Fifty-one Egyptian women, from all social groups and classes, living in the greater Cairo region during 1993–94 were intensively and extensively interviewed to ascertain their conceptualization of female identity (“femininity”) as well as the status, rights, and roles of women i…
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Problem. Middle Egyptian has played an increasingly important role in Biblical Archaeology and Old Testament studies. Much of biblical chronology is closely connected to Egyptian chronology; many biblical events record Egyptian involvement, and some of these are included on Egyp…
Structural transformation and economic liberalization have been on the Egyptian policy agenda for over 20 years. However, the results have been mixed. Macroeconomic imbalances have been manageable in Egypt. Microeconomic distortion have been persistent, mainly lack of employment…
A basic problem for scholars in Egyptology concerns ancient Egyptian social organization. Some Egyptologists state that ancient Egyptian society was organized along matrilineal lines, while others argue that the ancient Egyptian society was organized along patrilineal fines. The…
Beginning with Great Britain's colonial takeover of Egypt's School of Medicine and adjoining hospital in 1893 until its return to Egyptian hands in 1929, this study examines how Anglo-Egyptian medical discourse constructed a trope of the “modern Egyptian woman.” By cautiously ap…
In this dissertation, I review the history of translation theories and then propose a new theory of translation, which I call "transformance." I use Bakhtinian dialogics as the theory's base and incorporate insights available from poststructuralism and deconstruction, postcoloni…
Academics have extensively studied the life trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Various research studies have explored their identity-negotiation processes by looking at their degree of assimilation and acculturation into their host countries and their transnational co…
Self-authorship has, in recent years, emerged as a leading theory in understanding cognitive, social and interpersonal development of undergraduate students, and how this process impacts learning. This mixed methods study explored the manifestations of self-authorship in Egyptia…
Education has played a critical role in the development of modern Egypt. Indeed, it has become a microcosm of Egyptian society, politics and culture--a stage in which Egypt has struggled to preserve and sustain its cultural integrity. Both external and internal forces continue t…
This dissertation examines modern Arab Muslim literature on 'religious Others' from the overlapping perspectives of Islamic Studies, History of Religions, and Western hermeneutic philosophy. The broad basis for our analysis encompasses over four hundred books on religions other …
The role of British officials from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the Military Administration of British-occupied Palestine during and after World War I is examined. Particular focus is given to the administrative structures, personnel, and concerns faced by this Occupied Enemy Ter…
The ancient Egyptians and Dogon conceive that all elements of the universe operate in harmony. Therefore, the manner in which the Egyptians and Dogon express and experience their cosmologies must agree with this harmony. Using an African-centered approach, this study examines th…
This study examines the Egyptian “colonial” presence in Early Bronze I Palestine. The emerging role of the Egyptian state in the enforcement of social and cultural boundaries is an important focus of this research. The pottery analysis in this study and review of publications ha…
Ceramic vessels decorated with the image of the Egyptian god Bes were widely disseminated throughout the ancient Near East, from Nubia in the south, through Upper, Middle and Lower Egypt, and northward to sites in Syria and Palestine, and even as far east as Persepolis in modern…
This study prospectively examined the injury patterns of Egyptian national team athletes for five months. The athletes were members of Egyptian Federation coactive teams participating in men's and women's fencing, weightlifting, and martial arts, and men's wrestling. The purpose…
Ontological and metaphysical issues are rarely associated with theatre because theatre emphasizes performance while questions of Being have been addressed primarily by philosophical inquiry. But philosophy and literature have traditionally intersected, because the meaning of exi…
For 90 years Celticists have known of a long list of features whereby Insular Celtic syntax deviates from the Indo-European norm, but agrees with Semitic, Egyptian, and/or Berber (hereafter "Mediterranean Hamito-Semitic"). Such features include VSO macrotype, conjugated preposit…
The Egyptian vulture sign has, long over a century, been ambiguously presumed by most egyptologists as Hebrew aleph (ℵ) or laryngeal (?) with the conventional pronunciation as the vowel /a/. While there is no question regarding the occurrence of lateral /L/ in Coptic, a direct d…
The Internet news medium has immense potential to restructure the existing media regime in Egypt. Online news sites offer new patterns for the production and consumption of media content and function as communication spaces in realms which lie beyond existing social and politica…