3,074 research outputs found
Arabic Cultural Program - Conversation with the author Hamdi Abu Golayyel
No full textThe Department of Arab & Islamic Civilization\u27s Arabic Cultural Program kicks off the year with an evening conversation with the author Hamdi Abu Golayyel on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 6:00 pm in the Oriental Hall, Tahrir Campus. Abu Golayyel will discuss his collection Cairo\u27s Streets and Stories and will entertain questions from the audience
Becoming Citizens in an Era of Globalization and Transnational Migration: Re-imagining Citizenship as Critical Practice
No full textThis article examines how the perspectives and experiences of Arab American youth from immigrant communities can help educators think about what it means to teach young people to become active participants in the social, civic, and political spheres within and across the boundaries of nation-states. Arab American youths' perspectives are reflective of the transnational nature of their life experiences, as well as the unfortunate ways they have been positioned as enemy-outsiders to the United States in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Listening closely to the experiences and perspectives of these young people yields concrete implications for designing citizenship education that reflects the changing nature of belonging and citizenship. This article proposes that we stop thinking about citizenship primarily in relation to national identifications and begin to see it as a set of critical practices—practices that give young people the tools to work for social change within and across the boundaries of nation-states.This is an electronic version of an article published in Abu El-Haj,T. R., Becoming Citizens in an Era of Globalization and Transnational Migration: Re-imagining Citizenship as Critical Practice. Theory Into Practice. 48(4):274-282, 2009. Theory into Practice is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00405840903192714. This is a post-print copy of the published article.This research was largely funded by a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. This research has also been supported by a Rutgers University Research Council Grant
Streets and Stories: a conversation with Hamdi Abu Golayyel
No full textThe Department of Arab and Islamic Civilization\u27s Arabic Cultural Program kicked off the year with an evening conversation with the author Hamdi Abu Golayyel, on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 6 pm in Oriental Hall at AUC Tahrir Square. Abu Golayyel discussed his collection, Cairo\u27s Streets and Stories, and entertained questions from the audience
A brilliant blackness emerging from the deep Sea: an ancient story of slavery told to repair the future
No full textThe Book of Drexciya tells ancient stories coming to the surface.
The twelve images are part of the project The Drexciyan Empire: five chapters of the first volum from the ancient times to the present. Drexciya can be considered one of the most powerful image of Afrofuturism. Author Claudia Attimonelli and artist Abu Qadim Haqq are together in a dialogue between imagery and theory
Education, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging: Muslim Youth from Transnational Communities and the “War on Terror.”
No full textThis is an electronic version of an article published in Review of Research in Education, 35 (1):29-59, 2011. The published article is available at http://rre.sagepub.com/content/35/1/29.shor
Contesting the Politics of Culture, Rewriting the Boundaries of Inclusion: Working for Social Justice with Muslim and Arab Communities
No full textThis article calls on anthropologists of education to assert a more public voice attacking the ideological purposes to which the concept of “culture” has been deployed following the September 11 attacks. We must support schools, communities, and the media to address the power and politics of race and religion in contemporary social and political contexts, rather than focus primarily on multicultural education about Islamic and Arab “culture.” Finally, this article urges us to expand our knowledge of the processes of social incorporation for Muslim and Arab immigrant youth to include a deeper understanding of how global politics contribute to young people's sense of emerging identities.This is an electronic version of an article published in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 33: 308–316. doi: 10.1525/aeq.2002.33.3.308, available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aeq.2002.33.3.308/abstrac
Needlestick injury among interns and medical students in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No full textABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of needlestick injury (NSI) among interns
and medical students as well as their knowledge of, attitude towards and their protective strategies against
exposure to bloodborne pathogens. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 272 participants using a selfadministered questionnaire. Just over 40% of the participants had experienced at least 1 NSI. Wound suturing
was the most common cause of injury (33.5%), and the highest incidence (55.5%) was in the emergency room.
Failure to report the injury to health representatives was recorded for 48.6% of NSIs. Only 46.7% of the interns had
received the hepatitis B vaccine whereas most of the students (76.8%) had completed their vaccination schedule
(P < 0.001). Participants were found to be at a high risk of NSIs and bloodborne infection
Imagining Postnationalism: Arts, Citizenship Education,and Arab American Youth
No full textThis article explores an Arab American community arts organization as a site for promoting youth civic participation and social activism. Studying a citizenship education project outside the school walls, and focusing on the arts as a medium for this work, foregrounds the role of the symbolic for engaging youth as active participants in democratic society. The article also examines the symbolic political argument for postnational citizenship that the young participants articulated through a film they produced. The original version of the article is published in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 40(1):1-19, 2009, March. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01025.x, available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01025.x/abstractThis research was largely funded by a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. This research has also been supported by a University ResearchCouncil Grant
Investigation of methods of enhancing the performance of propane pre-cooling refrigeration cycles in natural gas liquefaction processes
No full textAn efficient sparse adaptation of the polytope method over Fp and a record-high binary bivariate factorisation
No full textAbstractA recent bivariate factorisation algorithm appeared in Abu-Salem et al. [Abu-Salem, F., Gao, S., Lauder, A., 2004. Factoring polynomials via polytopes. In: Proc. ISSAC’04. pp. 4–11] based on the use of Newton polytopes and a generalisation of Hensel lifting. Although possessing a worst-case exponential running time like the Hensel lifting algorithm, the polytope method should perform well for sparse polynomials whose Newton polytopes have very few Minkowski decompositions. A preliminary implementation in Abu-Salem et al. [Abu-Salem, F., Gao, S., Lauder, A., 2004. Factoring polynomials via polytopes. In: Proc. ISSAC’04. pp. 4–11] indeed reflects this property, but does not exploit the fact that the algorithm preserves the sparsity of the input polynomial, so that the total amount of work and space required are O(d4) and O(d2) respectively, for an input bivariate polynomial of total degree d. In this paper, we show that the polytope method can be made sensitive to the number of non-zero terms of the input polynomial, so that the input size becomes dependent on both the degree and the number of terms of the input bivariate polynomial. We describe a sparse adaptation of the polytope method over finite fields with prime order, which requires fewer bit operations and memory references given a degree d sparse polynomial whose number of terms t satisfies t<d3/4, and which is known to be the product of two sparse factors. For t<d, and using fast polynomial arithmetic over finite fields, our refinement reduces the amount of work per extension of a coprime dominating edge factorisation and the total spatial cost to O(tλd2+t2λdL(d)+t4λd) bit operations and O(tλd) bits of memory respectively, for some 1/2≤λ<1, and L(d)=logdloglogd. To the best of our knowledge, the sparse binary factorisations achieved using this adaptation are of the highest degree so far, reaching a world record degree of 20000 for a very sparse bivariate polynomial over F2
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