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“The First to Wake up Played the Music of His Choice” – 5in10 with Rasha Chatta
No full textRasha Chatta, Photo: Private. Rasha Chatta earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from SOAS University of London (2016), with a dissertation entitled “Marginality and Individuation: A Theoretical Approach to Abla Farhoud and Arab Migrant Literature”. She holds an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS and a BA in History of the Middle East and North Africa from Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) and “Classes préparatoires” in Humanities. At SOAS, Rasha has taught courses on Arab women’s l..
Rasha Kardosh's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Rasha Kardosh's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Rasha Kardosh's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Why Open Educational Resources (OER) Are a Game-Changer for College Students
Get PDFThis blog post, written by Rasha Kawar explores the transformative potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. Discussing how OER offers significant cost savings by providing free, accessible textbooks and course materials, alleviating the financial pressures many students face. From a personal perspective, the author reflects on their own experiences with costly textbooks and the frustration of purchasing materials that ultimately went unused. The post highlights how OER enhances student engagement by offering customizable, up-to-date content that can be tailored to course objectives, ensuring more relevant and dynamic learning experiences. Additionally, the author emphasizes how OER can support degree completion by reducing financial stress and enabling immediate access to resources. The blog ultimately advocates for OER as an essential tool for creating a more affordable, engaging, and supportive academic environment for students.
The original blog can be viewed: https://libraries.uta.edu/news-events/blog/why-oers-are-game-changer-for-student
Mapping Digital Media: Egypt
Get PDFThe Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs.Egypt has a young population, high rates of unemployment and inflation, and a long history of state control over the media. In this mix, the rise of digital media has been widely considered an engine of radical social and political change, not least in respect of the popular uprisings that led to the January 25 revolution in 2011.This report suggests that new technologies of communication have had an enabling rather than a determining effect. They have acted as a catalyst to facilitate and accelerate social change already happening on the ground for years. Crucially, these technologies gave unprecedented opportunities for lateral communication and self-expression outside the regime's control.Moreover, the half a million Egyptians who clicked "I am attending the revolution" on Facebook gave each other the feeling that "I am not alone. If I go out on the streets on January 25, I am not going to be with 200 people; I am going to be with thousands, or as it happened, with millions."This report offers a detailed analysis of digitization that chronicles both what has and has not changed in Egypt against a backdrop of unprecedented political and social instability, and the ongoing struggle for democracy
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