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  • The oil question in Egyptian-Israeli relations, 1967-1979 : a study in international law and resource politics by Karim Wissa

    The oil question in Egyptian-Israeli relations, 1967-1979 : a study in international law and resource politics

    Karim Wissa

  • Legislating Infitah: Investment, Currency, and Foreign Trade Laws by Khaled Mahmoud Fahmy

    Legislating Infitah: Investment, Currency, and Foreign Trade Laws

    Khaled Mahmoud Fahmy

  • Alif 8: Interpretation and Hermeneutics by Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor

    Alif 8: Interpretation and Hermeneutics

    Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor

  • Participation and community in the Egyptian new lands: The case of South Tahrir by Nicholas Hopkins, Abderrahim ElHaydary, Salah El Zoghby, and Hanaa Singer

    Participation and community in the Egyptian new lands: The case of South Tahrir

    Nicholas Hopkins, Abderrahim ElHaydary, Salah El Zoghby, and Hanaa Singer

  • Social history of an agrarian reform community in Egypt by Reem Saad

    Social history of an agrarian reform community in Egypt

    Reem Saad

  • Palestinian universities under occupation by Anthony Thrall Sullivan

    Palestinian universities under occupation

    Anthony Thrall Sullivan

  • The changing image of women in rural Egypt by Mona Abaza

    The changing image of women in rural Egypt

    Mona Abaza

  • Al-Sanhuri and Islamic law: The place and significance of Islamic law in the life and work of ʻAbd al-Razzaq Ahmad al-Sanhuri, Egyptian jurist and scholar, 1895-1971 by Enid Hill

    Al-Sanhuri and Islamic law: The place and significance of Islamic law in the life and work of ʻAbd al-Razzaq Ahmad al-Sanhuri, Egyptian jurist and scholar, 1895-1971

    Enid Hill

  • Informal Communities in Cairo: The Basis of a Typology by Linda Oldham, Haguer El Hadidi, and Hussein Tamaa

    Informal Communities in Cairo: The Basis of a Typology

    Linda Oldham, Haguer El Hadidi, and Hussein Tamaa

  • Gone for good? : Egyptian migration processes in the Arab world by Ralph R. Sell

    Gone for good? : Egyptian migration processes in the Arab world

    Ralph R. Sell

  • Philosophy, ethics, and virtuous rule: A study of Averroes' Commentary on Plato's "Republic" by Charles E. Butterworth

    Philosophy, ethics, and virtuous rule: A study of Averroes' Commentary on Plato's "Republic"

    Charles E. Butterworth

  • The institutionalization of Palestinian identity in Egypt by Maha Ahmed Dajani

    The institutionalization of Palestinian identity in Egypt

    Maha Ahmed Dajani

  • The Jihad : an Islamic alternative in Egypt by Nemat Guenena

    The Jihad : an Islamic alternative in Egypt

    Nemat Guenena

  • Social identity and class in a Cairo neighborhood by Nadia Adel Taher

    Social identity and class in a Cairo neighborhood

    Nadia Adel Taher

  • An analytic index of survey research in Egypt by Madiha El Safty, Monte Palmer, and Mark Kennedy

    An analytic index of survey research in Egypt

    Madiha El Safty, Monte Palmer, and Mark Kennedy

    The objective of the present volume is to provide planners and scholars with an analytical summary of some of the most important survey research projects that have been completed in Egypt over the course of the past twenty years.

  • Basic needs, inflation, and the poor of Egypt, 1970-1980 by Myrette Ahmed El Sokkari

    Basic needs, inflation, and the poor of Egypt, 1970-1980

    Myrette Ahmed El Sokkari

    The aim of the study is to see how the poor have fared over the 1970's: to evaluate whether their welfare improved or worsened. The cost of the private consumption goods will be estimated over the period of 1970-1982 using detailed information on the cost of food, clothing, and shelter for both urban and rural areas.

  • Alif 4: Intertextuality by Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor

    Alif 4: Intertextuality

    Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor

  • Irrigation and society in rural Egypt by Sohair Mehanna, Richard Huntington, and Rachad Antonius

    Irrigation and society in rural Egypt

    Sohair Mehanna, Richard Huntington, and Rachad Antonius

  • Social security and the family in Egypt by Helmi R. Tadros

    Social security and the family in Egypt

    Helmi R. Tadros

    This study is based on the research project entitled"The Role of Social and Economic Security in Family and Community Life", conducted by the Social Research Center (SRC) of the American University in Cairo in collaboration with the Mershon Center of the Ohio State University.

  • The Nationalization of Arabic and Islamic Education in Egypt: Dar Al Alum and Al Azhar by Lois A. Aroian

    The Nationalization of Arabic and Islamic Education in Egypt: Dar Al Alum and Al Azhar

    Lois A. Aroian

    This study sets forth for the first time the vital role of Dar Al'ulum, Egypt's first and only continuously operating university level teaching training institution, in the nationalization of Islamic and Arabic education in Egypt. Ali Mubarak, nineteenth century Egypt's longest enduring bureaucrat, initiated , and Khedive Ismail (1863-1879) founded Dar al Ulum in 1892 to train teachers of Arabic and Turkish for the newly expanding national (amiriyya) school system. This study grew out of a PhD dissertation, "Education, Language and Culture in Modern Egypt: Dar Al Ulum and its Graduates (1872-1923)" presented at The University of Michigin in 1978.

