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.
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
Challenges to and Prospects of the Non-Aligned Movement During the Eighties, Samaan Boutros Farajallah
Non-Alignment and Security, Esam El-Din Galal
The Case for Sites and Services Schemes, John D. Gerhart
Education for Women-For What?, Wafik Hassouna
Production as a Focus in Urban Studies, Nicholas S. Hopkins
Strategies of Urban Labor Force Measurement, Barbara Ibrahim
The Political Economy of Revolutionary Iran, Mihssen Kadhim
Egyptian Youth and Justice Systems: A Rural-Urban Comparison, Mark Kennedy
Categories in Urban Political Economy: Discussion, Richard Lobban
Special Urban Research Projects: Discussion, Richard Lobban
Urban Research Theories and Strategies: Discussion, Richard Lobban
Urban Welfare and Administration: Discussion, Richard Lobban
Urban Research Strategies, Richard A. Lobban
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
The Evolution of the Non-Aligned Movement: Conceptual Orientations and Basic Issues, Haroub Othman
Urban Conversation: Its Realities and the Role it Offers to Social Research, John Rodenbeck
The Political Economy of Non-Alignment, Mohamed El-Sayed Selim
A Non-Aligned Security Doctrine, K. R. Singh
Health, Development and Women, Earl L. (Tim) Sullivan
Should Cairo be Governed?, Earl L.(Tim) Sullivan
The Movement of the Non-Aligned and its Dilemmas Today, Bojana Tadic
Books from 1982
Ghagar of Sett Guiranha: A study of a Gypsy community in Egypt, Nabil Sobhi Hanna
Distributing disposable income and the impact of eliminating food Subsidies in Egypt, Karima Korayem
Income Distribution and Basic Needs in Urban Egypt, Amr Mohie El Din
Book Chapters from 1981
Research Priorities for the Study of Urbanization and Development, Janet Abu Lughod
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
The Importance of Social Research to Egypt's Development: Inaugural Address, Jehan El Sadat
The Development Potential of Land Settlement (the Egyptian Case), Hussein Fahim and Thayer Scudder
Observations of the Conference Rapporteur, Robert A. Fernea
Family Planning: Integration and Technology, Duff Gillespie
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
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
A Statement about the Organization and Activities of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Reda El Said Kandel
Development and Environment, Mohamed Kassas
Women and the New International Economic Order, Karima Korayem
A Statement on Current Research Activities of the Population and Family Planning Board, Egypt, Sarah F. Loza
Adaptation of Appropriate Technology, Yusef K. Mazhar
Social and Economic Security and National Development, Saad Z. Nagi
Symposium Rapporteur Report: Core Paper (Laila El Hamamsy), Nazek Nosseir and Malek Nomrossy
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
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
Population Policy, Frederic Shorter
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
The Center for Political and Strategic Studies: Scientific Activities and Publications, El-Sayed Yassin
Books from 1980
Cairo's Nubian families, Peter Geiser
Population and Urbanization in Morocco, Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Living without water, Asaad Nadim, Nawal El-Messiri Nadim, Sohair Mehanna, and John H. Nixon
Book Chapters from 1979
The Open Door Economic Policy in Egypt: A Search for Meaning, Interpretation and Implication, Gouda Abdel Khalek
Changing the Law on Personal Status within a Liberal Interpretation of the Sharia, Mohammed Al-Nowaihi
Law as an Instrument of Social Change: The Case of Population Policy, Adel Azer
Introduction, Nicholas V. Ciaccio
Planning Recommendations for Children and Youth in Egypt: A Working Paper Presented for the International Year of the Child, Nicholas V. Ciaccio
Notes on the Political Economy of Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Ruling Class and Its Socio-Economic Impact, Abdel Aziz Ezz El Arab
Children's Reports of Child-Rearing Practices: A Preliminary Study, Maissa El Mofty
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
The Pyramids Plateau Project, Neamat Fouad
Pyramids Plateau Project, Ahmed Gami'
Psychiatric Clinics for Egyptian School Children Focus: The Garden City Psychiatric Clinic of Cairo, Claire Fahim Gobrial
Time for Reform: Egypt's Public Sector Industry, Heba Ahmed Handoussa
Change and Continuity in an Egyptian Judicial Institution: The Niyaba, Enid Hill
Modes of Political Economy Research and Egypt, Enid Hill
The modernization of labor and labor law in the Arab Gulf states, Enid Hill
Party and peasant in Syria, Raymond A. Hinnebusch
Lawyers and Social Scientists in Search of a Role in Societal Development, Mark C. Kennedy
Political Economy, Monolithic or Eclectic? An Epilogue and A Forecast, Mark C. Kennedy
Law and Social Change: An Overview and Assessment, Ahmed Khalifa
An Anthropological Note on Law and Development, Klaus F. Koch
Introduction, Cynthia Nelson and Klaus-Friedrich Koch
Coping with poverty in a Cairo community, Andrea B. Rugh
Attitudinal and social structural aspects of the brain drain: The Egyptian case, Saneya Abdel Wahab Saleh
Women in Development: The Intergrated Care Project for Primary School Children, Saneya A.W. Saleh and Suzanne H. Moubarak
Political Economy as Historical Materialism: Nomenclature: 'A Rose is a Rose...', Herbert B. Thompson
Child Mental Health in Egypt, Nahed Waines
Books from 1978
The role of mass communications in inter-state conflict: The Arab-Israeli War of October 1973, Olfat Hassan Agha
Appendix: Documents on Constitutional and Parliamentary Life in Egypt, 1952-1977, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
The Transformation of the Party System in Egypt, 1952-1977, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
The 1952 Revolution and Democracy, Tarek El-Bishri
Towards a New Democratic Life: A Prologue, Boutros Boutros Ghali
Saudi Arabian Bedouin : an assessment of their needs, Saad E. Ibrahim and Donald P. Cole
The Socio-Economic Requisites of Democracy, Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Political Evolution from the One-Party to the Multi-Party System, Sayed Marei
Rural resettlement in Egypt's reclaimed lands: An evaluation of a case study in the northwestern Nile Delta, Helmi R. Tadros
Prospects for Democracy in Egypt, John Waterbury
Social Structure and Democratic Practice, El Sayed Yassin