Cairo Papers emerged in 1977, when a group of scholars in the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Social Research Center at AUC developed the idea of the journal. The aim was to produce a monograph series dedicated not only to demonstrate the relevance of Middle Eastern social science vis-à-vis Western theoretical orientations but also to share with dedicated Western scholars the fruits of indigenous research into issues and problems of differential development in the Middle East. The founding members of the Cairo Papers included Profs. Tim Sullivan, Ali Dessouki, Mark Kennedy, Nicholas Hopkins and Asaad Nadim.

Cairo Papers in Social Science is the American University in Cairo’s long-running English-language journal monograph, published by the American University in Cairo Press.

  • A key feature of Cairo Papers is interdisciplinarity, best reflected in the diversity of the research published—spanning the fields of political science, economics, sociology, and anthropology, as well as history, journalism, media studies, gender studies, law, arts, and psychology.
  • Located in Cairo, Egypt, Cairo Papers’ scope is the production of critical social science and humanities knowledge in and about the Middle East.
  • Cairo Papers is committed to promoting emerging scholars in the region mainly through publications and workshops.
  • One of Cairo Papers’ missions is to foster the international circulation of knowledge produced in the region by Arabic-speaking scholars and from outlets with limited access to international circuits of the print economy.
  • Cairo Papers is dedicated to publishing and debating knowledge produced through original field-based research that is innovative in its methodologies, creative in its questions, and rigorous in its use of conceptual paradigms.
  • Cairo Papers provides a critical venue for engaging with timely events emerging in the region from a critical academic and interdisciplinary perspective.

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Book Chapters from 1983

Planning Recommendations for Children and Youth in Egypt: A Working Paper Presented for the International Year of the Child, Madiha El-Safty

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Challenges to and Prospects of the Non-Aligned Movement During the Eighties, Samaan Boutros Farajallah

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Non-Alignment and Security, Esam El-Din Galal

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The Case for Sites and Services Schemes, John D. Gerhart

Education for Women-For What?, Wafik Hassouna

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Production as a Focus in Urban Studies, Nicholas S. Hopkins

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Strategies of Urban Labor Force Measurement, Barbara Ibrahim

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The Political Economy of Revolutionary Iran, Mihssen Kadhim

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Egyptian Youth and Justice Systems: A Rural-Urban Comparison, Mark Kennedy

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Categories in Urban Political Economy: Discussion, Richard Lobban

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Special Urban Research Projects: Discussion, Richard Lobban

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Urban Research Theories and Strategies: Discussion, Richard Lobban

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Urban Welfare and Administration: Discussion, Richard Lobban

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Urban Research Strategies, Richard A. Lobban

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Export of Egyptian school teachers, Suzanne A. Messiha

Changing Attitudes towards Health: Some Observations from the Hugariyya, Yemen, Cynthia Nelson

Introduction to the First Edition: Discourse is not Enough: A Challenge from Seminar, Cynthia Nelson

Introduction to the First Edition: Discourse is not Enough: A Challenge from Seminar, Cynthia Nelson

Reconceptualizing Health Care, Cynthia Nelson

The Role of Social Science in Health Service Research, Cynthia Nelson

Styles and Sources of Social Change: Women's Movements as Critiques of Health Care Systems, Virginia Olesen

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The Evolution of the Non-Aligned Movement: Conceptual Orientations and Basic Issues, Haroub Othman

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Urban Conversation: Its Realities and the Role it Offers to Social Research, John Rodenbeck

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The Political Economy of Non-Alignment, Mohamed El-Sayed Selim

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A Non-Aligned Security Doctrine, K. R. Singh

Health, Development and Women, Earl L. (Tim) Sullivan

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Should Cairo be Governed?, Earl L.(Tim) Sullivan

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The Movement of the Non-Aligned and its Dilemmas Today, Bojana Tadic

Books from 1982

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Ghagar of Sett Guiranha: A study of a Gypsy community in Egypt, Nabil Sobhi Hanna

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Distributing disposable income and the impact of eliminating food Subsidies in Egypt, Karima Korayem

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Income Distribution and Basic Needs in Urban Egypt, Amr Mohie El Din

Book Chapters from 1981

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Research Priorities for the Study of Urbanization and Development, Janet Abu Lughod

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Social Research For Development: Core Paper, Laila El Hamamsy

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Land Resettlement), Samiha El Katsha and Louise Weidner

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Development and Environment), Samiha ElKatsha and Louise Weidner

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The Importance of Social Research to Egypt's Development: Inaugural Address, Jehan El Sadat

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The Development Potential of Land Settlement (the Egyptian Case), Hussein Fahim and Thayer Scudder

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Observations of the Conference Rapporteur, Robert A. Fernea

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Family Planning: Integration and Technology, Duff Gillespie

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Social Science Research in Egypt: Institute Report (International Islamic Center for Population Studies and Research), Fouad Hefnawi

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Rural Development), Nicholas Hopkins and Sohair Mehanna

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Social Science Research in the Social Research Center, Nicholas S. Hopkins