  • The Political Economy of Revolutionary Iran by Mihssen Kadhim

    The Political Economy of Revolutionary Iran

    Mihssen Kadhim

  • Export of Egyptian school teachers by Suzanne A. Messiha

    Export of Egyptian school teachers

    Suzanne A. Messiha

    Migration is a complex social phenomenon whose causes, motivations and consequences are diverse. The economist, therefore, cannot presume the mono­poly of its explanation. He, like specialists of other disciplines, emphasizes the variables of his concern. This monograph treats migration from an economic point of view; migra­tion is conceptualized as a means of promoting efficient utilization of re­sources., an fovestment aiming at increasing the productivity of human resources, an investment which has costs and which also generates return (Schultz, 1971: 18, Bowan et al, 1967:875-98; Sjaastad, 1962:8-83.) It is an attempt to appraise Egypt's policy to invest in huma.n capital through export, i.e. cost-benefit analysis. Both the internal rate of return and the net present value criteria have been used to test the hypothesis that seconding Egyptian school teachers to Saudia Arabia and Kuwait is profitable for Egypt as the emigration country. From the private welfare perspective, the objective function is to maximize the income of a particular group, and from the development perspective, the objective function is to maximize gross domestic product. The research outline in treating this subject has been as follows: In part one, we examine the demand for Egyptian labor in Arab countries. giving different estimates of the number of Egyptians actually working there. Then we discuss the triad of Egypt's economic problems (foreign exchange shor­tage, population pressure, and surplus labor) which have been plaguing the economy since the sixties, and which gathered momentum in the seventies to finally compel the Egyptian government to resort to liberalization of migra­tion as an outlet. From this, we proceed in part 2 to review the evolution of Egypt's migration policy since the Revolution. In this period, the tone of official Egyptian policy has ranged from antagonism, to ambivalence to liberalization. The reference to policy includes migration policies,secondment policies, and remittances policies. Having discussed Egypt's migratjon policy, we turn in part 3 to a survey of status of migration theory and its recent appfication to migration. This survey consists of listing the different approaches used in the study of emigration phenomenon and the perspective followed in this study (human capital approach:empirical application). Part 4 contains a detailed explanation of the methodology used in this study, its relevance and limitations. The hypothesis which·;: to be tested within the framework of the private welfare perspective and the development perspective is spelled out, followed by the sources of data for empirical application of the model. In part 5, the Saudi Arabian survey is examined. This survey is exam­ined in relation to the construction of the questionnaire schedules, the res­pondents' characteristics, attitudes, preferences and expenditures pattern abroad and upon return to Egypt. This survey focuses primarily on the impor­tance of remittances and repatriated earnings of the respondents and of the original population as a whole and their magnitude and significance relative to the Egyptian economy. This chapter also includes an assessment of Egypt's remittance policy in light of our findings. The same pattern of analysis has been pursued in part 6 for the Kuwaiti case. In part 7, an attempt is made to apply the model empirically to our findings in the two surveys within the framework of the private welfare and development perspectives and to interpret the results in part 8, our conclusions are presented and policy recommendations based on our findings are proposed.

  • Alif 2: Criticism and the Avant-Garde by Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor

    Alif 2: Criticism and the Avant-Garde

    Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor

  • Ghagar of Sett Guiranha: A Study of a Gypsy Community in Egypt by Nabil Sobhi Hanna

    Ghagar of Sett Guiranha: A Study of a Gypsy Community in Egypt

    Nabil Sobhi Hanna

    This monograph is the result of a field study of one of the gypsy groups in Egypt known as the "Ghagar of Sett Guiran'ha'i" which lives within the boundaries of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in a rural area, close to main centers. Apart from giving a detailed description of this group, the study attempts to reveal the dynamics of integration of this group with the society around it through the examination of forms of social contact and avoidance; the expioration of similarities and contrasts between the gypsy group and the local community; and the investigation of some aspects of the social structure and prevailing culture cif both the"Ghagar and their host community" Following Anne Sutherland's approach in her study of American Gypsies {1975}, every effort has been made in the present work to preserve the anonymity of this group and to protect them from curiosity seekers whose presence might jeopardize social relations with the host community. Accordingly, the precise locale of the Ghagar of Sett Guiran'ha is not given here and the names of specific individuals are withheld. This particular group was selected for study because it forms a typi­cal gypsy society: The Ghagar use their own language, in addition to the local Arabic; they have preserved and practice traditional gypsy occupa­tions; they practice endogamous marriage, though they share basic charac­teristics with the surrounding society; their numbers are reasonably small.

  • Distributing Disposable Income and The Impact of Eliminating Food Subsidies in Egypt by Karima Korayem

    Distributing Disposable Income and The Impact of Eliminating Food Subsidies in Egypt

    Karima Korayem

    While both papers in this issue were written on different occasions, both discuss factors relating to the standard of living of the Egyptian pop­ulation, namely, income and consumption. They, therefore are sufficiently related to comprise a single monograph. The income distribution paper shows that a large proportion of the pop­ulation falls in the relatively low income brackets. The second paper, a subject of intensive public debate at present, shows how important food sub­sidy is in keeping down the cost of living of the low-income urban popula­tion. For example, it has been found that almost one-third of the urban population devote at least one-quarter of their total consumption expendi­ture to the main subsidized food items. The main objective of the income distribution paper is to provide de­pendable estimates of income distribution in the urban and rural sectors in Egypt. The consumption expenditure data of the Households Budget Survey 1974/75 have been used as the basis of these estimates. The objective of the second paper is twofold. First, it tries to find out how significantly the cost of living of the urban population will be affected if food subsidies are eliminated. This is done by examining both the direct and the indirect effects of the removal ot food subsidies on the urban cost of living. Second, same alternative measures are examined which might provide a better substi­tute for the prevailing subsidy system.

 

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