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Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World

Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World

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Maha Abdelrahman, 'Divine Consumption: “Islamic” Goods in Cairo', special issue on 'Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Egypt', ed. Maha Abdelrahman, Iman A. Hamdy, Malak Rouchdy, and Reem Saad, Cairo Papers in Social Science ...
Egypt's Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings

Egypt's Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings

Maha Abdelrahman

This book examines the decade long of protest movements which created the context for the January 2011 mass uprising.
Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism

Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism

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For more on this, see Maha Abdelrahman, “The Transnational and the Local: Egyptian Activists and Transnational Protest Networks,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 38(3) (2011): 407–424. 7. Dina Shehata, “Opposition Politics in ...
The Dynamics of Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World: ...

The Dynamics of Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World: ...

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391406 Chapter9 TheTransnational andthe Local: Egyptian Activists and TransnationalProtest Networks Maha Abdelrahman British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, volume 38, issue 3, Dec 2011, pp.407424 Chapter 10 Opposition ...
Civil Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt

Civil Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt

Maha M. Abdelrahman

This book examines the debate on the relevance of the concept of civil society to social and political change and the role its most well-known agents, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), play in promoting emancipatory projects.
Federico Dezzani - Blog. Anno 2016

Federico Dezzani - Blog. Anno 2016

Federico Dezzani

Non figurano proprio Anne Alexande e Maha Abdelrahman, i due docenti di Regeni a Cambridge, tra i firmatari? Ed invece, no! Il presunto muro d'omertà innalzato dalle autorità egiziane, si trasforma in una fortezza inespugnabile in ...
Seeing Like a City

Seeing Like a City

Ash Amin

Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift ... available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Amin, Ash, author. | Thrift, N.J., author. Title: Seeing like a city / Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift. Description: Cambridge, UK; Malden, ...
Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Mark Jensen

... Cosmopolitanism:Ethics in aWorldof Strangers (NewYork: W.W. Norton, 2006), andAmartya Sen, Identity andViolence. 11.Appiah, Cosmopolitanism, p. xv. Bibliography Abdelrahman, MahaM., CivilSociety Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in.
Sāsanavamsa

Sāsanavamsa

Paññasāmi

... 72 Lohitacandana(vihara) 54 V Vacanatthajoti(gandha) 75 Vajirabuddhi(thera) 34, 138 Vajjiputtaka 5, 6, 7, 12, 13,14 ... a(raj a)2 7 (Cula)Vimalabuddhi ) ^ 75 ( Nava)Vimalabuddhi 34 (Maha)Vimalabuddhi j ^ 75 Vimalacara(thera 162, 164 ...
History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka

History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka

Gunaratne Panabokke

... Thera Maha Kassapa.2 This was folowed up by a Sinhalese gloss on the same work by Sariputta.3 The monk ... known as the Rupdrupa Vibhdga, and a Pordna tika on Anuruddha' s Ndmarupa pariccheda.6 Vimalabuddhi Thera of the same ...
The Maha-Bodhi

The Maha-Bodhi

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Among the scholarly Germans who have joined the Sangha in Ceylon perhaps the most noteworthy is Bhikkhu Nyanatiloka who is the Abbot of a monastery at Dodanduwa where the inmate* are mostly Germans. Bhikkhu Nyanatiloka, as our  ...
Kaccāyana Pāli Grammar Vol. 2:

Kaccāyana Pāli Grammar Vol. 2:

A. Thitzana

In Apādāna'tthakathâ, II (the commentary to Apādāna texts which is like the biographic accounts about special deeds in the past lives of eminent disciples of Buddha), there is some remarkable account regarding Venerable Mahā Kaccāyana ...
Medical Directory

Medical Directory

Cartermill

MRCPsych 1989. Sen. Regist. Fechar ) Maham Use Day Hosp Leeds.; Late SHO Н-згог Hosp. ... Egyptian & Panarab Psychiat. Assn. ABDELRAHM AN, Abdelrahman Abdelmageed Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Mater Infirmorum ...
The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory

