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  • Optimizing Indoor Environmental Quality in hot arid climates by Dalia Wagdi, Khaled Tarabieh, and Phillipa Grant

    Optimizing Indoor Environmental Quality in hot arid climates

    Dalia Wagdi, Khaled Tarabieh, and Phillipa Grant

    [abstract not available]

  • Compact silicon electro-optical modulator using hybrid ITO Tri-coupled waveguides by Mohamed Y. Abdelatty, Mohamed M. Badr, and Mohamed A. Swillam

    Compact silicon electro-optical modulator using hybrid ITO Tri-coupled waveguides

    Mohamed Y. Abdelatty, Mohamed M. Badr, and Mohamed A. Swillam

    [abstract not available]

  • Anglophone Arab Autobiography and the Postcolonial Middle East: Najla Said and Hisham Matar by Tahia Khaled Gamal Abdel Nasser

    Anglophone Arab Autobiography and the Postcolonial Middle East: Najla Said and Hisham Matar

    Tahia Khaled Gamal Abdel Nasser

    A prominent device assumed by the contemporary Anglophone Arab memoir is that of the ‘return narrative’. This chapter focuses on Palestinian-American author Najla Said’s Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family and London-based Libyan novelist Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between. Looking for Palestine and The Return represent a new form of transnational literature that explicitly seeks to cut across the Orientalised circuits of literary and cultural exchange by which memoirs from the Arab world are typically written, published and read. They trace personal and political trajectories that draw attention to the Middle East of the twenty-first century and that explore the dynamics of return in this rapidly changing context. By closely attending to these memoirs of return, I aim in this chapter to reveal how the genre of Anglophone Arab autobiography engages established networks of literary transmission and reception, and, in so doing, sheds new light on the Middle East.

  • The Production of Alternative Knowledge: Political Participation of Palestinian Women since the 1930s: A Case Study by Faiha Abdulhadi

    The Production of Alternative Knowledge: Political Participation of Palestinian Women since the 1930s: A Case Study

    Faiha Abdulhadi

    Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general, and of feminist movement in particular. Until the end of the twentieth century in the Arab world, archives of women’s oral narratives were almost non-existent with the exception of small documentation efforts tied to individual research. However, since 2011, there has been a marked increase in the documentation of projects. In this context, the Women and Memory Forum organized a conference in 2015 about the challenges of creating gender sensitive oral history archives in times of change. The papers in this collection shed light on documentation initiatives in Arab countries in transitional and conflict situations, in addition to international experiences. They engage with questions around archives and power, the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies to the making and preserving of archives, ethical concerns in the construction of archives, women’s archives and the production of alternative knowledge, as well as conceptual and methodological issues in oral history.

  • A 93% peak efficiency fully-integrated multilevel multistate hybrid DC-DC converter by Abdullah Abdulslam, Baker Mohammad, Mohammed Ismail, Patrick P. Mercier, and Yehea Ismail

    A 93% peak efficiency fully-integrated multilevel multistate hybrid DC-DC converter

    Abdullah Abdulslam, Baker Mohammad, Mohammed Ismail, Patrick P. Mercier, and Yehea Ismail

    [abstract not available]

  • A low power self-healing resilient microarchitecture for PVT variability mitigation by Shady Agwa, Eslam Yahya, and Yehea Ismail

    A low power self-healing resilient microarchitecture for PVT variability mitigation

    Shady Agwa, Eslam Yahya, and Yehea Ismail

    [abstract not available]

  • An adaptive multi-factor fault-tolerance selection scheme for FPGAs in space applications by Gehad I. Alkady, Hassanein H. Amer, Ramez M. Daoud, Tarek K. Refaat, and Hany M. ElSayed

    An adaptive multi-factor fault-tolerance selection scheme for FPGAs in space applications

    Gehad I. Alkady, Hassanein H. Amer, Ramez M. Daoud, Tarek K. Refaat, and Hany M. ElSayed

    [abstract not available]

  • Hierarchical coherent and non-coherent communication by Kareem M. Attiah, Karim G. Seddik, and Ramy H. Gohary

    Hierarchical coherent and non-coherent communication

    Kareem M. Attiah, Karim G. Seddik, and Ramy H. Gohary

    [abstract not available]

  • A framework for using data analytics to measure trust in government through the social capital generated over governmental social media platforms by Nahed Azab and Mohamed ElSherif

