, many scholars and human rights activists argue that no registeredassociation in Egypt can properly be deemed "nongovernmental."Other analysts, however, accept Cairo's position that the threat of radicalIslam justifies authoritarian restrictions on independent organizations.The second group of studies is inspired partly by these concerns over theradicalization of Islamist associations. Scholars familiar with social, economic, and political circumstances in the Nile Valley usually try to counteracthysterical mass media portraits of "Muslim terrorists" with inquiries intothe structure, function, membership, activities, and ideologies of a range ofIslamist institutions including welfare and charitable associations. The particularstrength of politicized Islam in the 1990s, this research suggests, restson the capacity of Islamist charities to provide a crucial layer of social servicesto a burgeoning, underemployed, increasingly impoverished population.Opinion is divided, however, on the question of whether this circumstancefavors containment and stability or frustration and insurrection.A third set of studies, sometimes overlooked by scholars, comes fromwithin the Cairo-based donor community, the "development practitioners" ...
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Ghonimi, Islam, and Ahmed Awaad. "SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS IN EGYPT: ASSESSING SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD MODELS IN GREATER CAIRO REGION." JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences 46, no. 2 (March 1, 2018): 160–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jesaun.2018.114463.
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Matthies-Boon, Vivienne, and Naomi Head. "Trauma as counter-revolutionary colonisation: Narratives from (post)revolutionary Egypt." Journal of International Political Theory 14, no. 3 (December 21, 2017): 258–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1755088217748970.
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We argue that multiple levels of trauma were present in Egypt before, during and after the 2011 revolution. Individual, social and political trauma constitute a triangle of traumatisation which was strategically employed by the Egyptian counter-revolutionary forces – primarily the army and the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood – to maintain their political and economic power over and above the social, economic and political interests of others. Through the destruction of physical bodies, the fragmentation and polarisation of social relations and the violent closure of the newly emerged political public sphere, these actors actively repressed the potential for creative and revolutionary transformation. To better understand this multi-layered notion of trauma, we turn to Habermas’ ‘colonisation of the lifeworld’ thesis which offers a critical lens through which to examine the wider political and economic structures and context in which trauma occurred as well as its effects on the personal, social and political realms. In doing so, we develop a novel conception of trauma that acknowledges individual, social and political dimensions. We apply this conceptual framing to empirical narratives of trauma in Egypt’s pre- and post-revolutionary phases, thus both developing a non-Western application of Habermas’ framework and revealing ethnographic accounts of the revolution by activists in Cairo.
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Ibrahim, J. "Psychatric morbidity among third year medical students at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)72249-0.
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BackgroundMental distress among medical students is often reported. Different psychiatric disorders are found to be under recognized yet common and treatable among medical students. Various previous studies have shown that medical students are subjected to considerable stress over the last decades. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of clinically significant psychiatric morbidity among third year medical students, to explore the effects of the socio demographic background for these outcomes and to analyze gender differences regarding selected psychiatric morbidities.MethodsA cross sectional study is carried out among third year medical students from Ain Shams University. They were assessed using Social Classification Scale and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID I) to assess psychiatric morbidity.ResultsResponse rate was 98.9%. Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among our medical students sample was 59.9%. No significant statistical association between psychological morbidity and any of the socio demographic variables. The most prevalent psychiatric diagnosis was found to be depression (47.9%), followed by Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) (44.9%) & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (44.4%). The least prevalent of which was Anorexia Nervosa (0.7%).ConclusionSignificantly high proportion of medical students (59.9%) had ongoing psychiatric condition and that proactive interventions should be addressed to encourage those medical students to seek help for their psychiatric problems. Counseling and preventive mental health services should be an integral part of the routine clinical facilities caring for medical students.
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Huffaker, Shauna. "Gendered Limitations on Women Property Owners: Three Women of Early Modern Cairo." HAWWA 10, no. 3 (2012): 127–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341234.
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AbstractWomen’s rights to be independent property owners in the pre-modern Islamic world can be overemphasized. This article explores the legal frameworks and social and familial customs that limited women’s ability to act as autonomous property owners in late Mamluk and early Ottoman Egypt. Three case studies of early modern women of different socio-economic status demonstrate how these limitations come into focus only when women’s ownership of property is tracked over the long term. These case studies and supporting material are drawn from sales and waqf endowment documents held at the Egyptian National Archives and the Archives of the Ministry of Religious Endowments.
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Hasan, Nael M., Nasser Loza, Ahmed El-Dosoky, Nayla Hamdi, Richard Rawson, Albert L. Hasson, and Mansour M. Shawky. "Characteristics of Clients With Substance Abuse Disorders in a Private Hospital in Cairo, Egypt." Journal of Muslim Mental Health 4, no. 1 (May 29, 2009): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564900902777827.
