Background: Many women continue to experience health inequalities in the Middle East. Gender roles and cultural norms of the region place women in a marginalized position resulting in isolation and disconnection from society and the information or resources within the society in…
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This dissertation examines the specific forms of embodied suffering war and its refugee aftermath brings to female Sudanese refugees currently living in post-revolution Cairo, Egypt in order to illustrate the suffering and healing enacted within everyday life. These women, displ…
Neoplastic intervention is derived from the medical term of neoplasm, which is an abnormal growth that continues to grow and evolve after the initial stimuli ceases. Architecturally, this neoplastic intervention at a more localized region will serve as scaffolding to catalyze re…
Officially, over 43% of the Egyptian population lives in urban areas, posing a real challenge to meet people's needs in this predominantly arid environment, especially considering that only around 6% of Egypt's land is populated (CAPMAS, 2016; MHUUC, 2012). The official data und…
This dissertation examines the talk about everyday conflict of 26 American women and 26 English-speaking Egyptian women who lived in the vicinity of Ma'adi, Cairo, Egypt in 1995. Two questions provided the primary focus of the research: (1) Are there distinctive American and Egy…
This thesis is a new study of the mosque of Ibn Tulun, which was built in 265 A.H./868 A.D., as it was created and as it developed over the centuries. It examines the mosque from a bibliographical, topographical, and architectural point of view, focusing on the architecture itse…
Many urban and industrial areas suffer from high levels of coarse particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5). In order to evaluate the health impacts of particulate matter and develop effective pollutant abatement strategies, one needs to know the source contr…
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a qualitative phenomenological study with the intention to explain, explore, and determine the factors that lead to the emergence of women as leaders in Egypt. Accomplishing this investigation required the assessment of how participants pe…
This work is about boundaries in architecture. It explores the order of producing boundaries (or borders) in contemporary buildings in Egypt. In this work, I understand a border to be a space that lies between various social domains and in which these domains—divergent overlappi…
The 20th century has come to an end on a city that has witnessed dramatic and sometimes violent shifts during its long history. During the past century, specifically in the latter half, Cairo, Egypt's capital and its largest city, underwent radical waves of transformation. Three…
This dissertation examines the rise of consumerism, and in particular, the development of the Egyptian woman as a housewife and consumer from 1863 to 1922. My focus is on middle to upper class urban women, mainly in Cairo and Alexandria. I examine the ways in which both the educ…
In the post-9/11 era, over a hundred theatric performances exploring the fallout from the “war on terror” have been staged in Cairo, London, and New York. Though never discussed in relation to one another, the works from major cultural centers on three continents provide valuabl…
While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black…
I investigate the social history of Egypt under British imperial occupation through the lens of morality in order to understand the contestation of cultural change and authority under empire. Points of cultural cleavage between European and local inhabitants in British-occupied …
The phenomenon of street children is world-wide and on the increase despite numerous programs aiming at its eradication. The failure to adequately address this complex and very diverse phenomenon is the result of conceptual confusion with respect to defining who a street child i…
This study is an analysis of the social construction of ethnicity among two groups of Muslim Arab Sudanese in modern-day Cairo: long term expatriates who immigrated to Egypt in the 1940s and recently arrived exiles fleeing political and economic upheaval in Sudan. The study is b…
Architects, environmental researchers, and managers of work environments are increasingly interested in the relationship between the physical conditions in offices and organizational productivity and employees' satisfaction. For the past 30 years their quests to determine this r…
This thesis examines the topographical development of the major artery of the city of Cairo, the Shāri` al-A`zam, throughout its history from the beginning of the Fatimid period in 969 AD to the end of the Mamluk period in 1517 AD. The thesis focuses on the section of the street…