    A framework for using data analytics to measure trust in government through the social capital generated over governmental social media platforms

    Nahed Azab and Mohamed ElSherif

    © 2018 is held by the owner/author(s). It has been noted that citizens' trust in public institutions is continuously declining. Low social capital has been confirmed as one of the main reasons for this decrease in trust towards government. As social media offer a number of features that could foster social capital, governments worldwide are embracing these new tools in an attempt to restore citizens' trust. Having an existence on social media doesn't guarantee that it would increase trust; it can even compromise on the reputation of a public agency in the absence of a clear strategy targeted towards developing confidence and trust. To ensure the reflection of this strategy on the content of governmental social media, there should be a mechanism that measures the degree of trust on social media in government taking into account different aspects related to trust. Despite the importance of this kind of evaluation, it is though overlooked in both academia and practice. This paper therefore aims to fill this research gap through suggesting a standard technique to measure different trust dimensions on social media accounts of governments. A proposed framework for evaluating trust was applied on Facebook accounts of three Egyptian ministries -selected based on their apparent contribution to the national economy- taking into account six dimensions of trust: Responsiveness, Accessibility, Transparency, Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Participation.

  • Development of autonomous networked robots (ANR) for surveillance: Conceptual design and requirements by Chimsom Chukwuemeka and Maki K. Habib

    Development of autonomous networked robots (ANR) for surveillance: Conceptual design and requirements

    Chimsom Chukwuemeka and Maki K. Habib

    [abstract not available]

  • Reliable wireless sensor networks topology control for critical internet of things applications by Dina Deif and Yasser Gadallah

    Reliable wireless sensor networks topology control for critical internet of things applications

    Dina Deif and Yasser Gadallah

    [abstract not available]

  • A Methodology for Evaluating the Hygroscopic Behavior of Wood in Adaptive Building Skins using Motion Grammar by Rana El-Dabaa and Sherif Abdelmohsen

    A Methodology for Evaluating the Hygroscopic Behavior of Wood in Adaptive Building Skins using Motion Grammar

    Rana El-Dabaa and Sherif Abdelmohsen

    [abstract not available]

  • Security analysis of chaotic baker maps by Amira Elhamshary, Yehea Ismail, and Said Elkhamy

    Security analysis of chaotic baker maps

    Amira Elhamshary, Yehea Ismail, and Said Elkhamy

    [abstract not available]

  • Nonlinear robust control of a quadcopter: Implementation and evaluation by Amr M. Elhennawy and Maki K. Habib

    Nonlinear robust control of a quadcopter: Implementation and evaluation

    Amr M. Elhennawy and Maki K. Habib

    [abstract not available]

  • Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation, and the Making of Archives: Introduction by Hoda Elsadda and Hanan Sabea

    Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation, and the Making of Archives: Introduction

    Hoda Elsadda and Hanan Sabea

    Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general, and of feminist movement in particular. Until the end of the twentieth century in the Arab world, archives of women’s oral narratives were almost non-existent with the exception of small documentation efforts tied to individual research. However, since 2011, there has been a marked increase in the documentation of projects. In this context, the Women and Memory Forum organized a conference in 2015 about the challenges of creating gender sensitive oral history archives in times of change. The papers in this collection shed light on documentation initiatives in Arab countries in transitional and conflict situations, in addition to international experiences. They engage with questions around archives and power, the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies to the making and preserving of archives, ethical concerns in the construction of archives, women’s archives and the production of alternative knowledge, as well as conceptual and methodological issues in oral history.

  • SOAP: SDN overlay across providers for IoT cognition services by Walaa F. Elsadek and Mikhail N. Mikhail

    SOAP: SDN overlay across providers for IoT cognition services

    Walaa F. Elsadek and Mikhail N. Mikhail

    [abstract not available]

  • The effect of entrepreneurial market orientation on firm performance: The case of SMEs in Egypt by Heba M. Elshourbagy and Hesham O. Dinana

    The effect of entrepreneurial market orientation on firm performance: The case of SMEs in Egypt

    Heba M. Elshourbagy and Hesham O. Dinana

    [abstract not available]

  • Heterogeneous ITS Architecture for Manned and Unmanned Cars in Suburban Areas by Salma Emara, Ayah Elewa, Omar Wasil, Kholoud Moustafa, and Nada Abdel Khalek