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Adaptation of Appropriate Technology), Nicholas S. Hopkins and Sohair Mehanna

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A Statement about the Organization and Activities of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Reda El Said Kandel

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Development and Environment, Mohamed Kassas

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Women and the New International Economic Order, Karima Korayem

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A Statement on Current Research Activities of the Population and Family Planning Board, Egypt, Sarah F. Loza

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Adaptation of Appropriate Technology, Yusef K. Mazhar

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Social and Economic Security and National Development, Saad Z. Nagi

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Symposium Rapporteur Report: Core Paper (Laila El Hamamsy), Nazek Nosseir and Malek Nomrossy

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Rural Poverty in the Third World: Trends, Causes and Policy Reorientation, Samir Radwan, Eddy Lee, and Dharam Ghai

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Population Policies), Hanna Rizk and Belgin Tekce

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The National Center for Social and Criminological Research: Statement of Current Research Projects (1981), Nahed Saleh

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Family Planning: Integration and Technology), Saneya Saleh

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Research Priorities for the Study of Urbanization and Development), Saneya Saleh

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Population Policy, Frederic Shorter

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Women and work in Egypt, Earl L. Sullivan

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Social Security Support System), Helmi Tadros and Louise Weidner

Social Research For Development : Rapporteur Report (Panel Discussion), Belgin Tekce

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The Center for Political and Strategic Studies: Scientific Activities and Publications, El-Sayed Yassin

Books from 1980

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Cairo's Nubian families, Peter Geiser

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Population and Urbanization in Morocco, Saad Eddin Ibrahim

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Living without water, Asaad Nadim, Nawal El-Messiri Nadim, Sohair Mehanna, and John H. Nixon

Book Chapters from 1979

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The Open Door Economic Policy in Egypt: A Search for Meaning, Interpretation and Implication, Gouda Abdel Khalek

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Changing the Law on Personal Status within a Liberal Interpretation of the Sharia, Mohammed Al-Nowaihi

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Law as an Instrument of Social Change: The Case of Population Policy, Adel Azer

Introduction, Nicholas V. Ciaccio

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Planning Recommendations for Children and Youth in Egypt: A Working Paper Presented for the International Year of the Child, Nicholas V. Ciaccio

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Notes on the Political Economy of Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Ruling Class and Its Socio-Economic Impact, Abdel Aziz Ezz El Arab

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Children's Reports of Child-Rearing Practices: A Preliminary Study, Maissa El Mofty

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Changing Women in a Changing Society: The Study of Emergent Consciousness of Young Women in the City of Akhmim in Upper Egypt, Hoda Youssef Fahmy

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The Pyramids Plateau Project, Neamat Fouad

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Pyramids Plateau Project, Ahmed Gami'

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Psychiatric Clinics for Egyptian School Children Focus: The Garden City Psychiatric Clinic of Cairo, Claire Fahim Gobrial

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Time for Reform: Egypt's Public Sector Industry, Heba Ahmed Handoussa

Change and Continuity in an Egyptian Judicial Institution: The Niyaba, Enid Hill

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Modes of Political Economy Research and Egypt, Enid Hill

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The modernization of labor and labor law in the Arab Gulf states, Enid Hill

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Party and peasant in Syria, Raymond A. Hinnebusch

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Lawyers and Social Scientists in Search of a Role in Societal Development, Mark C. Kennedy

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Political Economy, Monolithic or Eclectic? An Epilogue and A Forecast, Mark C. Kennedy

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Law and Social Change: An Overview and Assessment, Ahmed Khalifa

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An Anthropological Note on Law and Development, Klaus F. Koch

Introduction, Cynthia Nelson and Klaus-Friedrich Koch

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Coping with poverty in a Cairo community, Andrea B. Rugh

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Attitudinal and social structural aspects of the brain drain: The Egyptian case, Saneya Abdel Wahab Saleh

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Women in Development: The Intergrated Care Project for Primary School Children, Saneya A.W. Saleh and Suzanne H. Moubarak

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Political Economy as Historical Materialism: Nomenclature: 'A Rose is a Rose...', Herbert B. Thompson

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Child Mental Health in Egypt, Nahed Waines

Books from 1978

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The role of mass communications in inter-state conflict: The Arab-Israeli War of October 1973, Olfat Hassan Agha

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Appendix: Documents on Constitutional and Parliamentary Life in Egypt, 1952-1977, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

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The Transformation of the Party System in Egypt, 1952-1977, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

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The 1952 Revolution and Democracy, Tarek El-Bishri

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Towards a New Democratic Life: A Prologue, Boutros Boutros Ghali

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Saudi Arabian Bedouin : an assessment of their needs, Saad E. Ibrahim and Donald P. Cole

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The Socio-Economic Requisites of Democracy, Saad Eddin Ibrahim

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Political Evolution from the One-Party to the Multi-Party System, Sayed Marei

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Rural resettlement in Egypt's reclaimed lands: An evaluation of a case study in the northwestern Nile Delta, Helmi R. Tadros

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Prospects for Democracy in Egypt, John Waterbury

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Social Structure and Democratic Practice, El Sayed Yassin