392 research outputs found
Review of Jean Said Makdisi, Noha Bayoumi and Rafif Rida Sidawi (eds.), Arab Feminisms: Gender and Equality in the Middle East
No full textReview of Jean Said Makdisi, Noha Bayoumi and Rafif Rida Sidawi (eds.), Arab Feminisms: Gender and Equality in the Middle East, London: I.B. Tauris Publishers 2014, xxxvi + 440 pp., ISBN 978-1-78076-672-
Nefta : une corbeille de sons
No full textArticle publié sur le Carnet de recherche : ZERKA : la source bleue et l'urbanisation des oasis de MéditerranéeBarkani, Abdelaziz; Said, Noha Gamal; Thibaud, Jean-Paul. 2016. « Nefta : une corbeille de sons ». ZERKA : la source bleue et l’urbanisation des oasis de Méditerranée [en ligne], Disponible sur : (consulté le 14 mars 2017).Nefta, un matin d’octobre. Tu es sur la terrasse de l’hôtel Dar Hi et ton regard s’étale à l’horizon. Un plateau avec différents niveaux creuse une corbeille en contrebas. Une invitation à descendre et à la visiter. Tu descends. Après quelques virages tu te retrouves en bas,
Essays on the effect of inflation volatility and institutions on growth and development
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to analyze empirically and theoretically the impact of the decrease in inflation volatility versus the impact of the improvement in institutions on growth and development. The first chapter of this dissertation estimates the effects of inflation and inflation volatility on economic growth in the presence of different degrees of legal and financial institutions. The main contribution of this chapter is to show that while the level of inflation does not have a significant effect on growth, which is in line with previous studies; inflation volatility does significantly impact growth even for countries with moderately high levels on inflation. In addition, improving either legal or financial institutions has a statistically significant positive impact on growth and helps to reduce the negative impact of inflation volatility on growth.
The second chapter analyzes the channel through which inflation volatility and financial institutions affect a country's ability to borrow on international capital markets; which affects their ability to invest and therefore grow. The findings of this chapter show that reducing inflation volatility or improving financial institutions will significantly improve a country's sovereign debt rating leading to a drop in its cost of borrowing, which is to be quantified. One important contribution of this chapter is to show that it is inflation volatility that is important in determining a country's sovereign debt rating rather than the level of inflation which has been argued in the literature.
The welfare implications of the decrease in inflation volatility versus the improvement in institutions are quantified in chapter three. This chapter analyzes a micro-foundation based small open economy model that is used to help fully understand the dynamics of a decrease in inflation volatility and an improvement in institutions for a developing economy. The study finds that the welfare effect of improving institutions and of reducing inflation volatility is large with the largest effect being caused by an improvement in financial institutions. One policy implication of these results is that developing economies can get larger welfare gains from improving their institutions than from reducing inflation volatility.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188)by Noha Emar
Participatory Strategic Foresight Framework: Embracing Future Thinking in Design Education and Community Vision Planning
No full textChanges in society, student expectations, and technology continue to shift the ways in which we learn. The contemporary state of design education is being affected by changes in the professional realm that requires a future thinking-centered design to increase the citizen participation in designing their own future city-environment. As new forces reshape the academic landscape and conversations around educational accessibility pervade public debate, examining existing methodologies of design research and curricula is significant to enhance the student experience and equip them with the skills needed for future professional practice. Future thinking can be seen as a crucial premise to approach solving a problem in an innovative way. It is particularly essential
at circumstances in which challenges are complex, vague, and ambiguous. Any futures-focused effort, strategic foresight, or provocation about an alternate future scenario is a means of exploring and learning from generated possibilities. Design-Futures deal with the role of design in shaping future alternatives. Future thinking incorporates two particular approaches: diverging and converging. It requires both a flexible way of understanding, to come with different thoughts, and know-how to make responsible decisions. This chapter reviews the literature crossing strategic foresight and interior design with the accentuation put on how design students, educators and design practitioners may engage with the future to investigate the challenges to decision-making.
The author has developed a framework crossing the area of service & product design through future thinking, user and community centered design. The framework is structured to educate design practitioners effectively and also empower them to lead the market as change-makers. This paper will present case studies of participatory design workshops that addressed different areas of
concern but were underpinned by a shared approach. Through this framework, conclusion is presented as the elaboration of a futures thinking framework that can contribute to many other design disciplines
Considérations sur l'espace sonore d'une source sacrée: Une figure de la réhabilitation de la médina de Tiznit
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Considérations sur l'espace sonore d'une source sacrée: Une figure de la réhabilitation de la médina de Tiznit
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Popularity of Floorball in the Czech Republic
No full textof bachelor thesis Title of thesis: Popularity of floorball in the Czech Republic Name of the author: Jakub Noha Department: Department of Kinanthropology and Humanities Subject of study: Sports management Head of the thesis: PhDr. Vladimír Janák CSc. Number of pages: 70 Number of enclosures: 1 Year of the Oral defence: 2011 Methodics: electronic questioning, analyse, evaluation and interpretation of facts Key words: Popularity, history and development of floorball, marketing research, electronic questioning, floorball at schools, popularity of floorball Summary: The bachelor thesis is about the research of populartity of floorball in the Czech Republic espacially among rising generation and also about awareness and konwledge of this sport. In the first part there is introduced genesis and development of floorball in the world and in the Czech Republic. There is described in more detail the process of marketing research. The other part presents results achieved by electronic questioning
Victoria K, Delphine Seyrig et moi ou La petite chaise jaune : un matrimoine en conversion d’archives
No full textLe texte lauréat du Prix RFI Théâtre (2019) Victoria K, Delphine Seyrig et moi ou La petite chaise jaune (2021) de Valérie Cachard s’inscrit dans la mouvance de la « littérature hors du livre » (Rosenthal et Ruffel, 2010 : 4), où l’auteur·trice légitime la réception de son texte à travers une performance narrative. Après avoir interrogé la nature et le bien-fondé des archives intimes de Victoria K, lettres extraites de son journal intime abandonné dans sa maison, l’article s’intéresse aux allers-retours entre la fiction et le réel fictionnel qui systématisent une mémoire solidaire de la guerre civile en apparence fragmentaire. La performance du texte à Beyrouth par la dramaturge et son acolyte artistique Hadi Deaibes tend à éroder les dimensions sociopolitiques de l’archivage au profit d’une hybridation des identités scéniques. Cette contribution, coécrite par Noha Nemer et son amie de longue date Valérie Cachard, propose une réflexion sur l’expropriation discursive, esthétique et scénique d’une littérature intimiste.The award-winning text of the RFI Theater Prize (2019), Victoria K, Delphine Seyrig et moi ou La petite chaise jaune (2021) by Valérie Cachard, falls within the trend of “literature beyond the book” (“littérature hors du livre”; Rosenthal and Ruffel, 2010: 4), where the author legitimizes the reception of their text through a narrative performance. After questioning the nature and validity of the intimate archives of Victoria K – letters taken from her diary left behind in her house – the article focuses on the back-and-forth between fiction and fictional reality, which creates a cohesive memory of the seemingly fragmented civil war. The text’s performance in Beirut by the playwright and her artistic collaborator Hadi Deaibes tends to erode the sociopolitical dimensions of archiving in favor of a hybridization of stage identities. This contribution, co-written by Noha Nemer and her long-time friend Valérie Cachard, offers a reflection on the discursive, aesthetic, and scenic expropriation of intimate literature
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