Egyptian

This study aims at a preliminary investigation of the syntax of four Arabic dialect areas: Morocco, Egypt, Syria and Kuwait. The investigation focuses on certain syntactic features that vary from dialect to dialect, and whose linguistic analysis presents particular problems not …

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 …

Drawing on a holistic critical paradigm of ecological sustainability, this study examined the role of teacher educators in environmental education in the Faculty of Education of one Egyptian university. The study sought to critically and collaboratively explore with a sample of …

My dissertation, a study of the civil service in Gaza during the British Mandate and the Egyptian Administration, investigates processes through which people and places are constituted, controlled, and governed. Conceiving of 'government' as a process of legal, social, and moral…

In Egypt, during the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, older, fragmented, and more localized forms of identity were rapidly replaced with new alternative concepts of community, which for the first time, had the capacity to collectively encompass the majority of Egyptian…

This study proposes a new way of reading Arabic political discourse. Taking the issue of democracy in contemporary Egypt as the central problem, the study examines selected instances of public discourse from 1999-2000, including speeches by President Mubarak, a petition by oppos…

This dissertation examines works of Egyptian authors produced during the period of the 1960s to 1980s that challenge the model of socially committed literature (al-adab al-multazim in Arabic) established in the first half of the twentieth century. I argue that by inverting the p…

The goal of the present research project was to explore the ways in which the "psychiatric patient" in Egypt is constructed through discourse represented by inpatient medical records. The specific aim was to understand how western psychiatry and psychiatric practices are adapted…

This study is an attempt to ascertain the degree to which occupied and occupier can truly understand each other. The focus is Egypt between 1882 and 1919. This work attempts to ascertain how a whole host of Egyptians of various outlooks perceived the British Empire that had rece…