The Non-Muslim Other: Gender and Contestation of Hierarchy of Rights
Published by: BRILL
This paper argues that religious affiliation (and not just gender) influences the hierarchy of rights attainable through Personal Status...
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Published by: BRILL
This paper argues that religious affiliation (and not just gender) influences the hierarchy of rights attainable through Personal Status...
Although some contemporary Egyptian studies have broached aspects of the relationship between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the regime,...
Published by: Contestations
Orientalist discourses may be ripe, but in many contexts, feminists are also practicing self-censorship where critiques of the religious in the political are concerned, out of fear of being hounded upon as being traitors.
Published by: IDS
This paper examines the US government's support for introducing advocacy amongst Egyptian NGOs, and the inherent tensions for donors backing a politicised form of development that clashes with their foreign policy.
Published by: IDS
This article examines pathways to intergenerational transmission of gender values, norms and ideology with a particular focus on contexts where there is a strong intersection between gender and poverty.
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin reflects, as the first in the 40th anniversary volume, on some of the core areas of research and policy advocacy that are central to IDS’ work: inequalities, poverty, power, social protection, transformational education, HIV/AIDS, gender and climate change.
Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Egyptian women have not retreated from activism altogether. Women workers were the first to strike and female students have been just as active and defiant as their male counterparts. A significant proportion of the property tax workers participating in the sit-ins were women; even the Bedouin women of Sinai have risen to demand freedom for their family members incarcerated after terrorist bombings in 2004. But women have been less active on behalf of explicitly feminist causes.
Published by: Routledge
This article argues that Egypt's implementation of an economic reform and structural adjustment programme since 1991 has not led to a reduction of its hegemony over certain welfare services. Yet its role in the provision of free health and educational services has been drastically curtailed.
Published by: BRILL
Egypt is one of the largest recipients of foreign aid in the world and the second largest recipient of aid from USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in the world (after Israel) – the largest, in fact, if military aid is excluded.
Published by: BRILL
Because of a decline in employment opportunities in the public sector and limited opportunities in the private sector, the informal sector has become a refuge for many workers.