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sgriffi2

Egyptian Center for Women - 0 views

This is a very interesting source that I found when I was going through the resources on the class blog. It also has the original version of the document in Arabic on the website. It details the re...

#women #feminism #womensrights #family

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micklethwait

CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers - 0 views

www.ncte.org/...secondlangwriting

cccc writing composition communication EAL statement

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  • dapting to or adopting North American discursive strategies
  • to understand their characteristics
  • sensitive to their linguistic and cultural needs.
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  • In classes made up exclusively of second language writers, enrollments should be limited to a maximum of 15 students per class.
  • instructors should avoid topics that require substantial background knowledge that is related to a specific culture or history that is not being covered by the course.
  • Writing instructors should look for evidence of a text's rhetorically effective features, rather than focus only on one or two of these features that stand out as problematic.
  • Further, "patchwriting," defined by Rebecca Moore Howard, as the copying of sections of texts, such as phrasings and sentence patterns, is a natural part of the process of learning to write in a second language.
  • We advocate that instructors take extra care when suspecting a second language writer of plagiarism, and take into consideration the student's cultural background, level of experience with North American educational systems, and confidence level for writing in English.
  • Any writing course, including basic writing, first-year composition, advanced writing, and professional writing, as well as any writing-intensive course that enrolls any second language writers should be taught by an instructor who is able to identify and is prepared to address the linguistic and cultural needs of second language writers. 
  • should be based on students’ writing proficiency
  • mainstreaming
  • the literacy support of second language writers needs to extend beyond the composition requirement as well.
  • approaches for designing writing assignments that are culturally inclusive, and approaches for assessing writing that are ethical in relation to second language writing.
  • Therefore, it is imperative that writing centers model and discuss effective approaches for working with second language writers in tutor training, make available reference materials specific to language learners such as dictionaries on idiomatic English, and hire tutors with specialized knowledge in second language writing.
  • Second language writers often come from contexts in which writing is shaped by linguistic and cultural features different from their NES peers. Beliefs related to individuality versus collectivity, ownership of text and ideas, student versus teacher roles, revision, structure, the meaning of different rhetorical moves, writer and reader responsibility, and the roles of research and inquiry all impact how student writers shape their texts.
  • scaffolding, creating benchmarks within larger projects, and incorporating additional resources such as the writing center.
  • to identify strengths second language writers bring to the classroom.
  • With the help of an instructor, second language writers can learn to bridge the strategies they use to communicate socially through digital media to the expectations of the academy. Therefore, instructors need to learn how to proficiently work with the writing tools and within the writing contexts that will help second language writers create these bridges. As in this case, instructors need to be trained to work with various writing media (e.g., computer programs) so that they can take advantage of these pedagogical opportunities.
  • instructors will be better prepared to work with second language students if issues of second language writing and writers are a consistent feature that is re-enforced throughout their training in writing instruction, especially in-service training encouraged of all writing instructors.
  • We recommend that writing programs familiarize themselves with the multilingual populations surrounding their institutions. Doing so not only provides valuable insight into the language experiences of some students in your writing programs, but it also could identify large multilingual populations wishing to matriculate into the college/university. Information on local populations can be collected from the US Census Bureau’s American FactFinder website. Also, websites such as the National Center for Education Statistics provides data on the number of English Language Learners (ELL) receiving special services in area high schools, some of whom might aspire to enter the university one day. Such information can be collected and disseminated on a centrally managed university website for the benefit of both instructors within the composition program and other university faculty.
yperez2

Gender Equality Universally Embraced, but Inequalities Acknowledged - 0 views

www.pewglobal.org/...titudes-2010-Gender-Report.pdf

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  • yperez2 on 03 Mar 15
     
    This report conducted by Pew Research center presents the findings of how many are in support for gender equality in various countries. Among the countries, Egypt can be found with support for women equality being 60%.
  • yperez2 on 03 Mar 15
     
    This report conducted by Pew Research center presents the findings of how many are in support for gender equality in various countries. Among the countries, Egypt can be found with support for women equality being 60%.
jshnide

