Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian Documentaries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Van de Peer
Keyword(s):  
Young Female ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
First Case ◽  
Short Films ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Female Filmmakers ◽  
Insight Into

The first case study deals with the ‘mother’ of Egyptian documentary making Ateyyat el Abnoudy, and traces her career as a lawyer, journalist and filmmaker. As a pioneer of politically engaged and socially preoccupied documentary, she has influenced many young female filmmakers. Since the early seventies, her films, both short and feature length, have been celebrated throughout the world at festivals and retrospectives, but remain controversial in Egypt itself. This case study looks in detail at her early short films, Horse of Mud (1971), Sad Song of Touha (1972) and The Sandwich (1975), as well as feature length documentaries Permissible Dreams (1982), Responsible Women (1994) and Days of Democracy (1996). Dealing with the lower classes, women’s issues, education and illiteracy among women, their personal status and their political situation in Egypt, the films reflect a concern with the subaltern woman. The filmmaker’s concern with the subaltern woman stems from an intellectual preoccupation with inequality and a professional insight into the unwillingness of the state to deal with women’s problems.

Wounded Because of Religion: Identifying the Components of Gender-Specific Religious Persecution of Christians

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-141
Author(s):  
Helene Fisher ◽  
Elizabeth Lane Miller ◽  
Christof Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Central African Republic ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Emerging understanding of gender-specific religious persecution in some of the world’s most difficult countries for Christians offers timely insight into complex dynamics in which the church and missions have too often been unwittingly complicit due to limited visibility of the components contributing to these wounds. Fresh research into these deeply wounding global phenomena stands as both a warning and a pointer towards an avenue for effective ministrations by churches and Christian ministries that are working in the most severely affected areas of the world. Drawing on the latest trends identified by World Watch Research, outcomes of the Consultation for Christian Women under Pressure for their Faith, a contemporary case study from Central African Republic, and a biblical narrative, we will explore practical opportunities for a holistic approach to bring preparedness, healing, and restoration for communities under severe pressure for their Christian faith.

On the Harm of Genocide

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Paul Kucharski
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
The Human Condition

My aim in this essay is to advance the state of scholarly discussion on the harms of genocide. The most obvious harms inflicted by every genocide are readily evident: the physical harm inflicted upon the victims of genocide and the moral harm that the perpetrators of genocide inflict upon themselves. Instead, I will focus on a kind of harm inflicted upon those who are neither victims nor perpetrators, on those who are outside observers, so to speak. My thesis will be that when a whole community or culture is eliminated, or even deeply wounded, the world loses an avenue for insight into the human condition. My argument is as follows. In order to understand human nature, and that which promotes its flourishing, we must certainly study individual human beings. But since human beings as rational and linguistic animals are in part constituted by the communities in which they live, the study of human nature should also involve the study of communities and cultures—both those that are well ordered and those that are not. No one community or culture has expressed all that can be said about the human way of existing and flourishing. And given that the unity and wholeness of human nature can only be glimpsed in a variety of communities and cultures, then part of the harm of genocide consists in the removal of a valuable avenue for human beings to better understand themselves.

Bosnia: a new dimension of genocidal rape and its children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Lee
Keyword(s):  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Violent Relationships ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Post War ◽  
Specific Impact

The Bosnian case study is the first of the chosen cases where children born of war were almost exclusively conceived in violent relationships in a conflict which forced the world to realign its understanding of rape as a weapon of war. This chapter explores the specific impact of this gender-based violence perpetrated, among others, during systematic rape campaigns as part of the hostilities, on post-war Bosnian society and on the life courses of children born of rape. As the first case of a conflict that occurred after the passing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the chapter also explores how rights as codified in the CRC are applied in the case of children born of war and how such rights can contrast starkly in comparison to those of their mothers and families.

Talking Technologically in Preschool and School: Three Case Examples

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Fleer
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
The Third ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
First Case ◽  
Insight Into

This paper details three examples of technology education in process. The first case study highlights how an early childhood teacher comes to think about and plan for technology education. A series of diary entries are included to show the progression in thinking. In the second case study, a preschool teacher shows how very young children can participate in technology education. In the third case study a Year 3 teacher reveals how young children can become investigators in a simulated architects studio. The focus is on following the children's technological questions. All three case studies provide some insight into the sort of technological language that can be fostered in early childhood.

scholarly journals Affordability of water supply in Mongolia: empirical lessons for measuring affordability

Water Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gawel ◽  
Katja Sigel ◽  
Wolfgang Bretschneider
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Household Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Residual Income Approach ◽  
Insight Into

Affordability of water services is a pressing water policy issue for both the developed and, in particular, for the developing world. Despite its well-known theoretical shortcomings, affordability analysis of water supply has, up to now, been widely based on the ratio of a household's water expenditure to its income, the Conventional Affordability Ratio (CAR). However, in the housing sector, alternative concepts for measuring affordability have been developed, among them being the ‘Potential Affordability Approach’ (PAA) and the ‘Residual Income Approach’ (RIA). Against this background, this paper compares these three prominent affordability measures (CAR, PAA, RIA) on the basis of an empirical case study of a peri-urban, low-income area in the second largest Mongolian city of Darkhan, using household data from a survey conducted in 2009. Thus we gain insight into both the water-related affordability situation of people in Mongolia, checking the World Bank's finding of an absence of water affordability problems in peri-urban areas in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, as well as into the comparative functionality of different affordability measures. It is shown that affordability problems do occur but have to be distinguished depending on the economic causation. We argue that none of the regarded measures give a satisfyingly contoured notion of affordability properly distinguished from the adjacent problems of poverty and access.

