Cairo

Mahal they are not solely Islamic, but they are so prevalent in Islamic Art that they have been named “, “the definitive characteristic in all Islamic art," according to Rachida El Diwani, a comparative literature professor at Alexandria University in Cairo, Egypt…

An Iranian Women holds a fierce straight pose and active gaze, we can’t help but stare back. The landmark exhibition “She Who Tells a Story” starts with Iranian photographer, Newsha Tavaokolian’s “Listen” series, photographs of women with blazing tenacity and strength, that captivates viewers and sets the tone for critical discourse of 80 works by 12 Iranian and Arab women. Using provocative and a new documentary approach, the collection displays interwoven (?) narratives of the political,…

In Politics of Piety, Saba Mahmood does an amazing job at portraying the women’s mosque movement in Egypt in a new, less reductionistic light as opposed to the conventional approaches used by many scholars of feminism and theorists of agency. While Mahmood’s book revolves around these popular piety movements of the 90s, this book is much more than just an ethnographic inquiry; it is a scathing critique of secular liberal feminism, which has at times been exploited to serve imperial projects and…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, one of the greatest writers of the 19th century. The novel depicts the journey an idle and unlawful child takes to get away from his pap and civilization. At the end of his adventures, Huck Finn no longer resembles that naughty kid who fools around the town making troubles, who enjoys himself without caring the feeling of his adoptive mother (Twain 2). These adventures reshape Huck into a fine young man who values friends, justice, and…

Fieldwork challenges are salient in both of Mendoza (2008) and Peterson (2011), as both of them have worked with the youth and in classroom setting, and deconstructed presuppositions that both had or encountered. What is interesting, and perhaps related to my situation, is that Mendoza was categorized as doing “auto-ethnography”, which is in my case critical, and thus not showcasing my optionality will be detrimental to my research. Starting with a surface deconstruction of the sign system used…

"You want DVD? Follow me!" He whispered. This was a bit odd considering the norm was to yell at the top of your lungs. What I should have done was stick with my group. I didn't. The night before, my brother and I climbed out of a 20 story hotel window and walked along the roofline. We couldn't believe our eyes. We peered over the busy streets and layers of vendors. We tried to make a map in our mind of the bazaar woven before us. Miles of markets, smells, honking cars, and of course in the…

Jackie Robinson was born in 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, soon afterwards, his sharecropper father left the family. His mother, Mallie McGriff Robinson, then moved the family to Pasadena, California to find different work. The 1920s were tough on African Americans, especially with the resurgence…

2.2. Methods 2.2.1. Preparation of econazole nitrate nanoparticles The econazole nanoparticles were prepared by nano-spray drying technique. Weighed amounts of econazole nitrate, carriers and stabilizers (table 1) were dissolved in ethanol (10 ml) followed by spraying through the Buchi® nano-spray dryer B-90 (Büchi Labortechnik, Switzerland). The nano-spray dryer was operated using inert loop B-295 system (Büchi Labortechnik AG, Flawil, Switzerland) operated using nitrogen gas with flow rate of…

Robinson. Jackie Robinson was born into a poor family on January 31, 1919. His hometown was Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children and was raised by a single mother. Six months after Jackie’s birth, his father left them saying that he was going to visit his brother in Texas. But for the past couple months before that, he was complaining that he was tired of working on the plantations in Cairo. With that in mind, Jackie’s mother was…

Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was of colossal importance to the development of Islamic militant radicalism and his ideas were a significant foundational support of the establishment and structure of al-Qaeda. Azzam was born in 1941 in Jenin, Palestine, where previously to Azzam’s birth, the British under the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was under the obligation of providing and maintaining in Palestine, a nation for the home of the Jewish people. This declaration was made between the Foreign Secretary…