Most Recent Papers, Reports and Publications
Abdel-Rahman El-Zayadi, Hanaa M. Badran, Sherine Shawky, Sally Emara, Ashraf El-Bareedy, Mohammed Sobhi. (in press) “Effect of Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma on Tumor Staging and Treatment Decisions in Egyptian Patients”. Hepatology International.

Ayeb, Habib (in press), “Hydropolitics of the Arab World: the real and false threats”. Water in the Arab Countries; Global Perceptions and Local realities. Casa Arabe, Madrid.

Ayeb, Habib (in press), “Water in Egypt: Between wealth and poverty”. In Water in the Arab Countries; Global Perceptions and Local realities. Casa Arabe, Madrid.

Ayeb, Habib and Reem Saad (eds). (in press) Agrarian Transformations in the Arab World: Persistent and Emerging Challenges. Cairo-Papers in Social Science. (Monograph Series)

Ayeb, Habib and Reem Saad (in press) “What’s Urban about Rural Egypt?” In Habib Ayeb and Reem Saad (eds). Agrarian Transformations in the Arab World: Persistent and Emerging Challenges. Cairo-Papers in Social Science. (Monograph Series).

Dale Huntington, Hassan H.M. Zaky, Sherine Shawky, Faten Abdel Fattah, and Eman El-Hadary. ( in press) Impact of a provider incentive payment scheme on reproductive and child health services in Egypt. Journal of Health, Population And Nutrition. This paper also presented to the CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 17-18 December 2009.

Al-Sharmani, Mulki (forthcoming in July 2010) “Transnational Family Networks in Somali Diaspora in Egypt: Women’s Roles and Differentiated Experiences.“ In: Gender, Place, and Culture.

Shawky, Sherine (in press) “Could the Employment-based Targeting Approach Serve Egypt in Moving towards a Social Health Insurance Model”. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal.

Shawky, Sherine (in press) “Primary Health Care in The Eastern Mediterranean: From Alma Ata to Doha”. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal.

Publications 2010

Ayeb, Habib (2010) "Crise de la Société Rurale en Egypte... la fin de fellah". Karthala, Paris.

Halasa, Yara, Heba Nassar and Hassan Zaky (2010) “Benefit Incidence Analysis of Government Spending on Ministry of Health Outpatient Services in Jordan”, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Vol.16, No. 5. PP: 259-265.

Khadr, Zeinab (2010) “Population theories” in Introduction to Demography and its Applications, Cairo, Population council, West Asia & North Africa Regional Office, Dar El Nakheel. Pp: 135-139 (in Arabic)

Khadr, Zeinab, Mohamed Nour el Dein and Ramadan Hamed (2010) “Using GIS in constructing area-based physical deprivation index in Cairo Governorate, Egypt”, Habitat International 34, 2, Elsevier Ltd. Pp: 264-272.

Langsten, Ray, Tahra Hassan (2010) “Education Transitions in Egypt: The Effects of Gender and Wealth” in International Conference Child Poverty And Disparities: Public Policies for Social Justice procedure, Egyptian National Child Rights Observatory, NCCM, Ministry of State for Family and Population, Cairo. pp: 4-29.

El-Saadani, Somaya (2010) “Mortality” in Introduction to Demography and its Applications, Cairo, Population council, West Asia & North Africa Regional Office, Dar El Nakheel. Pp: 59-78 (in Arabic)

Al-Sharmani, Mulki. “Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment, and Social Change: The Case of Egypt” In: IDS Bulletin, 41, No. 2, 2010: 10-17

Al-Sharmani, Mulki. “Navigating Refugee Life.” In: UN Chronicle, Vol. 67, 1, 2010: 48-51

Al-Sharmani, Mulki (co-authored with Azer, Adel, Mehanna, Sohair, and Ali, Essam). A Rights-based Approach to Child Protection Policies in Egypt: Cairo Papers in Social Science, Vol 30, No. 1 Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010

Zaky, Hassan. H.M. (2010) “Fertility and Reproduction” in Introduction to Demography and its Applications”, Cairo, The Population council, Egypt regional office for Middle East and North Africa, Dar El Nakheel. Pp:87-97 (in Arabic)

Zaky, Hassan. H.M. (2010) “Introduction to Demography and its Applications”, Cairo, Population council, West Asia & North Africa Regional Office, Dar El Nakheel (in Arabic)

Publications 2009
Abdel-Rahman El-Zayadi, Hanaa Mostafa Badran, Ahmed Saied, Sherine Shawky, Mohy El-Deen Attia, Khaled Zalata (2009). “Evaluation of Liver Biopsy in Egyptian HBeAg-Negative Chronic Hepatitis B Patients at Initial Presentation: Implications for Therapy”. Am J Gastroenterol 2009; 104: pp:906 – 911; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2009.30; published online 17 March 2009.