    Heterogeneous ITS Architecture for Manned and Unmanned Cars in Suburban Areas

    Salma Emara, Ayah Elewa, Omar Wasil, Kholoud Moustafa, and Nada Abdel Khalek

    [abstract not available]

  • Effect of using a collaborative video-based self-evaluation activity on helping AFL student-teachers tie theory to practice by Raghda El Essawi

    Effect of using a collaborative video-based self-evaluation activity on helping AFL student-teachers tie theory to practice

    Raghda El Essawi

    [no abstract provided]

  • Secularism, Sectarianism, and Spirituality in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer by Ferial J. Ghazoul

    Secularism, Sectarianism, and Spirituality in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer

    Ferial J. Ghazoul

    The presence of religion in literature is not a new phenomenon. Religion is a part of culture; its popular manifestations and diverse interpretations and be­liefs have often been exposed in literary works from Milton to Dostoevsky, from Dante to Flaubert. Images of religion are often interwoven in literary works and different aspects and manifestations of religion may be emphasized -doctrines, ethics or rituals. If we examine the presence of Islam in Arabic lite­rary works, we find different types of Islam presented, and this is not surpri­sing since Islam has many faces in the life of Muslim societies, from its insti­tutional formulation to popular Islam as lived by the people.

  • Recuperating Women’s Memory as Knowledge: Sudan’s Conflict Zones by Sondra Hale

    Recuperating Women’s Memory as Knowledge: Sudan’s Conflict Zones

    Sondra Hale

    Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general, and of feminist movement in particular. Until the end of the twentieth century in the Arab world, archives of women’s oral narratives were almost non-existent with the exception of small documentation efforts tied to individual research. However, since 2011, there has been a marked increase in the documentation of projects. In this context, the Women and Memory Forum organized a conference in 2015 about the challenges of creating gender sensitive oral history archives in times of change. The papers in this collection shed light on documentation initiatives in Arab countries in transitional and conflict situations, in addition to international experiences. They engage with questions around archives and power, the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies to the making and preserving of archives, ethical concerns in the construction of archives, women’s archives and the production of alternative knowledge, as well as conceptual and methodological issues in oral history.

  • Testimonio as Methodology: Archiving, Translating, and Theorizing Egyptian Women’s Experiences of Gendered Violence in the January 25th Revolution by Manal Hamzeh

    Testimonio as Methodology: Archiving, Translating, and Theorizing Egyptian Women’s Experiences of Gendered Violence in the January 25th Revolution

    Manal Hamzeh

    Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general, and of feminist movement in particular. Until the end of the twentieth century in the Arab world, archives of women’s oral narratives were almost non-existent with the exception of small documentation efforts tied to individual research. However, since 2011, there has been a marked increase in the documentation of projects. In this context, the Women and Memory Forum organized a conference in 2015 about the challenges of creating gender sensitive oral history archives in times of change. The papers in this collection shed light on documentation initiatives in Arab countries in transitional and conflict situations, in addition to international experiences. They engage with questions around archives and power, the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies to the making and preserving of archives, ethical concerns in the construction of archives, women’s archives and the production of alternative knowledge, as well as conceptual and methodological issues in oral history.

  • Love and money in eighteenth-century Egyptian literature by Nelly Hanna

    Love and money in eighteenth-century Egyptian literature

    Nelly Hanna

    [no abstract provided]

  • Narrating Gender in Egypt’s Public Sphere: The Archive of Women’s Oral History by Maissan Hassan and Diana Magdy

    Narrating Gender in Egypt’s Public Sphere: The Archive of Women’s Oral History

    Maissan Hassan and Diana Magdy

    Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general, and of feminist movement in particular. Until the end of the twentieth century in the Arab world, archives of women’s oral narratives were almost non-existent with the exception of small documentation efforts tied to individual research. However, since 2011, there has been a marked increase in the documentation of projects. In this context, the Women and Memory Forum organized a conference in 2015 about the challenges of creating gender sensitive oral history archives in times of change. The papers in this collection shed light on documentation initiatives in Arab countries in transitional and conflict situations, in addition to international experiences. They engage with questions around archives and power, the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies to the making and preserving of archives, ethical concerns in the construction of archives, women’s archives and the production of alternative knowledge, as well as conceptual and methodological issues in oral history.

  • The crises of world literature: Suez from building to Bandung by May Hawas

    The crises of world literature: Suez from building to Bandung

    May Hawas

    [no abstract provided]

 

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