Caïro

The Routledge companion to the suburbs

0 Type: Book

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of t…

Global dreams: class, gender, and public space in cosmopolitan C…

by Koning, Anouk de

0 Type: Book

"At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving cafe latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated c…

Background: Many women continue to experience health inequalities in the Middle East. Gender roles and cultural norms of the region place women in a marginalized position resulting in isolation and disconnection from society and the information or resources within the society in…

This dissertation examines the specific forms of embodied suffering war and its refugee aftermath brings to female Sudanese refugees currently living in post-revolution Cairo, Egypt in order to illustrate the suffering and healing enacted within everyday life. These women, displ…

This dissertation is a study of dispute resolution in Ottoman Cairo during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. When engaged in disputes over property, domestic obligations, anti-social behaviour, insults, thefts and assaults, Cairenes had at their disposal a range of formal …

Officially, over 43% of the Egyptian population lives in urban areas, posing a real challenge to meet people's needs in this predominantly arid environment, especially considering that only around 6% of Egypt's land is populated (CAPMAS, 2016; MHUUC, 2012). The official data und…

Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature: portraits of Cairo

by Naaman, Mara

0 Type: Book

"This book is an examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement. It is through the lens of literature, in this …

In the post-9/11 era, over a hundred theatric performances exploring the fallout from the “war on terror” have been staged in Cairo, London, and New York. Though never discussed in relation to one another, the works from major cultural centers on three continents provide valuabl…

While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black…

Many urban and industrial areas suffer from high levels of coarse particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5). In order to evaluate the health impacts of particulate matter and develop effective pollutant abatement strategies, one needs to know the source contr…

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a qualitative phenomenological study with the intention to explain, explore, and determine the factors that lead to the emergence of women as leaders in Egypt. Accomplishing this investigation required the assessment of how participants pe…

I investigate the social history of Egypt under British imperial occupation through the lens of morality in order to understand the contestation of cultural change and authority under empire. Points of cultural cleavage between European and local inhabitants in British-occupied …

This explanatory study examined the external influences in a black box model that affects the ex-pay television subscribers' decision-making process, and caused them to disconnect the pay television service. These external influences: culture, reference groups, family, and produ…

Developing Arab Music is an exploration of how musical change has been and continues to be discussed and implemented by 20 th- and early 21st-century musical innovators, educators, and performers in Cairo, Egypt. The first part of the thesis traces the establishment of instituti…

This dissertation introduces a heuristic model that can contribute to a better understanding of the nature of urban transformation in globalizing Middle Eastern cities. It primarily aims to explain the new trends of urban development that are occurring in these cities. New types…