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Abaza, Mona. "Post January Revolution Cairo: Urban Wars and the Reshaping of Public Space." Theory, Culture & Society 31, no. 7-8 (September 30, 2014): 163–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276414549264.
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The metropolis of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented transformations since the January revolution of 2011. It witnessed evidently an escalation of war zones and confrontations between protesters and police forces; it also witnessed the militarization and policing of the urban sphere, the creation of segregating buffer walls that paralysed entire areas. However, the Tahrir effect remains evident in that it revolutionized the very notion of what a public space is about. It succeeded in imposing an entirely unprecedented novel choreography for the city in which the ‘stage’ of Tahrir was the exemplary moment that triggered extended and replicated dramaturgical violent public confrontations, public performances and occupations in all the squares of Egypt. This article traces the transformations in relation to the debates pertaining to the ‘right to the city’ relating to the expanding visibility of the street vendors. Despite the military taking over after the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo has witnessed for the past three years a mesmerizing flourishing art scene.
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MacLeod, Caroline Arbuckle, and Kathlyn M. Cooney. "The Layered Life of JE26204: the Construction and Reuse of the Coffins of Henuttawy." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 105, no. 2 (December 2019): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0307513320911383.
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In the Twenty-first Dynasty, ancient Egypt was facing a number of economic, political, and religious challenges and transformations. To compensate for a lack of imported resources and subsidized incomes, the Egyptian people were robbing and reusing the tombs of their predecessors. Royal coffins and mummies were collected by priests and placed in tomb caches, supposedly for their protection. In this article, the authors show how a detailed material analysis of the coffins in these caches can help reveal the social history of Egypt at this time. The coffins of Queen Henuttawy prove to be a combination of Eighteenth and Twenty-First Dynasty construction and decoration, and may provide insight into the actions of Third Intermediate Period priests. Following these pieces through to their modern excavation and display in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, it is evident that these objects continue to impact lives, acquiring additional layers of history and social significance.
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Salem, Alaa Ezzat Abdelkamel, Hassan Kamel, and Dalia Wageh. "The Impact of Green Urban Open Spaces on Enhancing Mental Health." International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology 10, no. 05 (October 31, 2021): 708–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.14741/ijcet/v.10.5.3.
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Scarcity of green public spaces not only could impair the livability and sustainability of cities but also would affect the public health, while there is potential benefit of green environments on mental health, it could be one of the great reasons of reducing depression and stress, many studies conducted during the last decade suggest the mental health benefits of green spaces , According to the World Health Organization, mental health promotion should include actions that create environments that support mental health and allow people to maintain healthy lifestyles, Given the increase in mental health problems and the ongoing massive urbanization, especially in developing countries, Evidence is growing for the beneficial impacts of natural outdoor environments on health. The general disproportion of urban development and the socio-economic crisis in Egypt followed by a number of acute and chronic stressors, as well as years of accumulated trauma, prevented the parallel physical, mental and social adaptation of society, in addition to a whole and continuous contraction of public green spaces in Cairo certainly affected the quality of mental health, increasing the absolute number of people with depression, stress and psychosomatic disorders.This paper aims to explore and document the development process of Merryland Park, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt with specific reference to the conflict between urban development, and mental health.
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Haque, Amber. "Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt." American Journal of Islam and Society 20, no. 2 (April 1, 2003): 126–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v20i2.1864.
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Although the debate on the arrival of the lslamization of knowledge (IOK)concept continues among today's scholars, giving it a practical frameworkis generally credited to the late Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, a PalestinianAmericanscholar and a founding member of the International Institute ofIslamic Thought (HIT). Mona Abaza, associate professor in the School ofHumanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo,acknowledges this. She took over 10 years to collect and present herresearch in this book. The book is divided into three parts with 14 chapters,a hefty 71 pages of notes and bibliography, and a small index. The facts andfigures about Malaysia covered in the initial pages are from mid-1998 andtherefore, unfortunately, are outdated.In the "introductory reflections," which constitute part 1 of the book,Abaza submits that the topic under discussion is controversial even amongMuslim academics. Nevertheless, she has set out to compare the IOK endeavorsin two very distinct cultures whose Islamizers, she believes, have a primarilysecular training but an Islamic outlook. While Malaysia propagates ...
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Lachenal, Perrine. "Beauty, the Beast, and the Baseball Bat: Ethnography of Self-Defense Training for Upper-Class Women in Revolutionary Cairo (Egypt)." Comparative Sociology 13, no. 1 (February 25, 2014): 58–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341294.
