On Friendship Between the No Longer and the Not Yet: An Ethnographic Account

Soha Mohsen

• Paperback | Engels | Cairo Papers in Social Science
• An ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians There is a great deal to be said about ide... Lees meer

Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers

Mostafa Mohie

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• A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices of both dwellers and the stat... Lees meer

Femininity and Dance in Egypt: Embodiment and Meaning in Al-Raqs Al-Baladi

Noha Roushdy

• Paperback | Engels | Cairo Papers in Social Science | nr. 32
• 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, t... Lees meer

Sports and Society in the Middle East

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• The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on thi... Lees meer

International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

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• A multilayered, multidisciplinary examination of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region during two centuries This issue of Cairo Papers takes up t... Lees meer

Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground

Ellen R Weis

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• A study of rap in Egypt as a multi-layered form of expression This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists w... Lees meer

Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Farah Kobaissy

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• A study of workers' rights in a non-unionized field in Lebanon This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting... Lees meer

The Political Economy of the New Egyptian Republic

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• A collection of studies looking at social and political changes following Egypt's 2011 Revolution Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the ... Lees meer

The Food Question in the Middle East

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• A new collection of essays on food production and distribution in the Arab world and their sociocultural and political implications In recent years, t... Lees meer

Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema: A State Venture

Tamara Chahine Maatouk

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• Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema In 1957 the public sector in Egyptian cinema was established, foll... Lees meer

Planning Egypt's New Settlements: The Politics of Spatial Inequities

Dalia Wahdan

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• This study critically analyzes the paradigms and practices of planning in Egypt since 1952. It interrogates the politics of national and physical plan... Lees meer

Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries

• Paperback | Engels | Cairo Papers in Social Science | nr. 29
• This monograph centers on the effort to understand the issue of return migration to Palestine from a sociological point of view. Six papers examine va... Lees meer

Anthropology in Egypt, 1900-67: Culture, Function, and Reform

Nicholas S Hopkins

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• Anthropology as a discipline came to Egypt around 1900, as foreign anthropologists reported home on the culture they found. Gradually the intellectual... Lees meer

Political and Social Protest in Egypt

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• Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th ann... Lees meer

Law as a Tool for Empowering Women Within Marital Relations: A Case Study of Paternity Lawsuits in Egypt

Hind Ahmed Zaki

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• How do women use courts within the context of paternity lawsuits? This study analyzes the challenges that the formal legal approach to empowering wome... Lees meer

IMF–Egyptian Debt Negotiations

Bessma Momani

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• Assesses the modus operandi of debt negotiations between Egypt and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), using the four agreements of 1987, 1991, 199... Lees meer

Child Protection Policies in Egypt: A Rights-Based Approach

Adel Azer, Sohair Mehanna, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Essam Ali

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• This study seeks to provide a critical analysis of child protection policies in Egypt and examine whether these policies are based on the rights-based... Lees meer

The Employment Crisis of Female Graduates in Egypt: An Ethnographic Account

Ghada F. Barsoum

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• This study argues that the labor market favors graduates who speak foreign languages and have the style and disposition of the elite, a preference tha... Lees meer

Humanist Perspectives on Sacred Space

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• While sacred spaces cannot be narrowed down to particular forms or meanings, they do in their meanings and functions express fundamental values and pr... Lees meer

The Experience of Protest: Masculinity and Agency Among Sudanese Refugees in Cairo

Martin Timothy Rowe

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• In the autumn of 2005, a group of young male Sudanese refugees organized a protest against the policies of the UNHCR in Cairo. Using the protest as a ... Lees meer

Agrarian Transformation in the Arab World: Persistent and Emerging Challenges

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• This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urg... Lees meer

Masculinities in Egypt and the Arab World: Historical, Literary, and Social Science Perspectives

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• While reflecting upon the Arab Spring, the essays in this collection cover several themes that include utilizing the concept of hegemonic masculinity ... Lees meer

Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Egypt

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• From the politics of food to images in the media, this double issue of Cairo Papers in Social Science focuses on a wide array of emerging cultural pat... Lees meer

Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East

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• This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, "Sights of Knowledge: Debates abou... Lees meer