The specific nature of the Appeal to the living texts in ancient Egypt is investigated from the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom. A data set has been collected of some 294 Appeal texts divided chronologically into (1) Old Kingdom (45 texts), (2) First Intermediate Period (47 …
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This study investigated the effect of journal writing as a communicative technique on written performance, writing apprehension, perceived sense of writing abilities, and attitudes of Egyptian EFL English majors. It also explored the relationship between L1 (Arabic) and L2 (Engl…
This study deals with Ancient Egyptian and Yoruba of West Africa, an enduring historical problem in African historiography. This dissertation builds upon Lucas's book (Lucas 1948). The central argument of Lucas's book is that Yoruba originated from Ancient Egypt. A lot of Africa…
This dissertation approaches the question of modernity in two ways. The first treats the dynamics of exchange between history and literature with reference to the question of representation as it intersects with modernity, the emergence of literary modernism, and Third World nat…
The Book of the Earth belongs to the genre of ancient Egyptian compositions known as "Underworld Books," depicting the locales and beings encountered by the sun god during his nightly travels. The Book of the Earth was employed exclusively in royal burial chambers during Egypt's…
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…
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…
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 study examined cross-cultural differences in self-concept among female university students Americans—one group and Egyptians—two groups. Participants either attended an American university in Egypt or an Egyptian university. The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale and the PRF Andr…
Writing a history of the development of the ancient Egyptian mind, wrote the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt a century and a half ago, "is an impossibility." While the ancient Egyptian civilization came to an end thousands of years ago, traces of their environment, art, archite…
In the 1960s, a number of scholars tested Lerner's theory that a "revolution of rising frustration" was being triggered by the mass media because the economic reality of the audience did not match what they were being exposed to in those media. Because the potential for revoluti…
The problem that I investigated is what are the conventionalized utterances used in Egyptian films of the post-revolutionary period from 1953 to 1961? What can we learn about Egyptian society, and especially about social class, at that time from these films and the language used…
It has been assumed that paid work leads to a greater autonomy for women. This dissertation focuses on how education and employment relate to different dimensions of autonomy. Four dimensions of autonomy are discussed. They are economic decision making, ability to take care of s…
In this dissertation, I analyze post-dispersion literary texts--writings by and about Egyptian Jews composed in Hebrew, Arabic, and English between the 1950s and the 1990s--to show how "Levantine" Egyptian Jews disrupt the local/foreign and colonizer/colonized binaries that have…
The result of intercultural interactions, in particular the case of individuals traveling to another country for a certain period of time, often leads to intercultural stress, commonly referred to as culture shock. This is due to the changes in the environment, the differences b…
This dissertation is about the rise of the mass media in Egypt and its implications for the representation and production of gender between 1920 and 1955. It argues that the proliferation of Arabic language newspapers and magazines after WWI played an important role not only in …