Scholarly discussion of tourism's role in modern Egypt is commonly reflected as a byproduct of orientalism and Egyptomania. While this is true, tourism's relationship with colonialism in the early twentieth century is underrepresented in scholarship. Modern tourism's origins in …
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This thesis examines the role of civil society in Egypt and argues that it was central to the success of the 2011 revolution that ended in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. I will discuss the development of civil society under Mubarak and demonstrate its strength. In unders…
This dissertation examines the representation of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamāl al-Ghītānī, Muhammad al-Bisāt ̇ī, ‘Abd al-Hakīm Qāsim, Bahā’ Tāhir, Yahya Tāhir ‘Abdallah, Ibrāhīm Aslān, and Sun‘allah Ibr…
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This dissertation examines a topic which is relatively new in Islamic history: the history of poverty. It seeks to answer three questions: what was it like to be poor in Cairo during the Mamluk period, how did medieval Muslim thinkers understand poverty, and how did Cairene soci…
This study evaluates the impact of women's decision making power and attitudes about themselves in Egypt on three dimensions of child health: stunting, wasting and underweight. This study seeks to understand how women's perceived decision making power and self-perception affect …
This study's research question raises the issue of the paradoxical nature of the Egyptian canon of representation which shows, simultaneously, a certain rigidity in the application of established stylistic and iconographic rules, especially in non-state commissioned art, and evi…
Human body size and limb proportions can provide important information about adaptation, population movements, and health disparities. This study investigated changes in body size and limb proportions of adult Egyptians temporally and geographically in relation to climatological…
This dissertation explores the ethics and norms associated with contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt as a contribution to the institutional study of ancient contract and its relationship to the economic history of the Roman world. Although ancient contracts in the Hellenisti…
Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of ov…
This dissertation focuses on the dissemination and use of texts originally used in royal pyramids during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom. As late as the reign of Unas (ca. 2375-2345 BCE), the prominent priesthood at Memphis undertook the task of fixing these…
Introduction : The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a public health concern that impacts both developing and developed countries alike. The World Health Organization estimates that currently 130-150 million people worldwide are chronically infected; Egypt has the highest prevalence in…
Many scholars have enthusiastically looked for ways to improve informal housing conditions in Cairo, Egypt. Some of them called for policy upgrading, architectural improvements, budget allocation, and sustainable development. By connecting different sectors together to serve the…
In Egypt, pharmaceutical prices are set by the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP). For decades, the ministry used a cost-plus method to set prices. This method has been criticized as being inflexible as it does not account for inflation or the currency exchange rate's fluc…
Previous research revealed that Egyptian learners of French as a foreign language who will be the future teachers of French in Egypt produce numerous errors repetitively during oral productions. While this lack of accuracy can be attributed to a cohort of factors (number of stud…
This dissertation uses Habermas's concept of the public sphere to explore the impact of alternative and citizen media, especially blogs, in Egypt. It examines the dynamic relationship between politics and media in Egypt to better understand the role of new media and blogs in thi…
This dissertation argues that the nature, scope, and larger implications of the interregional interaction between Kermans and Egypt during the Classic Kerma / Second Intermediate Periods can be reconstructed by analyzing the use of Egyptian and Egyptianizing material culture con…
Octavian's capture of Egypt in 30 B.C. brought an end to Ptolemaic rule and marked the beginning of Roman control of a province which would become one of the most important sources of grain and other material goods within the empire. As in other provinces, Roman officials tried …
The main goal of this study was to achieve a qualitative understanding of the use and influence of Twitter communication during the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. By charting the physical map of the information-spreading that occurred through the Twitter platform during the protests, …