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Item Building M&E Capacity for SFSD: Promising Practices, Assessment of Current System, and Recommendations for the Future(Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2016-06) Dyna Barroso, Felipe; Sarode, Trupti; Yu, YueSawiris Foundation for Social Development is an organization that funds employment training programs in Egypt. Currently, it does not have effective evaluation method towards the programs it support. Based on observations of the current operation of evaluation, an evaluation plan and recommendations are made to improve the implementation of program evaluation.Item Camouflage and Confrontation: The Trajectories of Musicians Cairokee and Ramy Essam in post-Tahrir Square Egypt(2021-06) Opatz, JoshuaThis study examines the music videos of two prominent musicians of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Cairokee and Ramy Essam. Furthermore, it charts the career trajectories of these two musicians and the changes in their artistic output as they go through the aftermath of that revolution up until the present day. Through a long term, multi-modal, close reading analysis, this study asserts that the two artists have slowly diverged from their common start at the beginning of the protests and Tahrir Square, Cairokee moving in a more commercial direction as a sort of camouflage for their political views and activism and Ramy Essam continuing to directly confront the Egyptian state in his music after his exile from Egypt. Furthermore, this study asserts that these divergent results were in part the result of the different class backgrounds the subject artists came from.Item Christians of the Western Desert in Late Antiquity: the fourth-century church complex of Ain el-Gedida, Upper Egypt.(2009-06) Aravecchia, NicolaThis dissertation examines the fourth-century church complex excavated, between 2006 and 2008, at Ain el-Gedida, in the Dakhla Oasis of Upper Egypt (project directed by Professor Roger Bagnall). The church and the set of interconnected rooms that form the complex are one of the earliest examples discovered in Egypt thus far. Therefore, they provide valuable information on the development of Christian public architecture, not only in the region of the Western Desert but also throughout Egypt. Furthermore, the uncommon layout of the church itself, its location within a cluster of rooms serving more utilitarian functions, and the evidence of different phases of substantial architectural alterations make the complex a particularly significant case study. One goal of this dissertation is not to discuss the church complex as an isolated building, but to contextualize it within the topographical framework of the settlement. The archaeological evidence from the complex is not presented in the form of a standard report; rather, it is used to approach more general issues, regarding the chronology of the site, its abandonment, and the nature of the settlement, particularly the social structure of its inhabitants. This work first examines the architectural history of the complex and sheds light on its different phases, thanks to the study of the evidence gathered in the field. Furthermore, it discusses the results of comparative analysis between the church of Ain el-Gedida and other examples of Early Christian architecture inside and outside Egypt. In particular, it emphasizes the considerable typological similarities shared with the Small East Church at the nearby site of Ismant el-Kharab (ancient Kellis). The investigation of the typological origins of the church of Ain el-Gedida includes comparisons with the earliest known examples of Christian architecture, even from relatively distant regions, such as Dura Europos and its well-known domus ecclesiae. Furthermore, methods of spatial analysis, in particular access analysis, are applied to the church complex and its immediate surroundings, with the aim of investigating patterns of access control and use of space at the site in Late Antiquity. The results are offered as a valuable ingredient in typological analysis, integrating the available archaeological evidence. In its last section, this dissertation examines issues of chronology, both relative and absolute, in relation to the church complex. It also takes into consideration the highly debated question concerning the nature of the complex and, more in general, of the site of Ain el-Gedida, with the goal of shedding light on its people and their social identity. In addition to the monastery/village readings, originally brought forth by scholars, further interpretations are proposed, analyzing the available evidence in favor or against any of them.Item Competing and contesting constructions of ‘modern’ womanhood: A vertical case study examining the effects of international development discourse on marriage and education in rural Upper Egypt(2015-05) Sallam, MohamedIn the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) education is widely understood to play a key role in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment. In the MENA region generally, and Egypt in particular, "early-marriage" is implicated as one of the main barriers to educational access for girls living in rural areas. In 2001 inspired by the Egyptian Government's commitment to the principles of the United Nations Girl's Education Initiative (UNGEI), Population Council in Egypt developed Ishraq, a literacy and life-skills program targeting rural and adolescent out-of-school girls in Upper Egypt. This dissertation examines how conceptions of womanhood are framed at varying levels of the international development landscape, and the extent to which they affect and are affected by national policy considerations (represented by the UNGEI and the Ishraq Program) and local understandings around education and marriage in rural Upper Egypt. This research is guided by the assumption that education policy formation is grounded in particular values regarding the role and purpose of education for girls. Through utilizing a vertically-oriented design, this dissertation explores how international and national policy discussions come to shape the construction and implementation of development programs targeting girls at local levels. Emerging from my conversations, interviews, and many observations with former Ishraq participants, program stakeholders, and other young women in rural Upper Egypt - are varied experiences and understandings that participants related regarding what it means to be a "modern" woman in rural Upper Egypt during this current revolutionary moment. What is revealed is an interplay between transnational development discourse and how particular women in rural Upper Egypt women engage in the social contests concerning marriage and education. The experiences and understandings of participants situated at the most local levels suggest a dynamism and complexity around these social contests that is all but left out of the prevailing policy documents, program materials, and among the views of those responsible of the funding and design of the Ishraq program. Moreover, participants experiences with safety and security in rural Upper Egypt during this most recent period of political transition appears to be contributing to the further isolation of rural communities.Item Cross-cultural influences on the MABC-2 test for Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): A Middle Eastern perspective(2016-12) Hassan, MohamedThis study examined specific aspects of the reliability and validity of age band 2 of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children – Second Edition (MABC-2, Henderson, Sugden, & Barnett, 2007) in Egypt. Eighty-nine children participated in the study (54 boys and 35 girls), age between 7 and 10.8 years (x ̅=8.8 and sd±1.2). Cronbach’s alpha for each item and item-total correlation were used to determine internal consistency; inter-rater reliability of the MABC-2 estimated using Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC). Correlation coefficients between test items, subdomains, and total test scores were computed to evaluate the validity of MABC-2. Cronbach’s alpha for parents and teacher’s responses, and total test scores evaluated the level of agreement of the Arabic version of the checklist scores. The alpha value of all eight items together was moderate but acceptable (r=0.73). The correlation between each test item and the total score were moderate except for two items. The ICC of inter-rater reliability for each test items was excellent (all above 0.90) except for on item. The correlation coefficients between test items and subdomains were moderate, and the relationships between subdomains and total test scores were strong. There was a strong relationship between teachers and parents responses to the checklist. It was concluded that both the reliability and validity of age band 2 of MABC-2, were acceptable, but some adjustments are needed to improve the psychometric properties of the test for its use in Egypt. Responses to the checklist indicated that teachers were more accurate in their observations than those reported by parents.Item Egypt - Sustainable horticulture crop production(2010-02-02) Mathey, MeganItem Evaluating United States Policy Toward Egypt fromt he 2013 Military Coup to the 2014 Presidental Elections(Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2014-08-13) Elmasry, Khalid