National Counterterrorism Center | Groups - 0 views

www.nctc.gov/...hamas.html

Hamas Israel anti-terrorism Gaza

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  • jshnide on 23 Feb 15
     
    National counterterrorism center
pvaldez2

Will Egypt's schools break sex education taboo? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East - 0 views

www.al-monitor.com/...-violence-women-campaigns.html

Sex education taboo gender egypt schools middle east #NotAshame

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  • pvaldez2 on 26 Jan 16
     
    Gender Based Violence campaign began Nov. 25. The campaign was launched by the Cairo Center for Development and Tadwein.
  • pvaldez2 on 26 Jan 16
     
    Gender Based Violence campaign began Nov. 25. The campaign was launched by the Cairo Center for Development and Tadwein.
aromo0

The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) | improving the political and legal status of women since 1996 - 0 views

ecwronline.org

women organization egypt rights

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  • aromo0 on 24 Feb 16
     
    This is the site of a Womens Rights Center in Egypt. It has information on various womens rights issues and contains articles, news reports, data, and publications.
hwilson3

Islamophobia and the "Negative Media Portrayal of Muslims" | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization - 0 views

www.globalresearch.ca/...5440451

#islamophobia #Islam #media #middleeast

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  • hwilson3 on 03 Mar 16
     
    This article from the Global Research Center for Globalization looks at the relationship with Islam and it's negative portrayal in the media. This is an important view because it looks at this relationship from both points of view.
  • hwilson3 on 03 Mar 16
     
    This article from the Global Research Center for Globalization looks at the relationship with Islam and it's negative portrayal in the media. This is an important view because it looks at this relationship from both points of view.
irede123

Hezbollah, Syria army thwart ISIS attack near Lebanon border | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR - 0 views

www.dailystar.com.lb/...ttack-near-lebanon-border.ashx

hezbollah syria lebanon

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  • irede123 on 08 May 16
     
    "Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army thwarted an attack by ISIS militants on their posts near Lebanon's border overnight Monday, the Hezbollah-affiliated War Media Center said."
pvaldez2

Egypt Women Against the Coup Marks Women's Day Highlighting Suffering Under Repressive Regime - Ikhwanweb - 0 views

www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php

egypt coup marks suffering regime

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  • pvaldez2 on 22 Mar 16
     
    This article was written during International Women's day and hightlights what women face under repressive regime. "At the hands of the coup regime in Egypt, women suffer horrific crimes including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest, violent rape, displacement, severe torture (often leading to permanent disability), sham military trials, unjust death sentences, enforced disappearances, brutal degrading treatment of political prisoners' wives and daughters while visiting relatives in the military junta's detention centers."
cbrock5654

Turkey's Clumsy Politics and the Kurdish Question - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...rdish-q-20149297242780917.html

ISIL Turkey Kurdistan ISIS PKK Kurds

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  • cbrock5654 on 13 Oct 14
     
    This is an opinion piece written by Cegniz Aktar, Senior Scholar at the Istanbul Policy Center, a director at the UN, and one of the leading advocates of Turkey's integration into the EU. In this piece, Aktar argues that Turkish politician "fearing the birth of a Kurdish nation-state more than anything but eager on the other hand to assert their regional supremacy, are ending up by alienating all three Kurdish communities" in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. He is referring specifically to President Ankara making a speech comparing the PKK to ISIL, a few days after stating that the PKK should be fighting ISIL rather than Turkey. Even though the Turkish government has been an economic partner of the Iraqi Kurds, they have offered them no military support, and have also preventing Turkish Kurds from joining the fight against ISIL. The Turkish government's fear of a sovereign Kurdish state is leading to extremely poor diplomatic outcomes.
zackellogg

Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage | American Research Center in Egypt - 0 views

arce.org/pechbook

egypt Egyptian

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  • zackellogg on 09 Sep 14
     
    NEW BOOK CHRONICLES DECADE OF CONSERVATION WORK IN EGYPT ARCE proudly announces the publication of a new book, "Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage: Conservation Work by the American Research Center in Egypt 1995-2005," edited by Randi Danforth.
hkerby2

CDC | Facts About Chlorine - 0 views

emergency.cdc.gov/...facts.asp

cdc chlorine symptoms health

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  • hkerby2 on 02 Feb 15
     
    In this link the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, offers information on chlorine gas poisoning including: what chlorine is, where it is found and how it is used, exposure, how it works, signs and symptoms, and long term health effects. This is beneficial for understanding one of the main chemical weapons in Syria, chlorine gas.
katelynklug

