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The Death of the Father in Contemporary Tunisian Film

Florence Martin

The first of four issues in volume 33. This issue covers masculinity in Egypt and the Middle East. Contributors include: Mustafa Abdalla, Samira Aghacy, Wilson Jacob, Hanan Kholoussy, Florence Martin.
Emotion detection using noisy EEG data

Mina Mikhail, Khaled El-Ayat, Rana El Kaliouby, James Coan, and John J.B. Allen

[abstract not available]
Time-based demand-constrained cross-layer resource allocation for wireless networks

Karim E. Morsy, Mohammed H. Nafie, Fadel F. Digham, and Ayman Y. Elezabi

[abstract not available]
Desktop orthogonal-type robot with abilities of compliant motion and stick-slip motion for lapping of LED lens molds

Fusaomi Nagata, Takanori Mizobuchi, Shintaro Tani, Tetsuo Hase, and Zenku Haga

[abstract not available]
A novel scheme for relay cooperation in interweave cognitive radio systems

Ahmed A. Naguib, Ayman Elezabi, and Mohammed Nafie

[abstract not available]
Electrostatics utilization for concrete performance measurements

Nardin Nakhla, Amr Alaa El-deen, Karim Maurice, Laila Youssef, and Nada Mahfouz

[abstract not available]
Simulating the effect of access road route slection on wind farm construction

Khaled Nassar, Mohamed El Masry, and Hesham Osman

[abstract not available]
Workcell concatenation using WiFi-based wireless networked control systems

Tarek K. Refaat, Ramez M. Daoud, Hassanein H. Amer, Mai Hassan, and Omneya M. Sultan

[abstract not available]
WiFi implementation of Wireless Networked Control Systems

Tarek K. Refaat, Ramez M. Daoud, Hassanein H. Amer, and Esraa A. Makled

[abstract not available]
Introduction: The State of the Field of Masculinity Studies

Helen Rizzo

The first of four issues in volume 33. This issue covers masculinity in Egypt and the Middle East. Contributors include: Mustafa Abdalla, Samira Aghacy, Wilson Jacob, Hanan Kholoussy, Florence Martin.
The Role of Women's-Rights Organizations in Promoting Masculine Responsibility: The Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign in Egypt

Helen Rizzo

The first of four issues in volume 33. This issue covers masculinity in Egypt and the Middle East. Contributors include: Mustafa Abdalla, Samira Aghacy, Wilson Jacob, Hanan Kholoussy, Florence Martin.
The long road home

Sherene Seikaly

[no abstract provided]
Thermal design of a fully equipped solar-powered desert home

M. A. Serag-Eldin

The paper presents a conceptual design and thermodynamic analysis of a solar-powered desert home. The home is airconditioned and provides all modern comforts and facilities. Electrical power, which drives the entire energy system, is generated by roof mounted photovoltaic modules. A detailed dynamic heat transfer analysis is conducted for the building envelope, coupled with a solar radiation model. A dynamic heat balance for a typical Middle-Eastern desert site, reveals that indeed such a design is feasible with present day technology; and should be even more attractive with future advances in technology.
Motion in industrial wireless networked control systems using 802.11b

Abdel Aziz R. Shalaby, Esraa A. Makled, Ramez M. Daoud, Mai Hassan, and Tarek K. Refaat

[abstract not available]
On-chip antenna: Practical design and characterization considerations

A. Shamim, K. N. Salama, E. A. Soliman, and S. Sedky

[abstract not available]
The force of a doctrine: Art. 38 of the PCIJ statute and the sources of international law

Thomas Skouteris

[no abstract provided]
77-GHz MEMS brick-wall antenna fed by coupled microstrip lines

E. A. Soliman, S. Hassan, O. El Katteb, M. O. Sallam, and M. Serry

[abstract not available]
Series-fed microstrip antenna arrays operating at 26 GHz

