Hospitals in Egypt are approaching a time of change during which they will be required to assess their roles and the way they function as organizations. Health sector reform initiatives requiring greater autonomy and accountability are being pushed by international donors and in…
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The Coptic Orthodox Church was established in the United States in early 1960s. At any local church there is among its congregation two subgroups: Egyptian and American Copt subgroups. The variance of cultural/religious practices of the two subgroups creates a dissonance between…
What is spectacle? How does performance spectacle reflect the ethos of a locale, a region, a nation? This dissertation compares the life experiences and performance spectacles of two regionally distinct Egyptian performance communities from their respective local markets and rol…
The last two decades have witnessed an increasing interest in the study of women in the Ancient Near East. Several academic institutions have integrated the subject into their curriculum, and one can even consult related Internet sites such as DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of…
Egypt is highly endemic for viral hepatitis C and E (HCV and HEV). The main objective of this prospective study was to examine the Epidemiology of HCV and HEV in women of child-bearing years and their children in rural Egypt. The specific aims were: (1) to quantify incidence and…
This dissertation examines the quixotic attempt of the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1601/2–1680) to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. Kircher's hieroglyphic studies are best understood as the offspring of an encounter between Renaissance occult philosophy and antiquarianism, …
An explanatory Theory must answer an explanation-seeking “why” question concerning a “what”; e.g. why did a State develop in the Nile valley? Acceptable theories covering Egypt or anthropological theories applicable to the area do not exist. A theory consists of a general regula…
The corpus of Napatan inscriptions studied here comprises the monumental royal texts written in Egyptian hieroglyphs which date from the end of Nubian domination of Egypt in the mid-seventh century B.C. to the reign of Nestasen in the second half of the fourth century B.C. The N…
The ancient Egyptian terms [special characters omitted] and nt-` commonly are understood as being technical terms pertaining to the performance of cultic rituals. In using these terms to study ritual in ancient Egypt, a problem arises in that these terms are not always translate…
In 1947, a number of papyri from Egypt were bequeathed to the Brooklyn Museum of Art by the family of the American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour. Wilbour had acquired these papyri in Egypt between 1881 and 1896, the year of his death. Among them was pBrooklyn 47.218.49, a p…
The unique puzzle to be solved in this research effort was to use the concept of philomythy as a tool to ascertain how a central set of Kemetic (Egyptian) ideas were disseminated to Greece from Kemet (Egypt). The research effort defined philomythy in the context of philosophy to…
This thesis examines the effect of the Indian nationalist movement on the Egyptian nationalist movement. The central argument of this work is that the Egyptian nationalist movement was consciously inter-nationalist, in that the nationalist activists were not only seeking an end …
Background. Tobacco use is on the rise in developing countries. One such country is Egypt, which has the highest rate of smoking in the developing Arab world (33.5% are daily smokers, of which 19.6% are under 15 years). Understanding the correlates of smoking behavior among Egyp…
This dissertation compares the action of Moses in Exodus 32 with the Egyptian execration ritual for cursing enemies of the Pharaoh. The act of Moses in breaking the tablets of the Ten Commandments is interpreted as an attempt on Moses' part to curse the people for their idolatry…
This dissertation presents a comparative study of Turkish and Egyptian education between 1910 and 1952, focusing on the dissemination of state-supported conceptions of nationalism, regime loyalty, civic virtue, and the social order appropriate to modernizing societies. I do this…
This dissertation is based on thirty-seven Arabic papyrus letters dating from between A.D. 730 and 750 written and related to `Abd Allah b. As`ad, a Muslim administrator and merchant in the south-western Fayyum oasis in Egypt. Unique in its extent and composition, these letters …
This dissertation examines the discourse of Egyptian newspaper advertisements, and describes its particular linguistic characteristics. The study is timely because of contemporary developments in Egypt, as the economy is becoming increasingly privatized and hence advertising nee…
In forming wh-questions, Egyptian Arabic (EA) exhibits apparent optional wh-movement whereby both options of fronting the wh-phrase or leaving it in situ are possible. I argue in this dissertation that optionality in EA wh-question formation does not contradict minimalist assump…
This dissertation examines recent bioethical debates around organ transplantation based on fieldwork (2001-2004) in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Tanta, and Mansoura. Efforts to initiate a national organ transplant program have consistently failed in the Egyptian Parliament for …