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Gender and leadership in Egypt's public sector: the case of the Ministry of Finance

El Taliawi, Ola Gamil (2010-03-02)

There is a radical difference in the number of males versus females in leading positions around the world, both in public and private business structures. This may reflect an underlying perception that women are not apt ...
US civil society aid & its effects on democratization in Egypt case study: the NGO Service Center project

Mesbah, Nahla Shafik (2010-03-02)

The last few decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in Democracy Assistance which has spurred a debate regarding the effectiveness of this type of aid in achieving Democratization in recipient countries especially in ...
Determinants of Egypt's economic growth for the period 1985-2007

Hammam, Rasha Mostafa (2010-05-13)

The main aim of this research is to examine the significance of several economic growth determinants to gauge their impact on Egypt's economic growth. This research uses annual time series analysis to assess the significance ...
Colonizing the Gaza Strip: two phases of governance: a critique of the idea of state

Rizk, Philip (2010-05-20)

Since the year 1948 the landscape of the Gaza Strip has been significantly mutilated. I will assess the transformation that has occurred in both the sense of time and space. In chapter one, I will highlight the Zionist ...
Manufacturing consent: Italy, the Mutamassirun, Egypt, and the invasion of Libya

Heiss, Andrew (2010-05-20)

The period between 1902â 12 reveals a number of insights into both Italy's imperial history and Egypt's colonial experience. Facing an economic crisis at home, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to expatriate ...
Till' death (or conversion) do us part - Coptic divorces in Egyptian courts and their implications

Bishay, Barbara Viktoria (2010-05-20)

When President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized and unified the courts in 1956, he aimed at fostering unity and equality among the Egyptians. But this move has in fact achieved quite the opposite, as it forces Coptic Egyptians ...
Improving the effectivness of audit committee: a comparative analysis of audit committee codes in US, UK and Egypt

Sarsam, Auday Sabri Tawfeek (2010-05-20)

The audit committee performs a very important role in corporate governance. The main objective of this research is to enhance the audit committee effectiveness through, a comparison between codes and regulations of the ...
Israel's colonial settlement complex and it's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people

Herbert, Thomas John (2010-05-24)

The intent of this paper is to depict Israel's complex settlement complex as tool in the continual ethnic cleansing policies of the State of Israel which has continued unabated since the early years of the State's existence. ...
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Nassif, Caroline Kamel (2010-05-24)

Since the 1970s economic activities have become characterized by a combination of spatial dispersion and global integration, which as Sassen (1991) emphasized has created a new strategic role for major cities. Due to these ...
Re-imagining the NS/NNS dichotomy: bicultural teachers

Fathelbab, Heba H. (2010-05-26)

EFL teachers have been categorized using the NS/NNS (native speaker/non-native speaker) dichotomy into NESTs (native English speaking teachers) and NNESTs (non-native English speaking teachers). However, this inaccurate ...
The effect of error correction types on grammatical accuracy in student essay revision

Al Saeed, Neveen Saeed Abd Al Kareem (2010-05-26)

There has been an on-going debate on whether error feedback helps students to improve their grammatical accuracy from one draft to the other (Ferris, 1999; Truscott, 1996; 1999). Some studies found that error correction ...
The union for the Mediterranean: theory, challenges and prospects

Tejero, Estefania Laso (2010-05-26)

The Union for the Mediterranean was designed to be a multifaceted project, the intention of which was to create a framework to manage both bilateral and regional relations among the nations of the Mediterranean. It is based ...
Ethno-religious conflicts and rebuilding the state in Iraq, 2003-2009

Jin, Yong Ki (2010-05-26)

The thesis studies the effect of ethno-religious conflicts in Iraq on the reconstruction process of the state since 2003. This research hypothesizes that ethno-religious conflicts have a direct negative effect on rebuilding ...
Dramatizing national dignity in El Lozy's trilogy

Selim, Samy (2010-05-26)

Mahmoud El Lozy's trilogy, We That Are Young, consists of three plays: Bay the Moon, And Then Went Down to the Ship, and Us and Them (a widely circulating unpublished typescript written in 1998-2005 that has been performed ...
Equalizing classroom participation: public speaking contexts in the Egyptian EFL classroom

Fairley, Mariah Jane (2010-05-27)

Research has shown that about one third of the students in a given classroom are silent, as defined as those students taking fewer than half the class average number of turns. Further, more of these silent students tend ...
Policy vs. deduction: finance lease between formal property and economic reality

Korany, Akram Samy (2010-05-27)

Is finance lease a financial instrument or property contract? This is the question that has been recently debated among the policy makers and practitioners in the Egyptian Leasing market within the discussions about the ...
Evidence for quasi-periodic oscillations in the recurrent emission from magnetars and their implications on the neutron star properties and equation of state

El Mezeini, Ahmed Monzer (2010-05-27)

In this thesis, we present an analysis of highly magnetized neutron stars â magnetarsâ , in search for high frequency oscillations in the recurrent emission from the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20, and we discuss the ...
Canadian refugee resettlement: a case study of the process of policy-making for Iraqi refugees

Gauthier, Mia (2010-05-28)

The purpose of this research is to understand how the Canadian government came to decide when was the opportune time to begin the resettlement of Iraqis, what magnitude these resettlement operations would take, and whom, ...
An e-readiness assessment tool for local authorities: a pilot application to Iraq

Musa, Mohammed Raji (2010-05-28)

Measuring e-readiness is vital to embrace e-government successfully. Sophistication of available tools and lack of capacity at municipal level makes it important to consider e-readiness assessment tools for municipalities. ...
The political economy of violence: the case of Venezuela

Leon, Daniel Simon (2010-05-28)

This thesis will attempt to answer the question of how can the rise in social violence be explained in the oil-rich nation of Venezuela since the 1980s? The once relatively peaceful nation of Venezuela has seen a dramatic ...

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