The Unlikely Young Cosmopolitans of Cairo - 0 views

www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=760

Egpyt Cairo urban lower middle class cosmopolitan

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  • katelynklug on 21 Nov 14
     
    Author Heba Elsayed gives a preview of the study she conducted to observe the lower middle class in Cairo. Elsayed describes Cairo as a microcosm of globalization in urban centers. She describes the unique role of Cosmopolitanism in analyzing trends of globalization. She focuses on the lower middle class who, she says, plays the biggest role in incorporating multiple viewpoints in daily life rather than practicing exclusivity like the upper middle class. In addition, she describes cosmopolitanism in terms of internal heterogeneity, describing an 'onion model' of the world, in which the local and national form the core and inner layers and the international and global form the outer layers. She also mentions that nation-states can no longer be regarded as the primary reference point for global citizenry.
fcastro2

A daring plan to rebuild Syria - no matter who wins the war - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 0 views

www.bostonglobe.com/...story.html

syria plan war politics china russia the west

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  • The first year of Syria’s uprising, 2011, largely spared Aleppo, the country’s economic engine, largest city, and home of its most prized heritage sites. Fighting engulfed Aleppo in 2012 and has never let up since, making the city a symbol of the civil war’s grinding destruction
  • Rebels captured the eastern side of the city while the government held the wes
  • , residents say the city is virtually uninhabitable; most who remain have nowhere else to go
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  • In terms of sheer devastation, Syria today is worse off than Germany at the end of World War II
  • ven as the fighting continues, a movement is brewing among planners, activists and bureaucrats—some still in Aleppo, others in Damascus, Turkey, and Lebanon—to prepare, right now, for the reconstruction effort that will come whenever peace finally arrives.
  • In a glass tower belonging to the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, a project called the National Agenda for the Future of Syria has brought together teams of engineers, architects, water experts, conservationists, and development experts to grapple with seemingly impossible technical problems
  • It is good to do the planning now, because on day one we will be ready,”
  • The team planning the country’s future is a diverse one. Some are employed by the government of Syria, others by the rebels’ rival provisional government. Still others work for the UN, private construction companies, or nongovernmental organizations involved in conservation, like the World Monuments Fund
  • As the group’s members outline a path toward renewal, they’re considering everything from corruption and constitutional reform to power grids, antiquities, and health care systems.
  • Aleppo is split between a regime side with vestiges of basic services, and a mostly depopulated rebel-controlled zone, into which the Islamic State and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have made inroads over the last year
  • The population exodus has claimed most of the city’s craftsmen, medical personnel, academics, and industrialists
  • It took decades to clear the moonscapes of rubble and to rebuild, in famous targets like Dresden and Hiroshima but in countless other places as well, from Coventry to Nanking. Some places never recovered their vitality.
  • Of course, Syrian planners cannot help but pay attention to the model closest to home: Beirut, a city almost synonymous with civil war and flawed reconstructio
  • We don’t want to end up like Beirut,” one of the Syrian planners says, referring to the physical problems but also to a postwar process in which militia leaders turned to corrupt reconstruction ventures as a new source of funds and power
  • Syria’s national recovery will depend in large part on whether its industrial powerhouse Aleppo can bounce back
  • The city’s workshops, famed above all for their fine textiles, export millions of dollars’ worth of goods every week even now, and the economy has expanded to include modern industry as well.
  • Today, however, the city’s water and power supply are under the control of the Islamic State
  • Across Syria, more than one-third of the population is displaced.
  • A river of rubble marks the no-man’s land separating the two sides. The only way to cross is to leave the city, follow a wide arc, and reenter from the far side.
  • Parts of the old city won’t be inhabitable for years, he told me by Skype, because the ground has literally shifted as a result of bombing and shelling
  • The first and more obvious is creating realistic options to fix the country after the war—in some cases literal plans for building infrastructure systems and positioning construction equipment, in other cases guidelines for shaping governanc
  • They’re familiar with global “best practices,” but also with how things work in Syria, so they’re not going to propose pie-in-the-sky idea
  • If some version of the current regime remains in charge, it will probably direct massive contracts toward patrons in Russia, China, or Iran. The opposition, by contrast, would lean toward firms from the West, Turkey, and the Gulf.
  • At the current level of destruction, the project planners estimate the reconstruction will cost at least $100 billion
  • Recently a panel of architects and heritage experts from Sweden, Bosnia, Syria, and Lebanon convened in Beirut to discuss lessons for Syria’s reconstruction—one of the many distinct initiatives parallel to the Future of Syria project.
  • “You should never rebuild the way it was,” said Arna Mackic, an architect from Mostar. That Bosnian city was divided during the 1990s civil war into Muslim and Catholic sides, destroying the city center and the famous Stari Most bridge over the Neretva River. “The war changes us. You should show that in rebuilding.”
  • Instead, Mackik says, the sectarian communities keep to their own enclaves. Bereft of any common symbols, the city took a poll to figure out what kind of statue to erect in the city center. All the local figures were too polarizing. In the end they settled on a gold-colored statue of the martial arts star Bruce Lee
  • “It belongs to no one,” Mackic says. “What does Bruce Lee mean to me?
  • is that it could offer the city’s people a form of participatory democracy that has so far eluded the Syrian regime and sadly, the opposition as well.
  • “You are being democratic without the consequences of all the hullabaloo of formal democratization
  • A great deal of money has been invested in Syria’s destruction— by the regime, the local parties to the conflict, and many foreign powers. A great deal of money will be made in the aftermath, in a reconstruction project that stands to dwarf anything seen since after World War II.
  • fcastro2 on 23 Feb 15
     
