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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

The Making of an Egyptian Arab Nationalist

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2001
Thirty years in the making, this ambitious book covers the first forty-three years of the life of Abd al-Rahman Azzam Pasha, the political activist and writer who became the first secretary-general of the Arab League (1945- 1952).
Donald Reid
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy in Islamic political thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper surveys the growth and various phases of and influences on the concept of democracy in the Islamic political thought of the last two centuries. Among the thinkers covered in the survey are Rifa'a Tahtawi (1801-73), Khairuddin at-Tunis (1810-99)
Tamimi, Azzam S.
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Vitruvius’ idea on character: somelessons for design students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Ponencia presentada a Session 3: Educación y arquitectura en las universidades / Architectural education in the ...
Asfour, Khaled
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Private Network Realignment: State Strategies Versus Market‐Driven Globalization in the Subsea Cable Network

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the subsea cable network, which carries the vast majority of global internet traffic, is developed, owned, and operated by private corporations. In an era of growing global tensions, states have come to view these cables as critical to their interests. The article addresses the disconnect between statecraft‐centric explanations and the
Joscha Abels
wiley   +1 more source

History of Bonaparte’s Egyptian Campaign in Modern Historiography

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
In this article, the author presents a comprehensive analysis of the most recent foreign publications on the history of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, published over the past five years.
Alexander Victorovich Tchoudinov
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Accessing Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Teach Financial and Managerial Accounting: A Review and Recommendations

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial and managerial accounting (FMA) courses are critical courses that give first‐year students their first taste of technical accounting content. This paper surveys 20 years of literature in five specialist accounting education journals to draw out research‐informed instructional strategies and associated recommendations on their use and
Sanobar Anjum Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

Future vision for development of handicraft knitting to meet the needs of contemporary society

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018
None of us know the beginnings of the traditional handicrafts that the needs of the communities have called for. It has become one of the constants of our ancient heritage and the treasures of its people that cannot be removed from memory no matter how ...
Rawia Abdel Baqi
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