The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory

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6 April Movement in Egypt see April 6 Movement Abbéde SaintPierre 110 Abdelrahman, MahaM. 22 accountability ofNGOs 3, 77–79,136, 151;rising calls for159–161; NGO bridging and161–163; in traditional literature163, 166–167; ...
Land of Strangers

Land of Strangers

Ash Amin

Judging these developments as dangerous, this book offers a counter-argument by looking to relations that are not reducible to local or social ties in order to offer new suggestions for living in diversity and for forging a different ...
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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... but “to allow certain tendencies in modern society to spin forward without the brake of sentiment and humaneness.”3 3. Binary Oppositions: Dystopias dramatize the eternal conflict between individual 82 AMIN MALAK ON ATWOOD IN THE ...
Fordsburg Fighter: The journey of an MK volunteer

Fordsburg Fighter: The journey of an MK volunteer

Cajee, Amin

The book makes a significant contribution to the hidden history of exile, and documents Cajee's emotional odyssey from idealism to disillusionment.
Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews

Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews

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Thanks for sending the interesting piece by Amin Malak!2 He has ingeniously put together those 2 old papers to credit me with a theory of fiction! In fact (of course) I have none—except that I think people shd write well! Also he touchingly ...
Placing the Social Economy

Placing the Social Economy

Ash Amin

This book provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy.
Cities for the Many Not the Few

Cities for the Many Not the Few

Ash Amin

Cities for the many not the few reflects on the development of policy towards cities so far, by asking some of the bigger questions about how we might imagine cities in this new century.
Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran

Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran

Amin Saikal

What solutions can be taken to ensure regional security? An informed and balanced overview on a troubled region, this book will fascinate general readers and prove essential reading for specialists.
A Global History of Architecture

A Global History of Architecture

Mark M. Jarzombek

... Anthony Vidler, Arindam Dutta, Gail Fenske, Maha Yahya, Sibel Bozdogan, Alfred B. Hwangbo, Jonghun Kim, Hadas Steiner, Annie Pedret, Jorge Otero- Pailos, Reinhold Martin, Franz Oswald, Brian McLaren, Kyoko Tokuno, Patricia Ebrey, ...
Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

Ash Amin

In this book, these questions of the dynamics of innovating/learning through practices of knowing, and the management of the interface between transactional and knowledge imperatives, are approached in a cross-disciplinary and empirically ...
Balthasar's Odyssey

Balthasar's Odyssey

Amin Maalouf

In 1665, with prophecies and portents fortelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation.
Cancer Stem Cells

Cancer Stem Cells

Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar

Biochim Biophys Acta 1377, M25–37. Uddin, S.,Bavi, P., Siraj, A.K., Ahmed, M., AlRasheed, M., Hussain, A.R., Amin, T., Alzahrani,A., AlDayel, F., Abubaker, J., etal. (2010a). LeptinR and its associationwithPI3K/AKT signalingpathwayinpapillary ...
Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

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Ash Amin, Joanne Roberts. Prologue: Community. of. Practice. Then. and. Now. Paul Duguid On the last morning of the workshop from which this book emerged, the participants were asked to give their understanding of a community of ...
Weak States, Strong Societies: Power and Authority in the ...

Weak States, Strong Societies: Power and Authority in the ...

Amin Saikal

Karima Laachir Introduction State–society dynamics in Morocco and Algeria are complex and multilayered and must be contextualized within the historical, political, and social trajectories of the two countries. These dynamics have evolved ...
Reforms in Islamic Education: International Perspectives

Reforms in Islamic Education: International Perspectives

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Indira Falk Gesink Introduction Nineteenthcentury Egypt seethed with debates on the content of education. As one Egyptian remarked, 'the whole nation was occupied with it' (Amin, 1979, p. 195). There were two primary venues of formal ...
2005 LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations: U.S. public companies

2005 LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations: U.S. public companies

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