    While it is still unclear as to who will win the Syrian conflict, there are people who are already looking towards the future and a better Syria. Plans are being made but, of course, these plans will entirely depend on who wins the war. 
ysenia

The Iran nuclear framework deal: A definitive, research-based guide from Harvard's Belfer Center - Journalist's Resource Journalist's Resource - 0 views

journalistsresource.org/...de-from-harvards-belfer-center

iran program nuclear guide framework facts

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  • However, in order to utilize the plutonium for a weapon, Iran would still have to build a reprocessing plant to be able to separate plutonium from spent fuel.
  • [I]t will reduce the risk of Iran getting a bomb better than any of the realistic alternatives. Iran has agreed to physical limits on its ability to produce weapons-grade materials that will assure a break-out timeline of roughly a year for the next 10 years, as well as additional restraints and verification measures to monitor compliance and detect cheating. If the U.S. rejects the deal and returns to sanctions, Iran is certain to return to what it was doing before the interim agreement: installing additional centrifuges, enriching uranium, increasing its stockpile of enriched material, developing more advanced centrifuges, and completing the Arak heavy water reactor. The agreement does not solve the problem, but it reduces the risk for now and buys substantial time to resolve the threat in the future.
    • ysenia
      ysenia on 08 Feb 16
       
      reduces risk of future issues
  • ysenia on 08 Feb 16
     
    Overview of the Nuclear Deal as well as the pros and cons. A more in-depth evaluation of facts about the program and the benefits of global intervention.
atownen

Ankara explosion: At least 18 killed and 45 injured after 'car bomb' hits centre of Turkish capital - updates | Middle East | News | The Independent - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...-turkish-capital-a6879556.html

Turkey Antara bombing PKK

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  • atownen on 17 Feb 16
     
    According the Independent, a middle east news center, reported today an explosion in Ankara with at least 18 killed and 45 injured; a car bomb hit Turkey's capital. Turkish officials assume that the Kurdish Worker's Party is responsible; possibly due to an unsuccessful peace negotiations between Turkey and the PKK.
ralph0

Museum of Lost Objects: Aleppo's minaret - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...magazine-35707634

Aleppo syria museum minaret

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  • ralph0 on 03 Mar 16
     
    The war in Syria is costing the lives of many, but theres plenty more that is being lost. Syria is a country that has been continuously inhabited for a very long time. Civilizations have left their marks on the architecture there and there are many great archaeological sites. At the center of Aleppo, lies the great mosque, known for its 1000 year old minaret. The article is about the minaret being lost due to the fighting in the city.
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