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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
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Impact of social media on political participation of Egyptian youth

, 2014
This study aims at examining the role played by social media in empowering and encouraging the Egyptian youth for political participation. Previous studies found that traditional media have not been influential enough to drive youth\u27s political ...
Tayie, Sally Samy
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“As if I Had a Part‐Time Job… to Teach the White Kids”: Racialized Labor and the Extractivism of Linguistic Capital in World Language Education

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent studies exploring mixed heritage language (HL) and second language (L2) classes have documented how these classes tend to prioritize the needs of L2 students while positioning HL students’ linguistic knowledge as a resource for their L2 peers.
Rima Elabdali
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Disengaged and disaffected young people: surviving the system [PDF]

, 2012
There are counter narratives of youth as at risk and as buoyant and agentive. The article maps the conceptual terrain concerning resilience, wellbeing, buoyancy, enjoyment and happiness and selects two factors related to the successful navigation of ...
Jacky Lumby, Lumby, Jacky
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The rise of the ecocentric right to a healthy environment before human rights courts in Africa and Latin America

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines jurisprudence from key African and Latin American human rights bodies regarding the right to a healthy environment, with a focus on recent jurisprudence (2023–2025). It identifies a growing trend of an ecocentric interpretation of the right, which acknowledges that the environment and the life forms within it hold ...
Sonja Kahl
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The importance of small and medium enterprises as one of the country's pillars for creating job opportunities for graduates in the fields of applied arts in application of the Singapore experience.

Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm
The Egyptian economy is one of the more diversified economies in the Middle East tourism, agriculture, manufacturing and services sectors all contribute with semi- equal ratios to the gross national product.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Marwa Ahmed Sadek
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL RUMORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AMONG YOUTH

Journal of Environmental Science
This research aimed at revealing the extent to which Egyptian youth follow environmental topics on social media, to monitor the most prevalent environmental rumors on these platforms, and to determine their level of trust in the environmental topics they
Nehal Allam
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The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
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The Egyptian uprising and April 6th Youth movement split

, 2014
Few months after the Egyptian uprising, a considerable number of April 6th Youth movement announced their split. Knowing that the movement was already suffering from internal disputes over a number of issues, the research problem is centered on ...
El Sayed, Somaia Metwalli
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