Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village
Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village

Author: Hiroshi Kato

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9004317392

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Rashda:The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village is an interdisciplinary study from a multi-perspective, using various kinds of data and information. It offers a comprehensive description of Rashda, a village in Dakhla Oasis in Egypt from its beginning to the present. Key concepts are the uncertainty of the water supply, the dependence on the political regime and the rational behaviour of individuals. The villagers of Rashda have dealt with the difficult natural circumstances by creating the local customs of irrigation and cultivation. The development of village recently depends ever more on the government, as long as large amounts of finance and superior technology are necessary to dig deeper wells to secure water for cultivation.

Rashda
Rashda

Author: Hiroshi Kato

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9789004316171

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Rashda:The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Villageoffers an detailed analysis and description on the history and life under the uncertainty of water supply of an Egyptian oasis village based on various kinds of data and information.

Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis
Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis

Author: Erina Iwasaki

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 3030640051

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This book is a multidisciplinary manuscript bringing together contributions on water issues from natural and social scientists focused on water management and structures in a challenging environmental situation such as Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's western desert. The authors of this book are relevant scientists in hydrology, geology, remote sensing, agriculture, history, and sociology. It is devoted to various critical environmental topics such as geological and hydraulic structure, climate influence, underground water management, irrigation management, and human settlement. The book provides a range of new perspectives on solving different environmental problems in arid zones toward the region's sustainable development, based on the case studies and fieldwork in the Dakhla Oasis (Western Desert, Egypt).

Oasis ottomanes
Oasis ottomanes

Author: Nicolas Michel

Publisher: IFAO

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 2724710274

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This book explores the position of the Dakhla and Kharga oases within Ottoman Egypt as well as the whole empire. It intends to contribute to the reflection on the characteristics and limits of Ottomanity as seen by the inhabitants of a region which, from Cairo, seemed remote and isolated. It is based on several sets of private archives, largely unpublished, supplemented by travelogues and by modern literature. Despite their remoteness from the Nile Valley and a unique environment, the Oases were integrated in the same administrative and judicial frame as the rest of Egypt. Taxation was specific as were the primarily agricultural resources. Because of the threat of Beduin raids, the Oases housed a large garrison. The book studies the impact of this military presence upon the Oasian society from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the gradual erasure of Ottoman peculiarities, then of their memory during the nineteenth century.

Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco
Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco

Author: Fatima Sadiqi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 9004128530

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This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.

The Western Desert of Egypt
The Western Desert of Egypt

Author: Cassandra Vivian

Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 9789774160905

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Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and oasis travel in Egypt west of the Nile, The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook has now been fully revised and updated for the latest generation of twenty-first century desert adventurers. Fully illustrated with some 50 maps and plans and over 270 drawings, the guide covers both the natural history and the human history of the desert and the oases. It then explores chapter by chapter the oases of Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Bahariya, Fayoum, and Siwa, and the desert areas of al-Diffa (the northern, semiarid edge of the desert), the Darb al-Arbain caravan route in the south, and Uwaynat (including Gilf Kebir) in the southwest. Descriptions of routes, sites, people, and places are complemented by practical information on places to stay, eat, and fill your gas tank. Global positioning system (GPS) waypoints are provided as an aid to navigation on many routes--though for the sake of conservation and the protection of unguarded antiquities they are not given for remote sites. Almost encyclopedic in its scope, this is the one guide that belongs on the bookshelf, dashboard, or rucksack of every Western Desert traveler.

Living as Form
Living as Form

Author: Nato Thompson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0262017342

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'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.

The Geology of Egypt
The Geology of Egypt

Author: Zakaria Hamimi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 3030152650

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This richly illustrated book offers a concise overview of the geology of Egypt in the context of the geology of the Arab Region and Northeast Africa. An introductory chapter on history of geological research in Egypt sheds much light on the stages before and after the establishment of Egyptian Geological Survey (the second oldest geological survey worldwide), Hume's book and Said's 1962, 1990 books. The book starts with the Precambrian geology of Egypt, in terms of lithostratigraphy and classifications, structural and tectonic framework, crustal evolution and metamorphic belts. A dedicated chapter discusses the Paleozoic-Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonics and structural evolution of Egypt. A chapter highlights the Red Sea tectonics and the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba Rifts. Subsequent chapters address the Phanerozoic geology from Paleozoic to Quaternary. The Egyptian Impact Crater(s) and Meteorites are dealt with in a separate chapter. The Earth resources in Egypt, including metallic and non-metallic ore deposits, hydrocarbon and water resources, are given much more attention throughout four chapters. The last chapter addresses the seismicity, seismotectonics and neotectonics of Egypt.

the art and architecture of islamic cairo
the art and architecture of islamic cairo

Author: richard yeomans

Publisher: Garnet & Ithaca Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Cairo is full of masterpieces of medieval art and architecture reflecting the status of Egypt as the centre of several significant Muslim empires. This book redresses the cultural balance and examines the art and architectural treasures of Cairo from the Arab to the Ottoman conquests (642-1517). It is fully illustrated with over 200 photographs.