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1 September 2010
Published by: IDS
Thisarticle speculates on whether the quota for women in the Egypt parliament will challenge power hierarchies within and among parties.
1 September 2010
Published by: IDS
This paper examines how advocacy, a highly political concept became a depoliticised technocratic buzzword for many donors, international and local NGOs.
1 June 2010
Published by: Earthscan
The final part of the chapter describes the unfolding waste disposal crisis in Cairo as a direct outcome of the culling policy. It...
5 March 2010
Published by: Middle East Research and Information Project
It appears, therefore, that the Nag‘ Hammadi murders were part of a pattern of sectarian incidents characterized by two important features: first, a crime attributed to a Christian is answered with collective punishment of all Coptic citizens in the area and second, state security is lax in containing vigilantism.
1 March 2010
Published by: Freedom House
This chapter in the 2010 Freedom House Report on Women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa details the situation of women in Egypt.
2 January 2010
This report is based on qualitative research undertaken between February and April 2010 in one rural and one urban community in each of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Yemen and Zambia.
1 January 2010
Published by: Routledge
Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'.
1 January 2010
1 January 2009
Published by: BRILL
This paper argues that religious affiliation (and not just gender) influences the hierarchy of rights attainable through Personal Status...
1 January 2009
Although some contemporary Egyptian studies have broached aspects of the relationship between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the regime,...