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Masculinities in Egypt and the Arab World
While reflecting upon the Arab Spring, the essays in this collection cover several themes that include utilizing the concept of hegemonic masculinity in productive ways, the role …
Law as a Tool for Empowering Women within Marital Relations: A Case Study of Paternity Lawsuits in Egypt
How do women use courts within the context of paternity lawsuits? This study analyzes the challenges that the formal legal approach to empowering women faces once it is translated …
Humanist Perspectives on Sacred Space
While sacred spaces cannot be narrowed down to particular forms or meanings, they do in their meanings and functions express fundamental values and principles, and in doing so, …
Cairo Modern
The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each …
The Role of Local Councils in Empowerment and Poverty Reduction
Examining the link between poverty, participation, and local administration in three Egyptian governorates - Alexandria, Kafr al-Sheikh, and Assiut - Solava Ibrahim argues that an …
The Church in the Square
In the wake of the 25 January 2011 popular uprisings, youth and leaders from the Kasr el Dobara Evangelical Church, the largest Protestant congregation in the Middle East, situated …
Planning Egypt's New Settlements
This study critically analyzes the paradigms and practices of planning in Egypt since 1952. It interrogates the politics of national and physical planning while tracing the ideas …
Anthropology in Egypt 1900-1967
Anthropology as a discipline came to Egypt around 1900, as foreign anthropologists reported home on the culture they found. Gradually the intellectual approach was influenced by …
Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East
This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the …
The Employment Crisis of Female Graduates in Egypt: An Ethnographic Account
This study argues that the labor market favors graduates who speak foreign languages and have the style and disposition of the elite, a preference that puts female graduates …
Femininity and Dance in Egypt: Embodiment and Meaning in al-Raqs al-Baladi
Considering the paradoxical position of al-raqs al-baladi or “belly dance” in Egyptian social life, as both a vibrant and a contested cultural form, this issue of Cairo Papers in …
Creating Families Across Boundaries
This title is part of "Cairo Papers in Social Science" series. Based on unstructured interviews with thirteen Romanian-Egyptian couples presently living in Cairo, this study …