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Laila Doss Oral History
No full textLaila Doss, a notable social activist in the area of women’s health in Egypt, was an undergraduate and graduate student at the American University in Cairo in the 1970s and 1980s, while she was in her sixties. Born in Upper Egypt and raised in Zamalek in Cairo, she speaks about her family background (especially her father Tawfik Doss, a lawyer, land owner, and government minister), including the family’s elite connections. She recalls her strict Catholic school education and then at the more open-minded American College for Girls. Doss relates family pressure to marry, which she resisted along with other social restrictions on Egyptian women. With university education discouraged, she tells of entering the field of social work in the 1930s, including a program of visiting poor neighborhoods housing families affected by sicknesses like tuberculosis, and her involvement with the Tahsin al-Saha [Women’s Organization for Health Improvement]. Doss tells of the centers the group operated, initiatives in health and family planning, fundraising efforts supported by celebrities, and the group’s openness to people regardless of religion. Her continuing work with children later in her career, as well as international travel and conferences, are discussed as well. Laila Doss tells of pursuing BA and MA degrees at AUC while in her sixties, covering her study of literature, classroom experiences, and her interactions with student classmates decades younger than her
Hāḏā ^Kitāb Alf laila wa-laila min al-mubtadāʾ ila ʾl-muntahā
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Breslau, Bei Josef Max & Comp.In arab. Schrift, arab
Hāḏā ^Kitāb Alf laila wa-laila min al-mubtadāʾ ila ʾl-muntahā
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Breslau, bei Ferdinand HirtTeilw. in arab. Schrift, arab
Hāḏā Kitāb Alf laila wa-laila min al-mubtadāʾ ila ʾl-muntahā
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Breslau, bei Ferdinand HirtTeilw. in arab. Schrift, arab
Hāḏā ^Kitāb Alf laila wa-laila min al-mubtadāʾ ila ʾl-muntahā
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Breslau, Bei Josef Max & Comp.In arab. Schrift, arab
Is Diaspora the Solution for Women to Obtain their Social Rights? A study of Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan
No full textThis study discusses Arab diasporic women’s resistance against cultural and social oppression on several aspects of women’s lives, such as education and the daily life in Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan (2003). It also discusses the role of the Arab diasporic women in the West in confirming or resisting such oppressions. The study also illustrates that although diasporic experiences in the West helped Arab women uproot/resist social and cultural oppressions, in some other cases, diasporic experiences helped reinforce the consistency of such oppressive practices. Laila Halaby in West of the Jordan provides several examples of the heterogeneity of the Arab diasporic women\u27s identity/ psychology. For instance, Soraya, one of the four main characters, is introduced as an example of those women who gain freedom in the diaspora, while Khadija, in contrast, experiences more pressure due to her being in the diaspora
Transient studies of oxygen reduction at microelectrodes
No full textOur group has previously reported the successful development of a steady state microelectrode sensor for the determination of dissolved oxygen concentrations in sea water. The work presented here underpins the development of a fast oxygen sensor for oceanographic applications; the overall aim is to determine the best conditions to measure dissolved oxygen concentrations with microdiscs on a time scale ranging from sub milliseconds to seconds. Previous studies with rotating disc and microelectrodes have shown how the apparent number of electrons, napp, varies between 4 and 2 as the steady mass transfer coefficient increases. The present study also aims to provide insight into the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and in particular to probe whether and how napp, depends on the time scale of the reaction. This thesis will describe the results of transient amperometric experiments recorded with microdisc electrodes. The experiments were carried out with different size Pt microdisc electrodes, using fast scan cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and sampled current voltammetry. Model experiments were first conducted with ferrocene, FeCp2, in acetonitrile to validate the experimental approach. Subsequent model experiments were conducted with hexaammineruthenium (III) chloride, Ru(NH3)6Cl3, in aqueous chloride solutions. The ORR was also probed in aqueous chloride solutions. Experiments were also systematically conducted in absence of redox couple to investigate the role of background processes in determining the overall amperometric response over the different time scales considered. Where possible, fast scan voltammograms, chronoamperograms and sampled current voltammograms were compared to theoretical expressions or simulations. The work will also describe attempts to develop a potentiostatic conditioning waveform capable of pre treating the microdisc electrode in order to produce reliable oxygen reduction chronoamperograms. Various coatings were used for simultaneous determination of dopamine and oxygen species for biological application. The conditioning waveform at bare electrode was found to give more reproducible ORR amperometric response than the coatings alone
Hāḏā ^Kitāb Alf laila wa-laila min al-mubtadāʾ ila ʾl-muntahā
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Breslau, bei Ferdinand HirtTeilw. in arab. Schrift, arab
Hāḏā ^Kitāb Alf laila wa-laila min al-mubtadāʾ ila ʾl-muntahā
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Breslau, bei Ferdinand HirtÜberw. in arab. Schrift, arab
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