E. A. Soliman, A. Vasylchenko, V. Volski, G. A.E. Vandenbosch, and W. De Raedt

[abstract not available]
Fifty Years of State Land Distribution in the Syrian Jazira: Agrarian Reform, Agrarian Counter-reform, and the Arab Belt Policy (1958-2008)

Myriam Ababsa

This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.
African Refugees: Ambivalent Status and Diasporic Struggles in Cairo

Mulki Al Sharmani

This chapter argues that African migrant groups are marginalized on the level of governmental policies, national discourse, and daily life yet, despite these exclusionary policies and economic hardships, Cairo's spaces of illegality, informality and (transnational) kinship networks, and community solidarity can make it a “more fluid and thus safer urban space” than that experienced by refugees in many other nations. It also covers the ways in which Somali and Sudanese communities, fleeing civil war and violence in their own countries, rebuilt their communities in Egypt, yet, when Sudanese refugees grew frustrated by very slow resettlement programs and the diminishing possibilities to gain refugee status, over 1,200 men, women, and children staged a sit-in. In general, Egypt, with its rigid citizenship laws and its public discourse of exclusionary nationalism and its simultaneous commitment to the protection of refugees and the cosmopolitan daily realities of its urban spaces, seems to be a host society that is both closed and open to refugees.
Gender, Poverty and Agro-Biodiversity Conservationin Rural Egypt and Tunisia

Habib Ayeb and Reem Saad

This paper investigates the links between poverty, gender, and biodiversity in rural Egypt and Tunisia. Its aim is to highlight the significant role of women in biodiversity conservation, as well as the complexities that characterize the relationship between poverty and biodiversity protection. Despite natural and social diversity, Egypt and Tunisia are comparable in terms of their present paths of economic transformation. Agriculture and rural society are comparable in both countries in terms of scarcity ofland and water, and threats to agricultural resources (urbanization, industrialization, tourism, agro-investment, etc.). In both countries, rural dwellers are increasingly resorting to non-agricultural activity, including internal and external labor migration. In both countries, the liberalization of agricultural land and water markets has been a core component of economic reform and structural adjustment policies. Those reforms have aggravated the problem of rural poverty, and have had adverse effects on the general welfare and status of food security of a significant number of rural households. In both countries, the over-exploitation of agricultural resources and the introduction of new modes of farming (including the increasing reliance on hybrid seeds) are posing significant threats to agricultural biodiversity and to the ecological balance in general. This problem has important implications for the welfare of rural dwellers, especially because of the implications for food security. This paper seeks to test a hypothesis supported by research evidence from other world regions: that women's increased access to secure land tenure and other agricultural resources is positively correlated with biodiversity conservation. The paper will also test the same correlation with respect to poor farmers. The paper is primarily based on fieldwork carried out in two comparable regions of rural Egypt and Tunisia, namely the region ofFayoum and the Oasis of Gabes respectively. In both areas there are serious challenges to agro-biodiversity and the ecological balance in general. These include the encroachment of urbanization and industrialization, emerging modes ofland exploitation that over-exploit natural resources, and the widespread use of hybrid seed varieties to the detriment oflocal varieties. In the area under study in rural Egypt, the main challenge to agro-biodiversity is the spread of hybrid seeds, while in the Tunisian case it is the encroaching urbanization and industrialization, and an expansion of investment agriculture. The paper is divided into three main sections. The first outlines the main conceptual issues, including comparative material from agrarian societies outside of the MENA region. The second details the Egypt case, and the third the Tunisian case.
Gender, Poverty, and Agro-Biodiversity Conservation in Rural Egypt and Tunisia

Habib Ayeb and Reem Saad

This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.
Revisiting Agrarian Transformation in the Arab Region

Habib Ayeb and Reem Saad

This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.
Biodiversity and Social Change in Ishkeul National Park, Tunisia

Sonia Ben Meriem

This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.
Of Fish and Profit: Large - and Small scale Fishing in Lake Nasser

Hadeer ElShafie

This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.