Dale Huntington, Hassan H.M. Zaky, Sherine Shawky, Faten Abdel Fattah, and Eman El-Hadary. ( in press) Impact of a provider incentive payment scheme on reproductive and child health services in Egypt. Journal of Health, Population And Nutrition. This paper also presented to the CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 17-18 December 2009.
 

Ayeb, Habib and Reem Saad. (2009) “Gender, Poverty and Biodiversity Conservation in Rural Egypt and Tunisia”. Proceedings of the workshop: Competition over resources, rural poverty and agrarian policies in MENA - 10th Mediterranean Research Meeting. 25-28 March 2009, Florence - Italy.

Ayeb, Habib (2009) “Geopolítica del agua en Oriente Medio, de Sudán al Kurdistán”, in Consecuencias económicas y ecológicas de los conflictos en el mundo árabe. Cycle of conferences of Casa-Arabe -IEAM. Madrid. Spain.

Ayeb, Habib (2009) “The Hydropolitics of the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean Yearbook 2008. Barcelone. IEMED.

Khadr, Zeinab, Mohamed Nour el Dein and Ramadan Hamed (2009) “Monitoring socioeconomic inequity in maternal health indicators in Egypt": 1995-2005, International Journal for Equity in Health, BioMed Central, U.K. pp: 1-12.

Hamed, Ramadan (2009) “Advocacy, Education and Behavioral Change Communication” in Population Status In Egypt": International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP)@15 report. (Hassan Zaky ed), The Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support, Evidence-Based Population Policy and UNFPA, Cairo, pp: 84-93

Rashad, Hoda (2009) “Research practices, A question of values” in Henk Molenaar, Louk Box and Rutger Engelhard (eds) Knowledge on the Move: Emerging Agendas for Development-oriented Research. Leiden: International Development Publications. pp:49-57.

Reem Saad. Al-harb ala Ghaza fil-fada’yaat al-Arabiya (The war on Gaza in Arab satellite TV) Alshorouk Newspaper. 2009

Reem Saad. Halawet Zaman (Sweet Past). Alshorouk Newspaper. 9 March 2009

Reem Saad. Nafhamak alaan Ya Amitav (We now understand you, Amitav). Alshorouk Newspaper. April 13, 2009.

Reem Saad. Almuqata’a wasila wa laysat ghaya (Boycott is a means not an end). Alshorouk Newspaper . June 29, 2009.

Reem Saad. Amradna wa Hululna Al-gathreya (Our ills, and our radical solutions). Alshorouk Newspaper. August 6, 2009.

Reem Saad. Alamat laysat kal-alamat (Signs unlike signs). Alshorouk Newspaper. October 17, 2009.

Reem Saad. Althaqafa walsiyasa wal-mas’uliyya (culture, politics and responsibility). Alshorouk Newspaper. November 19, 2009.

Reem Saad. Alwagh alqabih lel-irada al-sha’biyya (The ugly face of popular will). Alshorouk Newspaper. December 5, 2009.
 

Al-Sharmani, Mulki. ‘Egyptian Family Courts: Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?’ In: Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 7, 2009: 89-119

Al-Sharmani, Mulki. “African Refugees: Ambivalent Status and Diasporic Struggles in Cairo” (co-written with Katarzyna Grabska), in: Singerman, Diane (ed)Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity.The American University in Cairo Press, 2009. pp. 455-488.

Al Sharmani, Mulki and Katarzyna Grabska (2009) ‘Egyptian Family Courts: Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?’ In: Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Volume 7, pp: 89-119.
 

Shawky, Sherine (2009) “HIV Epidemic Profile” in Population Status In Egypt: International Conference on Population and Development(ICDP)@15 report. (Hassan Zaky ed), The Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support, Evidence-Based Population Policy and UNFPA, pp: 64-82 Cairo.

