he majority of families would rather have their daughters in an unfulfilling, even miserable marriage, convinced that she will somehow find a magical way to adapt, than see her alone
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How Egypt is keeping its women trapped in zombie society - Your Middle East - 0 views
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Female independence is looked down on,
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true religious scholars are the first to reject any form of overt or clandestine female oppression
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there is hope
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intellectual women today stand in solidarity
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woman's marital status is mutually exclusive from her value and right to lead a healthy, fulfilling life of her own.
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suffering economy
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women
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society
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spinsterhood
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marriage in Egypt really means.
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trapped
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declining marriage rate in Egypt,
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“transforming her into a commodity for the highest bidder.”
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family to be the pillar of one's success
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pros and cons,
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codependence is highly favorable in the Middle Eas
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typical Egyptian female's life, is to pursue an auspicious college degree
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regarded as a supporter or sidekick,
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“...an archaic notion that defines a woman's value by her husband's status”
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improve her chances of finding a proper suitor
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lifelong purpose of securing a husband.
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he standard sequence of events for a typical Egyptian female's life, is to pursue an auspicious college degree (to improve her chances of finding a proper suitor, and assist her future children with their studies), possibly add to her assets by acquiring a mediocre job for a year or two (under the pretext of killing time and elevating her practical wisdom), and eventually fulfill her lifelong purpose of securing a
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ones who suffer are those who can't find a “star.”
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pressure from three distinctive sources
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their rights and full potential, desperately seeking approval before they reach their “expiration date.
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“Stepford wife model”,
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incompatible matc
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transforming her identity, s
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driven towards more extreme measures.
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parents employing psychological abuse
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subject to such scrutiny
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generation of women
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oblivious t
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conforming comes naturally to a lot of women,
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On one hand
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(parents-peers-society
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quoting religious commandments promoting marriage,
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coerce their daughters
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into submission
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threat of eternal damnation
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(should she fail to perform this role and still wishes to enjoy her life then she will have indeed committed sacrilege and is a covertly regarded as a disgrace regardless of any other achievement)
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peer-pressure;
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still under the impression that exceptions do not exist .
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“business marriages”
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Egyptians have a problem with evolution
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persecute anomalies
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educated middle class that crowns the highest rate of unmarried wome
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women can hardly take care of themselves and that is the norm.
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I enjoyed this article because it uses terminology that is not typically associated with this topic. The author compares Egyptian women to zombies, stating that they must "play-dead" or be "obliterated and shunned."
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Egypt News, Egypt Current Events, Modern Egyptian Society, Egyptian Tourism | Modern Eg... - 0 views
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passed a law allocating a quota of 64 seats in the lower house to women
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The new law will give women more than 12 percent of the seats in an expanded parliament after the next election in 2010.
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women registered for voting increased from 18 percent in 1986 to 39.8 percent in 2007;
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30 women were appointed as judges presiding over family courts;
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25.7% of top management positions in the state are held by women
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49 percent of students enrolled in universities and higher education institutions;
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• There was a significant increase in the proportions of mothers assisted at delivery by medical provider - from 61.5 percent in 2000 to 78.6 percent in 2006;
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The percentage of women who gave birth at an age younger than 18 decreased from 23.7 in 1992 to 20.4 in 2000 then to 15.8 in 2005.
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This site stats that women's rights have improved over the years. A new law made in 2010 gave women 12% of he seats in Parliament. -
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This piece talks about women in politics, voting, and it public positions. It also gives facts dealing with women's health and education.
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Schooling in a crisis: the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey - ODI HPN - 0 views
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The Syrian civil war has created one of the largest and most intense episodes of human suffering of the early twenty-first century.
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387,883, with 200,039 living in government camps and 164,143 living in rented apartments
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Turkeys efforts to meet the needs of refugees have been spearheaded by the Afet ve Acil Durum Yonetimi Baskanligi
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majority of refugees are women and, especially, children; of the 200,000 refugees in Turkish camps, about 60% are children.
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t was left to him to find tents, wooden flooring, carpets and paving bricks, desks, chairs, drawing boards, teaching aids and, of course, textbooks
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urkish Red Crescent
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acquired through AFAD channels a
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egging
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he result
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ten large tents with floors
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drawing boards
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electricity
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computer projectors.
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limate control consisted of large fans
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he pre-school director in Islahiye Camp used empty office and storage space in the warehouse to house five rooms full of loud young children
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preschools enjoyed the largest proportion of age-group participation.
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camp schools are administered by Turks
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curricula are not recognised or sanctioned by the Turkish education authorities, and so licenced Turkish teachers cannot be assigned to them.
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amp education directors rely heavily on volunteers from among the refugees themselves
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time and instruction with the children is often inconsistent
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not be able to teach in Arabic
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There is little incentive for parents to commit their children to learning a new language
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Closely related to the issue of language is the curriculum
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eenage students in the camps generally do not have access to the secondary schooling
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Indeed, one source of tension between Syrian parents and the Turkish authorities has been the Syrian demand for special classes for advanced students whose preparations for university entrance exams were interrupted by the war.
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Syrian schools have opened outside of the camps with funding from the local government,
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using the Syrian curriculum and books salvaged from Syrian schools and reproduced
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Gaziantep
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namely Syrian demands for the separation of the sexes in classrooms
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Syrian parents also tend to insist that their daughters wear headscarves (hijab) in public and in schools, while it is illegal for Turkish teenage girls to cover their hair at school.
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Tensions over the separation of the sexes, curriculum and language of instruction are compounded by the politics of Syrians refugee status
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y contrast, the Turkish government chose not to officially recognise the Syrians as refugees as defined by UNHCR, and did not ask UNHCR to register the newcomers as refugees.
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officially designate Syrians as refugees would limit Turkeys involvement in the Syrian civil war,
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Turkey has allowed arms and non-lethal aid through its territory to supply the Free Syrian Army
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here are also concerns that Syrians, desperate for income, take jobs at lower wages than Turks
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Even guests can outstay their welcome, and with no end in sight to the civil war and no prospect of a return of Syrians to Syria, Turks are beginning to question how long they can sustain their assistance. I
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une 2013 AFAD began accepting offers of financial and other aid from outside agencies, including UNHCR and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
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The schools developed in Syrian refugee camps in Turkey provide valuable models for establishing schools for rapidly growing refugee populations.
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The next critical challenge for Syrian education in Turkey is what to do with the growing number of Syrian teenagers who need to finish their high-school studies at accredited schools in order to compete for places at universities in Turkey or elsewhere.
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This was probably the most interesting article I have read about education in the MIddle East. It is from the "Humanitarian practice Network". This article is about Turkey and the Syrian refugees, who are not documented as refugees, and the growing desire for improvements to education. Right now, the education which is in place for Syrians is adequate for a temporary stay of preserving knowledge. It is not designed to be used long term, to advance students, or to prep them for universities. This article looks at those issues and tensions which are happening currently in Turkey
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