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Non-kinship family foster care in Egypt
- Author:
- MEGAHEAD Hamido A.
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 41(4), 2017, pp.391-400.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt. While journal readers will be familiar with the issues affecting their own work, they are less likely to know about fostering in other countries. This can be limiting as international comparisons can give practitioners, researchers and educators insights into their own work as well as skills to support children from different cultural backgrounds. The article shows that foster care in Egypt is not a recent development, indeed it dates back to ancient Egypt and the Egyptian kings, but the current legal system was formalised in the first half of the 20th century. While fostering services are usually based on western paradigms, the Egyptian approach has several distinct features due to its development through authentication processes that match services to the needs and cultural backgrounds of the children concerned. Explanations for these differences are given. (Publisher abstract)
Women, micro credit and empowerment in Cairo, Egypt
- Author:
- DROLET Julie
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 54(5), September 2011, pp.629-645.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Micro credit (a small personal loan) has been seen as a useful tool for solving poverty by facilitating entrepreneurship for the poor. This article examined how micro credit programmes can better address women’s aspirations by focusing on more holistic approaches to meet women’s gendered needs. Women’s experiences in a micro credit project were analysed in the context of women’s triple roles of child care, family health and food provision, along with practical and strategic gender needs and notions of women’s empowerment. The study was based on interviews and focus groups with 69 micro credit participants, including women borrowers and staff members from the Group Guaranteed Lending and Savings (GGLS) micro credit programme in Cairo, Egypt. Findings revealed that the participants were happy with the scheme, and the loans were used to buy furniture and televisions, pay for marriages, or just to buy food for children. The women thought it important to be able to spend money themselves. The author concluded, however, that one intervention alone could do little to promote empowerment for Egyptian women.
The challenges of modernization of social work education in developing countries: the case of Egypt
- Authors:
- SOLIMON Hussein H., ELMEGIED Hesham Sayed Abd
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 53(1), January 2010, pp.101-114.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Due to the changes that developing countries are currently facing, social work educators are forced to assess the curricula in order to help societies deal with new waves of social problems. This study explores a number of factors that contribute to the process of modernising social work education in Egypt.
Factors influencing teachers’ attitudes toward personal use and school use of computers: new evidence from a developing nation
- Author:
- SADIK Alaa
- Journal article citation:
- Evaluation Review, 30(1), February 2006, pp.86-113.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study reports on the Arabization and empirical evaluation of two standard scales to assess Egyptian teachers’ attitudes toward personal use and school use of computers. To date, no similar instruments have been translated and empirically evaluated in an Arabic-speaking community. Data provided by a sample of 443 teachers support the reliability and validity of the two Arabic versions and the body of the research evidence, which suggests that computer attitude is multidimensional. The relationship between gender, years of teaching experience, computer use, computer experience, and computer attitudes is also examined. Implications for preservice and in-service teacher preparation in Egypt are provided.
The gift of law: Greek euergetism and Ottoman waqf
- Authors:
- ISIN Engin F., LEFEBVRE Alexandre
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Theory, 8(1), February 2005, pp.5-23.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Modern social and political thought has approached the questions of politics, law, and citizenship from the vantage point of a fundamental divide between the occidental and oriental, or archaic and modern, institutions. This article creates a concept, the gift of law, by staging two gift-giving practices as two historical moments: Greek euergetism and Ottoman waqf. While it is indebted to Mauss, this articulation of the gift of law also owes to the critical interventions of Jacques Derrida and Pierre Bourdieu, who emphasized non-voluntaristic and non-calculative aspects of the gift. The authors argue that both euergetism and the waqf enabled and substantiated legal subjectivities that allocated rights and obligations. Those gift-giving practices establish relationships between various groups and legal authorities that were crucial in the formation of cities as spaces of government, for both citizens and non-citizens alike. With the concept ‘gift of law’, categories ‘oriental’ and ‘occidental’ become problematic.
Building a man on stage: masculinity, romance, and performance according to Farid al-Atrash
- Author:
- ZUHUR Sherifa
- Journal article citation:
- Men and Masculinities, 5(3), January 2003, pp.275-294.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article explores the life and career of male singing star, instrumental talent, and Composer Farid al-Atrash, who created a prototype of the romantic male musical star from the 1930s until his death in 1974. An immigrant to Egypt and a member of a distinctive religious sect, the Druze, he arose from poverty and the invisibility of the previous generation of musicians thanks to his talent, ambition, and investment in his own film productions. A lifelong bachelor, he constructed a popular image with references to the authentic Arab Islamic poetic/historical past and an idealized version of modernity. The author attempts to uncover the psychological rationale of a man whose life goals were shaped by his mother, who was overshadowed by his sister, and who consciously elevated music making to a professionalized art form.
The worms are weak: male infertility and patriarchal paradoxes in Egypt
- Author:
- INHORN Marcia C.
- Journal article citation:
- Men and Masculinities, 5(3), January 2003, pp.236-256.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Male infertility is a major global reproductive health problem, contributing to more than half of all cases of infertility worldwide. Yet women typically bear the social burden of childlessness when their husbands are infertile. This article explores the four major patriarchal paradoxes surrounding male infertility in the Muslim Middle Eastern country of Egypt. There, women in childless marriages typically experience procreative blame, even when male infertility (glossed as “weak worms”) is socially acknowledged. In addition, Egyptian women married to infertile men experience diminished gender identity and threats of male-initiated divorce. Ironically, the introduction of new reproductive technologies to overcome male infertility has only served to increase this divorce potential.
A cross-cultural study of social work students' attitudes toward AIDS policy: implications for social work education
- Authors:
- SOLIMAN Hussein H., MIAH Mizanur Rahman
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 41(1), January 1998, pp.39-52.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Discusses how many policy questions have been raised by the AIDS crisis, touching on the basic moral values in every society. Compares social work students' attitudes and perceptions toward AIDS policy in the USA and Egypt. Social work's role in dealing with AIDS has yet to be defined in Egypt. American social work students have shown comparatively greater knowledge about AIDS that Egyptian students. Exposure to AIDS experience seems to be a significant variable in determining students' attitudes. In general, social work students in the USA and Egypt adopt an advocacy role in responding to the AIDS crisis.
Islamic social transformation: considerations for the social worker
- Authors:
- HAYNES Alphonso W., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 40(3), July 1997, pp.265-275.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Social workers who wish to achieve a culture-competent and sensitive practice should consider the Islamic Social Transformation Model. Based on the Holy Qur'an, the model regards Islam as providing a design for meeting human life needs and giving individuals strength and direction for a righteous and virtuous existence.
Family care of the elderly: social and cultural changes
- Editor:
- KOSBERG Jordan I.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 329p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Takes a global look at care for older people within the family circle, and compares and contrasts global changes in the last decade.