Shawky, Sherine (2009) An HIV Center in the Middle East and North Africa: Striving to organize a regional HIV resource center to confront a growing epidemic. HIV CENTER for Clinical and Biological Studies. At the NewYork State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. HIV Center E-Newsletter: Volume 3, No. 1.  http://www.hivcenternyc.org/newsletter/voiceofthecommunity.html

Shawky, Sherine (2009). Guest Editor for J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2009; vol. 51 suppl 3.

Shawky, Sherine, Cherif Soliman, Kassem Kassak, Doaa Oraby, Danielle Khouri, and Inoussa Kabore. (2009) “HIV Surveillance and Epidemic Profile in the Middle East and North Africa”. HIV Surveillance and Epidemic Profile in the Middle East and North Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr; vol 51 suppl 3: S83-S95.

Shawky, Sherine, Cherif Soliman, Sharif Sawires. (2009) “Gender and HIV in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons Learned for Low Prevalence Scenarios”. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr; vol. 51 suppl 3: S73-S74.

Sholkamy, Hania )2009(“Gender and Population” in Population Status In Egypt: International Conference on Population and Development(ICDP)@15 report. (Hassan Zaky ed), The Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support, Evidence-Based Population Policy and UNFPA, pp: 22-36, Cairo.

Simister, J. and H.H.M. Zaky (2009). Wife’s earnings, child nutrition, and Gender-Based Violence in Egypt. Middle East Development Journal. Vol. 01, issue 02, pp: 209-226.

Zaky, Hassan. H.M. )2009( “Population and Development: A Governorate Perspective” in Population Status In Egypt: International Conference on Population and Development(ICDP)@15 report. (Hassan Zaky ed), The Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support, Evidence-Based Population Policy and UNFPA, pp: 4-13, Cairo.

Zaky, Hassan. H.M. (2009) The Timing of the Demographic Dividend in Egypt. Proceedings of the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. Pp:175-188. Hawaii, United States of America.

Publications 2006/7
Rashad, Hoda and Yount, Kathryn, eds. Family Ties and Ideational Changes in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia. 2007
 

Rashad, Hoda and El Saadani, Somaya, 2006.  “Gender Aspects of Work Environment in Manufacturing”

El-Saadani, Somaya 2006 “Divorce in the Arab Region: Current Levels, Trends, and Features”, presented at the European Population Conference 2006, Liverpool, UK, 21-24 June 2006.

El-Saadani, Somaya 2006 “Marriage Instability in some Arab States”, presented at The Regional Conference on Family Health and Population, organized by the League of Arab States, Cairo, 4-6 May, 2006.

El Sharmani, Mulki 2006 “Living Transnationally: Diasporic Somali Women in Cairo”, In: Journal of International Migration, 44, 1, 2006: 1-23
 

Hamed, Ramadan and Yehia, Amany, 2006 “A Mathematical Programming Approach to Average Bioequivalence Problem”

Hamed, Ramadan 2006, “Methodology and Background Characteristics” in Women and Work in Manufacturing

Publications 2005
Abdel Shakur, Mohamed, Sohair Mehanna and Nicholas S. Hopkins (2005)  War and Forced Migration in Egypt: The Experience of Evacuation from the Suez Canal Cities (1967-1976) Arab Studies Quarterly, a publication of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Vol. 27, No. 3.

National Council for Women (2005) A Future Perspective Towards Illiteracy Eradication in Egypt, Hoda Rashad and Ramadan Hamed, (Contributing Authors).

Rashad, Hoda and Eltigani E. Eltigani (2005) “Explaining Fertility Decline in Egypt”. In Jones G. and M. Karim (eds), Islam, the State and Population, C. Hurst and Co. (Publishers), London. Pp.: 174-198.

Rashad, Hoda, Magued Osman and Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi (2005) “Marriage in the Arab World” Population Reference Bureau, Washington
 

El Saadani, Somaya (as a co-author) 2005 "Why Illiterates Do Not Want to Attend Literacy Classes: Case of Rural Egypt” Paper presented at the International Statistical Institute Conference, Sydney, Australia.
 

Publications 2004
____________ (2004) “Social Security and Social Welfare” in  Progress of Arab Women, UNIFEM, United Nations Development Fund for Women, Arab States Regional Office. Pp: 121-180.

___________(2004) “Social Risk Management in Egypt, in: Rising to the Challenge: Regional Crisis and Economic Management in Egypt”  H. Nassar and H. El Said (eds), Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University and USAID. (Co-author)

__________ . (2004) "Reproductive Health Interventions in Egypt: An Assessment Study, Phase 1”.  Technical Report, Egyptian Society for Population Studies and Reproductive Health and Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo.