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AbstractJanuary 2011, Egypt: a huge revolutionary movement began. Since this moment, the perception of insecurity has clearly increased among the upper class. This feeling of vulnerability has opened the doors to new market opportunities related to personal security. In charming neighborhoods of Cairo, offers of self-defense training for women flourished. These training classes offer a valuable and fascinating ethnographic field for addressing the way emotional narratives shape social mobilizations. In class, self-defense participants confirm their shared social belonging while expressing feelings of anxiety in specific terms. Through the Egyptian case, I illustrate that anxiety constitutes a relevant analytical tool to better understand the social and emotional dynamics playing out in revolutionary societies.
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Abdel-Hadi, Aleya, Eman El-Nachar, and Heba Safieldin. "Residents' Perception of Home Range in Cairo." Open House International 36, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2011-b0007.
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Recent studies in the realm of housing design avow for the concept of Liveable Cities; an aspect which in turn, places emphasis on the concept of home range. The home range is regarded as the challenge to create a ‘near environment’ that is humanistic and fair, community-oriented and environmentally conscious; a relatively new conception towards responsive and sustainable environments for residents' well-being. Considering that socio-cultural needs in tandem with architectural and urban characteristics correspond to residents perspectives of their home environment; hence, understanding residents' perceptions of their home range should provide designers with deeper insights for creating more responsive residential environments. This study aimed at identifying aspects that contribute to shaping the residents' perception of their home range. The field study included two housing features within the same social class in Egypt with a focus on Cairo: residents of the city's original districts and immigrants of the city to newly suburban gated communities. The methodology was an in-depth qualitative study, exploratory in nature, based on a theoretical content analysis of literature on home range, and a field survey that investigated the residents' perception of the concept. Tools for data gathering relied on photographic and observation methods; together with a structured interview on a random sample in each of the two defined residential environments. Discussions relate findings to planning concepts, and finally, results have generated a framework for decision makers and designers.
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Ahmed, Manail Anis. "Outward Mobility of Saudi Students: An Overview." International Higher Education, no. 83 (December 2, 2015): 19–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2015.83.9084.
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Since 1927, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has continuously committed substantial sums of money—and corresponding amounts of energy and effort—into educating its citizens abroad. From the first six students to be sent to Cairo to acquire higher education, to the currently almost 200,000 students studying a wide variety of disciplines across the world, this phenomenon has come a long way indeed. In addition, due to a booming economy and high per capita income, many Saudi families can privately afford to send their wards of university age to study abroad. This article provides a brief survey of the latest figures released by the Saudi Ministry of (formerly Higher) Education with regard to Saudi students’ outward mobility, reviewing trends for scholarship and privately-funded students by destination country, field of study, and academic level. It also briefly examines the inclusion of large numbers of Saudi female students in this cohort, and the accompanying social and cultural implications of this trend on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Rayan, Eman Omar, Adla Mohamed Ragab, and Ashraf Samir Anwar. "Determinants of green job creation: an empirical investigation." International Journal of Social Economics 47, no. 7 (June 20, 2020): 887–911. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-01-2020-0012.
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PurposeThe twenty-first century manifests two of the challenging issues about achieving Sustainable Local Economic Development (SLED) and turning to environmental sustainability through Green Job Creation (GJC). The study examines that not only are both challenges are urgent, but they are also intimately linked and will have to be addressed together. It also finds out that further factors like Managerial Effectiveness (ME) and Public Policy Effectiveness (PPE) affect GJC.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses qualitative and quantitative methods by utilizing primary data collected through designing questionnaires answered by random executives and citizens of three governorates; Cairo, Alexandria and Beni-Suef. These governorates are chosen because they represent different Egyptian geographic areas, i.e. the capital of Egypt, lower and Upper Egypt, where there are numbers of industrial zones with many heavy polluting industrial activities that exist.FindingsThe study showed that there is a lack of effectiveness and efficiency in applying common international standards in GJC’s strategies in Cairo, Alexandria and Beni-Suef. Additionally, it is highly recommended that the three governorates enhance the exploitation of their economic resources. Quantitatively, the study showed a positive and statistically-significant connection between SLED and GJC, alongside with a positive and statistically-significant connection between ME and GJC.Originality/valueThe study provides empirical evidence about the main requirements in designing an efficient framework for achieving eco-friendly local economic activities and suggesting practical solutions to obstacles that face local strategies regarding the study’s variables.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2020-0012
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Harrison, Gail G., Zahar S. Zaghloul, Osman M. Galal, and Azza Gabr. "Breastfeeding and weaning in a poor urban neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt: Maternal beliefs and perceptions." Social Science & Medicine 36, no. 8 (April 1993): 1063–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(93)90124-m.
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