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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"post-revolution"”.
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Mobile technology and women’s empowerment in post-revolution Egypt
This study examines how young Egyptian women are accessing and utilising mobile technology to contribute to their socio-economic empowerment. Toward that end, this project employed qualitative interviews to discover women’s lived experience with mobile phones and report their narratives around its …
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Dynamic alliances : political economy of labor organization in post-revolution Egypt
The last decade in Egypt has witnessed significant innovations in the structure of social organizations spurred by the fraying of central government legitimacy. Within this dense network of new social actors independent labor unions have emerged as some of the more innovative groups, commanding …
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From Maqām to Makam: In Search of Syria’s Post-Revolution Cultural Imaginary in Turkey
This thesis explores musical manifestations of forced migration focusing on the experiences of Syrian musicians and artists in Turkey. Concentrating on key urban centres in Turkey (Istanbul and Gaziantep), I draw on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with displaced Syrian musicians employing …
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The evolution of national urban development policies and strategies in Brazil : an institutional perspective of the post-revolution years
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies, 1987.
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Identities on the line : youth, internet use, and citizenship in Kyrgyzstan
… sites of citizenship in authoritarian-leaning, post-Soviet, post-revolution Kyrgyzstan. The country's evolving digital media, along with its relatively nascent, volatile democracy, provide an important non-Western context for the study of how young people relate to Internet media and of …
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Translating, Adapting, And Performing Opera In Eighteenth-Century Cosmopolitan Europe: Lorenzo Da Ponte At The King's Theatre
… period of political tension between Britain and post-Revolution France, four French operas were presented at the King's Theatre in Italian translations attributed to the poet Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838): Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Monsigny's La belle Arsène, and …
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Modernity in Miniature: Maoism and the Beijing Department Store
… embedded in the world’s largest Communist revolution. By looking at the urban planning decisions behind constructing a colonial form in the center of the socialist capital, I attempt to unravel the complex intersection of economic development and egalitarian mass action in the early Maoist …
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La biodiversité alimentaire : sa mesure, ses conditions d’accès et le rôle des politiques : cas de la Tunisie
… in a difficult socio-economic context of post-revolution as in Tunisia.
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If Not for Her Sex: The Mysterious Education of American Women, 1750-1850
… I decided to focus my study on the first women’s post-secondary school: the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Other resources unearthed curriculums of both the Moravian Seminary for Young Women and Mount Holyoke. I looked into their archives to understand who their …
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Sacred A Cappella Composition in France from Pius X to Vatican II
… summary of Church and State relations (post-Revolution through and just beyond the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71) precedes an v examination of nineteenth century scholarly rediscovery and implementation of authentic plainsong in worship in addition to the strengthening of conservative …
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The Double Edge: Contradictory Functions of Civil Society Organizations in the Tunisian Democratic Process
… the impact of civil society organizations in post-revolution Tunisia. My research will also advance the use of Advocacy Coalition Framework in future scholarship by delivering a comprehensive study of Tunisia, which future scholars may use as a basis for new comparative case study work and …
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Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture amongst Health Care Workers in the Hospitals of Northeast Libya
… Phase 1 was conducted prior to the Libyan revolution. This was a quantitative research study, which used the Survey of Hospital Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) that was developed by the US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ, 2004). Phase 2 was conducted post revolution and it …
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Empirical Essays in Earnings and Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
… welfare and female labor force participation in post-Revolution Iran. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 and a number of subsequent macro shocks dealt a huge blow to Iran's economy. In this paper we ask the question of how families and individuals have fared through these tumultuous times. …
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Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art
… Granada, Nicaragua, is creating a contemporary, post-revolutionary path that is distinct from yet informed by its revolutionary antecedents. In essence, his art is a literal and figurative bridge between war and healing. Critical research to date, however, has not considered the rhetorical …
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Normalization Policies with Cuba: Implications for Political and Economic Reform
… Decades of mutual hostility arising from Cuba’s post revolution adoption of an economic system that emulated that of the Soviet Union, along with the long history of U.S. interference in Cuba’s domestic and international affairs that predated the Castro revolution and continued afterward, have …