Abdel Aal, M. H. (2004) "Tenants, Owners, and Sugar Cane: Law 96/1992 in Qena and Aswan" In Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). Identity and Change in Upper Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. Pp: 251-265.

Abdel Aal, Mohamed and Bush, Ray (2004) Veiling Power in the Egyptian Countryside: Struggles for Land and Rights. American University in Cairo and Leeds University. A paper presented in the Fifth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting. 24-28 March 2004.

Center for Information and Computer systems, Faculty of Economic and Political Science, Cairo University, National Population Council, Research Management Unit,  Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, USAID (2004) “Patterns of Marriage and Family formation among Youth in Egypt”.

Hopkins, Nicholas and Reem Saad (eds) (2004) Upper Egypt: Identity and Change. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.

Khalil, K., M. Cherine, A. Elnoury, H. Sholkamy, M. Breebaart, N. Hassanein  (2004) “Labour Augmentation in and Egyptian teaching hospital” International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetric. Pp: 74-80.

Labeeb, Shukreya, Samiha El Katsha, Susan Watts and Awatif Younis (2004) “Roles of Informal Sector Health Provider Practices and the Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: A Pilot study in two Egyptian Villages" The Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, WHO.

Langsten, Ray and Tahra Hassan  (2004) ”Education for all” in Egypt: The experience of the 1990s, and prospects for the future.  proceedings of the 11th AUC Research Conference “Quality Education for Egypt: Achievements and Challenges”, held on March 28-29 2004, American University in Cairo.

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (2004) Assessment of Using IT in Literacy, Hamed, Ramadan (Contributing Author).

Nassar, Heba (2004) “Rising to the Challenge: Regional Crisis and Economic Management in Egypt” Proceedings of the Conference on “Rising to the Challenge: Regional Crisis and Economic Management in Egypt”, Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University and USAID. (Co-editor)

Rashad, Hoda (2004) “Gender Equality: Achievements and Challenges” in Progress of Arab Women, UNIFEM, United Nations Development Fund for Women, Arab States Regional Office. Pp: 23-120.

Saad, Reem (2004) “Social reproduction and social transformation: trade and exchange in the Rural South” In Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). Identity and Change in Upper Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. Pp: 233-249

Saad, Reem and Nicholas Hopkins (2004) “The Region of Upper Egypt: Identity and Change”.  In Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). Identity and Change in Upper Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. Pp: 1-23.

Sholkamy, Hania, Farah Ghannam (ed) (2004) “Health and Identity in Egypt” Cairo: AUC Press.

Sholkamy, Hania (2004) “Constructing the Feminine ….. and the Masculine: Child Rearing and Identity” In Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). Identity and Change in Upper Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. Pp: 191-211.

Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, and A, Dharmalingam (eds) (2004) Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography, IUSSP  Oxford University Press.

Talaat, Maha, Suzan Watts, Shahinaz Mekheimar, Heba Farouk Ali, and Howaida Hamed. (2004) “The Social Context of Reproductive Health in an Egyptian Hamlet: a Pilot Study to Identify Female Genital Schistosomiasis” Social Science and Medicine. No. 58: pp: 236-241.

World Education (2004) Integrated Health and Literacy,  Hamed, Ramadan, (Contributing Author).

Zaky, Hassan  (2004)  "Fertility Transition and Female Rational Choices in Egypt” Journal of Health & Population in developing Countries. University of North Carolina.

Zaky, H. H. M and B. El-Deeb. (2004)  “Impact of Poverty in Egypt on Women Health and Acceptance of Family Planning”.  Research Monograph series no 33, Cairo Demographic Center, Cairo, Egypt. Volume 33.

Other Publications 2001/2002

with Hoda Rashad (Director of SRC) as the representative of coordination .institution and contributing author.  The Situation of Egyptian Children & Women. A rights-based analysis. UNICEF and the National Council of Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM, August 2002.

“Empowerment and Activating NGOs in the Rural Communities” Abdel Aal, M. H. (2002)  in Mohamed Allium (ed.) “Mondialisation et Societes Rurales en Mediterranee” IRMC, Karthala, Tunis. (in French).

“The Status of Land Holding Before and After the Implementation of Law 1992/96" Abdel Aal, Mohamed H. (2001)  A case study on “land holding registry in tow villages of Upper Egypt”. In (eds.) Heba Nassar and Heba El Laithy

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