Vicissitudes in the Coptic Church-State in Egypt
Although some contemporary Egyptian studies have broached aspects of the relationship between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the regime,...
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Although some contemporary Egyptian studies have broached aspects of the relationship between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the regime,...
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: 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: 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: Agence Française de Développement
Published by: Springer
Are migrants able to use the migration experience to their benefit, that is to improve their livelihoods, and is this result nuanced by...
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
There are no available gender disaggregated data on the percentage of men's versus women's businesses.
Published by: BRILL
Under the adoption of an open-market economy system, the government has actively sought to promote the private sector as the engine for growth, especially by increasing employment.