scholarly journals A Bayesian analysis of the total number of cases of the COVID 19 when only a few data is available. A case study in the state of Goias, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Rodrigues Silva ◽  
Wisley Donizetti Velasco ◽  
Wanderson da Silva Marques ◽  
Carlos Augusto Gonçalves Tibiriçá
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
The State ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Government Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Few Data

AbstractThe outbreak of COVID 19 has been provoking several problems to the health system around the world. One of the concerning is the crash of the health system due to the increasing demand suddenly. To avoid it, knowing the total number and daily new cases is crucial. In this study, we fitted curves growth models using a Bayesian approach. We extracted information obtained from some countries to build the prior distribution of the model. The total number of cases of the COVID 19 in the state of Goias was analyzed. Results from analysis indicated that the date of the outbreak peak is between 51 and 68 days after the beginning. Moreover, the total number of cases is around 3180 cases. The analysis did not take into consideration possibles changes in government control measures. We hope this study can provide some valuable information to public health management.

scholarly journals Applied Sequence Clustering Techniques for Process Mining

2011 ◽  
pp. 481-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo R. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Sequence Clustering ◽  
Event Logs ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
First Case ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter introduces the principles of sequence clustering and presents two case studies where the technique is used to discover behavioral patterns in event logs. In the first case study, the goal is to understand the way members of a software team perform their daily work, and the application of sequence clustering reveals a set of behavioral patterns that are related to some of the main processes being carried out by that team. In the second case study, the goal is to analyze the event history recorded in a technical support database in order to determine whether the recorded behavior complies with a predefined issue handling process. In this case, the application of sequence clustering confirms that all behavioral patterns share a common trend that resembles the original process. Throughout the chapter, special attention is given to the need for data preprocessing in order to obtain results that provide insight into the typical behavior of business processes.

GENERAL R.F. ROSEN ABOUT THE AVAR KHANATE

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
B G Aliev
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Sheep Breeding ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Arable Farming ◽  
Insight Into

The article presents a comparative historiographic analysis of the information on the Avar Khanate, available in General R.F. Rosen’s work “Description of Chechnya and Dagestan”. The information relates to various problems of socio-economic position of the Khanate, its structure and administration, relations with the neighboring unions of rural communities, the size of the population and armed forces, the main branches of economy, location of villages and house constructions, natural and geographical conditions, roads running from flat Dagestan to the Khanate. Of particular interest is R.F. Rosen’s information on the political structure and administration of the Avar Khanate. Like a number of previous authors (S.M. Bronevsky, Chrysanth, F.P.Skalon and others), R.F.Rosen wrote that there was public administration in Avariya. The main feature in the description of the Khanate was an excessive exaggeration of shortcomings in the state and development of the Avar Khanate. R.F. Rosen saw only negatives in the way of life of the Khanate. He wrote about people’s insubordination to the khan, his dependence on the People’s Assembly, a small size of the population of the Khanate and its armed forces, bad horse cavalry, complete independence of neighboring societies from the khan, underdevelopment of arable farming, and a relatively poor development of sheep breeding. In his opinion, distant-pasture cattle tending was one of the reasons for poor development of sheep breeding in the Khanate as compared to that in other neighboring peoples. It can be assumed that R.F. Rosen described the Avar Khanate under a strong influence of the description of the Khanate given by F.P. Skalon a year before, who wrote about the similar disadvantages in the state of the Khanate. But no matter how and what R.F. Rosen wrote, his description is of great interest as it helps to provide further insight into the socio-economic and political situation of the Avar Khanate in the 1820-1830s. And it is very important as there are different opinions on the socio-economic development and administrative and political structure of the Avar Khanate, as the analyzed material shows.

Spatial analysis of COVID-19 for the state of Uttar Pradesh, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Meet Fatewar ◽  
Sandeep Kumar ◽  
Shruti Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The State ◽  
Spatial Statistical Analysis ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Impact

The world is struggling to combat COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The pandemic has affected millions of people all across the globe since the first case has been reported in the Wuhan city of China in December 2019. India is the second most affected country in the world with more than 8.5 million confirmed cases (as of 10 November 2020) after USA. India is facing an unprecedented crisis due to the pandemic, leading to the Nation’s economy to a near standstill. The share of COVID-19 confirmed cases in six most affected States of India is approximately 60 percent. The analytical research tries to assess the impact of COVID-19 through spatial-statistical analysis for the state of Uttar Pradesh, which is one of the most affected states by COVID-19 in India. The detailed analysis has been carried out at district level. The impact of pandemic is more in regions (or districts), which are either having metropolis or airports along with high population density and growth rate during the last decade. Furthermore, inadequate number of health infrastructure facilities and low number of testing are some of the major factors making the situation worse in India. The spatial-statistical analysis enables to understand the pattern of spreading of disease by identifying the hot-spot areas, perceiving the trend of transmission of disease spatially, and understanding the extent of the pandemic over a period of time.

“Public Private Partnership:” Lessons from the Brazilian Armaments Industry

1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Franko-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The World ◽  
International Demand ◽  
Military Control ◽  
Defense Firms ◽  
Weapons Systems

In Less than Twenty Years Brazil has become one of the ten largest exporters of conventional armaments in the world. How the Brazilian armaments industry has achieved such success offers a rich case study of an effective division of labor between state and firm. With the state acting as technological agent and ambassador to external markets, the firms have become innovators of internationally competitive armaments systems. Rather than being forced, by military control, to produce highly sophisticated weapons systems, Brazilian defense firms receive support to develop products which cater to an international demand for those conventional armaments which occupy a niche just below the technological frontier defined by the superpowers.

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