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Mary Badawi Oral History
No full textMary Nuala Badawi was a faculty member in the American University in Cairo’s English Language Institute from 1969 to 2003. Having trained to be a teacher in her native Ireland, she tells of coming to Egypt after 1956 to fill a teaching position at the English school in Heliopolis. There she met fellow teacher El-Said Badawi, later a leading AUC Arabic language faculty member, and she tells of going with him to England where he pursued graduate study, and where they married. She recalls their family’s life in Sudan several years later, where both she and her husband had teaching jobs. Badawi relates joining AUC’s English Language Institute as an instructor upon their return to Egypt, and describes the ELI’s leadership (directors and coordinators), facilities (noting the increasingly crowded conditions), personnel (including a shift from mainly native to non-native English speakers, and students (noting changes in their background and mindset over the years). Mary Badawi discusses teaching methodologies in the ELI, including her own adoption of a more flexible, creative “meaningful communication” orientation in place of an earlier prevailing “pattern-practice” method; other practices like computer language labs and extracurricular activities like student trips are also mentioned. She addresses the employment status of ELI instructors, noting drawbacks but also positives like job security and collegiality, and tells about efforts to equalize salaries and benefits between foreign and Egyptian faculty (led by her husband El-Said Badawi). His prominent AUC career is covered as well, including his introduction of a Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language program to parallel the ELI’s Teaching English as a Foreign Language program. Mary Badawi also offers observations on life in Egypt, including issues like government surveillance in and out of the university, street harassment of women, the 1967 and 1973 Wars, and the experience of raising children grounded in two cultures
El-Said Badawi Oral History
No full textEl-Said Badawi was professor of Arabic language at the American University in Cairo from 1969 to 2008, and for long periods serving as Director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad and Arabic Language Institute. He recounts his childhood and education in a Delta village, study at Cairo University’s Dar al-Ulum, and linguistics graduate study in London. His meeting and marriage to an Irish woman, and later AUC faculty member, Mary (Nuala) Badawi, is recalled, with their early family life and work teaching in Sudan. Badawi tells of coming to AUC, hired to teach with the Center for Arabic Study Abroad program in 1969, and his influence on the development of its curriculum and teaching methods (by his account innovative in Egypt and internationally), describing students in the program. The contentious introduction of the Master’s degree program in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in the mid-1970s is addressed, as Badawi recalls relations with other department faculty in the Center for Arabic Studies. He also discusses the coursework and students (including Asian businessmen in the 1980s) of other Arabic language offerings, and he offers a comparison between AUC and other centers of Arabic study in Egypt, the region, and worldwide. Badawi details his close relationship with AUC Presidents Christopher Thoron and Cecil Byrd, as well as other administrators, and tells about aspects of Egyptian political life in the 1970s, like the 1973 War with Israel and delicate relations with the United States, that affected AUC. A comprehensive account is provided of the legal case Badawi spearheaded against AUC’s administration over the change to an earlier retirement age for Egyptian nationals on the faculty but not for foreigners, with discussion of other inequities in compensation and benefits for Egyptian faculty. Other aspects of institutional governance, such as the relationships between faculty, Presidents, and Trustees, are also covered. Badawi also speaks about his research pursuits including the Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic project
Revolution Interview by Alia Badawi
No full textThis is an interview I, Alia Badawi, have conducted with a former AUC student and now an HSBC financial advisor, Salma El-Guindy. The main point of this interview is the Egyptian Revolution of January 25th and the controversial topics and opinions on the subject
Correspondence with Samir Badawi, President of Washington State University Arab Club
