International schools have increased dramatically in number in order to meet the demands of a globally mobile expatriate workforce, and while this proliferation has taken place, there has also been a slow but steady transformation of international education from comparative nati…
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This research examined news production at Egyptian newspapers with the aim of providing a model of the Egyptian newspaper system that can be compared and contrasted with other national and global press systems. The study focused on major daily newspapers representing the range o…
This study is about zar spirit possession as practiced in Cairo, mostly by Muslim women. The research is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork. The word zar has two meanings. It refers to a number of spirits which have the capacity to afflict humans with physical and psyc…
This dissertation is an ethnography about the making of communal spaces among southern (or Christian, African-oriented) Sudanese displaced in Muslim Arab Cairo, Egypt. Exploring the nature of refugee domains, this dissertation features portraits of refugee communal spaces and re…
This dissertation examines the diasporic lives of two groups of Somalis in Cairo: refugees and citizens of Western countries (émigrés). The former are refugees who either lived in other Middle Eastern countries before relocating to Cairo in the late nineties, or arrived from the…
When Islam was half as old it is today, Egypt was swept by mass conversions that irrevocably altered its religious history and demographic composition. In the early 8th/14th century, unprecedented pressures delivered a final blow to the Coptic Christian community's hitherto priv…
This edition, translation, and analysis of the Martyrdom of John of Phanijoit demonstrates how the text functions as a polemical response of Coptic Christians to their own community's assimilation to Islam in the thirteenth century. Sociological analysis reveals this martyrdom's…
This study investigates writings about "people of blights" ( ahl al-'ahat in Arabic) - a category that included physically different, disabled and ill individuals - that circulated among a group of Muslim male scholars connected by the social bonds of friendship and academic men…
Many scholars have discussed the relationship between architecture and music. Design methodologies have been created to highlight this intersection, attempting to attain the sublime. While architecture theorists have used western music as a foundation, this thesis aims to invest…
This dissertation examines architectural patronage under the third Egyptian Fatimid caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 386-411/996-1021). The reign of this "psychotic" ruler represents a controversial, yet pivotal moment in the history of sectarian relations in the Islamic world.…
This dissertation presents a much needed theoretical framework for the study of the potential impact of environmental design on the residentially based local community. Through an assessment of the current state of the literature, the major problems impeding the progress of this…
Through the evidence of the court records (sijill s), this dissertation examines the interplay between Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh ), codified sultanic law (qanun ) and customary law in the shari`a courts of Ottoman-Cairo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The thesis fo…
My dissertation investigates the articulation and dissemination of radicalism in and between Beirut, Cairo and Alexandria in the late 19th and early 20th century. It argues that there existed a deep connection between the brand of radicalism that emerged in these cities, its dis…
This dissertation discusses the Sultan H[dotbelow]asan Complex in Cairo, 1357-1364, one of the most significant examples of Mamluk architecture. The focus of the study is on the architecture and decoration of the Complex in its historical, urban and stylistic context. It suggest…
The merchants recorded in the Cairo Geniza appear to be perfectly situated to carry on cosmopolitan trade throughout the Mediterranean and Islamic Asia. From their center in the Egyptian capital, family ties connected them from Spain to Persia, while Jewish religious authority r…
In Cairo and Damascus, the Ahl al-bayt are commemorated in a variety of shrines and mosques, small and large, old and of recent date. Many of these shrines and mosques are still standing and are being used today; some have been lost and others are neglected or in ruins. My disse…
Women's access to micro credit has increased substantially worldwide. International organizations, non-governmental organizations, commercially-oriented institutions and governments support the proliferation of micro credit programs through diverse funding arrangements, and spec…