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Reproductive Health Equity in the Arab Region: A Call for Action - Policy Brief
Hoda Rashad, Zeinab Khadr, and Sherine Shawky
The time is right for the Arab region to embrace a policy movement towards eliminating the systematic unfair inequalities in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) as a core development goal and a whole of government performance indicator. This movement is anchored on the three main pillars of the current development thinking. The first is the ambitious ICPD beyond 2014 framework1 that places people’s well-being at the center and acknowledges their aspirations for dignity and human rights, adopts a rights based approach, and embraces equity and fairness. The second is the social determinants of health (SDH) resolutions of the World Health Organization2 that call for health in all policies. The third is the widely adopted 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs)3 and the pledge to “LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND”. The converging development thinking makes an explicit link between the unequal distribution of health and wellbeing among social groups and the unfairness in three interlinked upstream and structural domains, namely governance, public policies, and social arrangements. It recognizes that the unfairness on these three fronts is a real threat to the cohesion and sustainability of the society. SRH holds a central place in this thinking.
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From Siena to Nubia: Travels of Alessandro Ricci in Egypt and Sudan, 1817-1822
Daniele Salvoldi Dr.
A medical practitioner and talented draftsman, Alessandro Ricci was born in Siena, Italy, at the end of the eighteenth century. He traveled extensively throughout Egypt and Sudan between 1817 and 1822. During his stay, he worked as an epigraphist for Giovanni B. Belzoni in the tomb of Seti I and later entered into the service of British consul general Henry Salt and English explorer William John Bankes, on whose behalf he visited and documented Siwa (1820), Sinai (1820), and Nubia (1818–19 and 1821–22). Ricci also became the physician to Ibrahim Pasha and achieved fame for daringly saving his life during the military campaign that led to Egypt’s conquest of Sudan in 1821–22. Upon his return to Italy, Ricci wrote a long account of all his journeys and reworked a series of ninety plates into striking form, yet failed to publish either. In 2009, Daniele Salvoldi identified a complete typewritten copy of Ricci’s Travels in the National Archives of Egypt in Cairo. Drawings intended to accompany the text as plates were tracked down in different locations in Italy and the United Kingdom. From Siena to Nubia is the English-translated critical edition, with notes and introductory chapters, of Ricci’s travel account, which provides detailed information about the countries he visited, including descriptions of ancient ruins and social customs, botanical and geological remarks, and historical and ethnographic observations. It adds to the recent, growing corpus of exploration literature on nineteenth-century Egypt as well as bringing to light obscure sources important to the early history of Egyptology.
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At the Corner of a Dream: A Journey of Revolution and Resistance: The Street Art of Bahia Shehab
Bahia Mohamed Deeb Shehab
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PVT Property Correlations, Selection and Estimation
Ahmed El-Banbi, Ahmed Alzahabi, and Ahmed El-Maraghi
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Alif 38: Translation and the Production of Knowledge(s)
Ferial J. Ghazoul
The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is 'produced' rather than 'discovered,' and that translation is a core mechanism for the production and circulation of all forms of knowledge. This topic has received relatively limited attention in translation studies to date, and even less in related disciplines such as cultural studies and the history of ideas. This issue aims to encourage sustained engagement with the role played by translation in the production of knowledges across the entire spectrum of human activities. Contributors offer theoretical, empirical, and historical accounts of the impact of translation on the production, renegotiation, and reification of knowledge.
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Al-Riyada fi al-riwaya: Thulathiyyat Edwar al-Kharrat
Ferial J. Ghazoul
A book highlights the role of Al-Kharrat in enriching the literary scene with pioneering storytelling methods.
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The North Kharga Oasis Survey: Explorations in Egypt’s Western Desert
Corinna Rossi and Salima Ikram
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Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles
Tahia Khaled Gamal Abdel Nasser
In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures.
Taking a comparative approach, Nasser shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. She also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, she examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.
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Alif 37: Literature and Journalism
Ferial J. Ghazoul
The articles in Alif 37 address the intersection of literature and journalism, in a wide variety of Arabophone, Francophone, Anglophone, and Latin American contexts, analyzing the literary in relation to an array of journalistic genres and forums, including the interview, investigative journalism, the questionnaire, the blogosphere, creative non-fiction and reportage, literary websites, cultural periodicals, the autobiographical essay, and writers’ opinion articles. Complemented by the testimonies of two journalist–littérateurs and an interview with an artist–poet–art critic, the studies present fresh aspects of Arab literary modernity, littérature engagée, the politics of reception and translation in cultural journalism, canon-formation in relation to journalism, the journalistic delineation of a literary generation’s profile, gender and censorship of creative writers, and revolution and civil strife.
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Alterity and Criticism: Tracing Time in Modern Literature
William Donald Melaney
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of the self.
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Bildungsroman
William Donald Melaney
Bildungsroman can be read as a semi-narrative account of an artist who attempts to produce work that appears intermittently, opening up insights into the human condition and the current state of life as lived not only by the artist but by others as well. As a narrative, this collection of poems commemorates the death of the King, the cessation of war and the benefits of the human imagination. The title of the book evokes the Modernist practice of challenging the conventional division between poetry and prose. The speaker is not always the writer but usually derives insights from the writer’s life. The poems have been arranged in groups that roughly follow the dates of composition, with the first two groups going back three decades and the final group having been written during the past ten years.
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Entrepreneurship in the Arab World
El-Khazindar Business Research And Case Center Business Research And Case Center
This collection of case-studies showcases the experiences of ten intriguing entrepreneurial ventures from emerging markets in the Arab world (Egypt, the UAE, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia). Readers will receive an in-depth insight on a variety of localized strategic, managerial, marketing, and innovative approaches and practices, which create unique challenges and opportunities in a region undergoing rapid political, social, and economic transformations. The unique case-studies address different stages within the exciting entrepreneurial cycle, from start-up to growth, sustainability, and international expansion. This casebook is a valuable resource for anyone wanting to know more about launching and sustaining a business within developing Arab economies, as well as being an effective teaching tool for disciplines related to new venture management and entrepreneurship.
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