No full textLetter from Samir Badawi, President of Washington State University Arab Club to Fayez Sayegh dated November 9, 1960, and Sayegh\u27s response, regarding a speaking engagement at the Arab Club\u27s inauguration
Beza Hadhari Abdullah Badawi dengan Madani Anwar Ibrahim
No full textIstilah ‘Negara MADANI’ yang digunakan oled Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (DSAI) sekarang ini tidak sama dengan konsep Islam Hadhari yang digunakan oleh Pentadbiran Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (TAAB). Tetapi ada sedikit sebanyak pertindihan antara dua gagasan itu. Pertindihan itu mudah sahaja difahami memandangkan bahawa kedua-duanya merujuk kepada idea tamadun dan ketamadunan meskipun istilah tamadun tidak digunakan dalam gagasan Malaysia MADANI yang diilhamkan oleh DSAI
Correspondence with Samir Badawi, President of Washington State University Arab Club, November 21-30 1960
No full textLetter from Samir Badawi, President of Washington State University Arab Club to Fayez Sayegh, dated November 21, 1960, and Sayegh\u27s response dated November 30, 1960, regarding details on a speaking engagement at the Arab Club\u27s inauguration
Badawi: An Academic With a Vision. A Personal Testimony
No full textIn this chapter, the author offers a personal testimony about his interaction with Mustafa Badawi as well as the latter's contribution to the study of both Arabic and English literature. The author remembers the day he returned to Oxford University to take part in a colloquium commemorating Badawi's life and work; it was also the fortieth anniversary of his arrival in Oxford for the first time in March 1973, thanks to Badawi's insight and initiative. He also cites two Egyptian critics who studied in the West before Badawi's generation, Muhammad Mandur and Luwis ʻAwad. In addition, he discusses Badawi's cultural formation and university education, particularly in Alexandria University, and talks about how Badawi opened new venues for Arabic literary criticism and modern Arabic literature in Oxford, and later in London. Finally, the author shares some of the many lessons he learnt from Badawi.</p
Badawi, Mohed Altrad. 2002
No full textHarzoune Mustapha. Badawi, Mohed Altrad. 2002. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1240, Novembre-décembre 2002. Migrants.com. pp. 144-145
On The Unit Dot Product Graph Of A Commutative Ring.
No full textA Master of Science thesis in Mathematics by Mohammad Ahmad Abdulla entitled, "On The Unit Dot Product Graph Of A Commutative Ring," submitted in January 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Ayman Badawi. Soft and hard copy available.In 2015, Ayman Badawi (Badawi, 2015) introduced the dot product graph associated to a commutative ring A. Let A be a commutative ring with nonzero identity, 1 n < 1 be an integer, and R =A x A x ... x A (n times). We recall from (Badawi, 2015) that total dot product graph of R is the (undirected) graph TD(R) with vertices R* = R \ {(0, 0, ..., 0)}, and two distinct vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if xy = 0 [is an element of] A (where xy denote the normal dot product of x and y). Let Z(R) denotes the set of all zero-divisors of R. Then the zero-divisor dot product graph of R is the induced subgraph ZD(R) of TD(R) with vertices Z(R) = Z(R)* \ {(0, 0, ..., 0)}. Let U(R) denotes the set of all units of R. Then the unit dot product graph of R is the induced subgraph UD(R) of TD(R) with vertices U(R). Let n 2 and A = Zn. The main goal of this thesis is to study the structure of UD(R = A x A).College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Mathematics and StatisticsMaster of Science in Mathematics (MSMTH
Muhammad Mustafa Badawi in Conversation
No full textThis chapter presents a 1997 interview with Mustafa Badawi and includes sections relating to his early life and education until 1947 when he was sent to England to pursue further studies in English. Badawi first talks about the years of his early formation in the family, the neighbourhood and his various schools in Alexandria before discussing his cultural formation in the city. He reveals that he decided to specialise in English language in order to deepen his study of English literature so that he could see Arabic literature in the wider context of world literature. Badawi also describes his attitudes towards literature and criticism, which he says involved three essential questions: the relationship between literature and politics; the relationship between literature and morality; and the nature of language and its function in poetry, and consequently the relationship between poetry and science, or between poetry and thought or knowledge in general.</p
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