Gender studies intersect with several fields of the social and human sciences. They open new spheres for measuring, interpreting, and creating data that can inform inclusive and transformative policies and bring about a necessary sustainable development. Egypt has a long history of feminism; however, the creation of women’s and gender studies programs is relatively recent as it only started t…
Darwish's poetic fraternity includes Federico Garcfa Lorca's canto hondo (deep song), Pablo Neruda's bardic epic range, Osip Mandelstam's elegiac poignancy, and Yehuda Amichai's sensitive lyric responsiveness to the contemporary history of the region. As a poet of exilic being, he resembles C. P. Cavafy, and shares with other poet-exiles of the past century a certain understanding of the exilic…
The aims of this chapter revolve around three arguments. First, in agreement with the contributions this volume consists of, it demonstrates the continu-ing force and reality of the nation form as the only mode of politics world-wide currently. Against arguments seeing the demise of nationalism as integral to the march to globalization, globalism or a cosmopolitan future on the one ha…