Authoritarian placeless projects after 2017 introduced a significant shift in Cairo’s linguistic landscape; giant streets and electronic billboards, banners, signs co-shaped the city’s global image. Promoting English bilingualism (English-Arabic) created study question. Why do advertisements address Arabic-speaking population English? This aims at investigating Cairene policy its cultural meani...

OBJECTIVE To identify current risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in Greater Cairo. DESIGN AND SETTING A 1:1 matched case-control study was conducted comparing incident acute symptomatic hepatitis C patients in two "fever" hospitals of Greater Cairo with two control groups: household members of the cases and acute hepatitis A patients diagnosed at the same hospitals. Control...

BACKGROUND Although animal research ethics committees (AREC) are well established in Western countries, this field is weakly developed and its concept is poorly understood in the Middle East and North Africa region. OBJECTIVE Our main objective was to introduce the concept and requirements of ethical approaches in dealing with experimental animal in research and teaching in Egypt. METHODS D...

INTRODUCTION Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a persistent problem in community and health care settings. Fluoroquinolones are among the drugs of choice used to treat MRSA infections. This study aims to identify different mechanisms of fluoroquinolne resistance in local MRSA random sampling isolates in Cairo, Egypt. METHODOLOGY A total of 94 clinical isolates of S. aureus...

BACKGROUND Mucinous carcinoma (MC) is found in 10%-15% of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. It differs from the common adenocarcinoma (AC) in histopathological appearance and clinical behavior. METHODS Genome-wide DNA copy number and survival data from MC and AC primary CRC samples from patients from two phase III trials (CAIRO and CAIRO2) was compared. Chromosomal copy number data from The C...

Abstract Bab el Nasr gate, which was built between 1087 and 1092, is one of the three remaining gates in Cairo Fatimid walls. Inside walls, there are a great variety stonework pieces that reveal stereotomic knowledge their executors. Specially, inner space gate covered by groin vault stands out for accuracy its construction, despite early execution date. In order to analyse geometry design phot...

The power and role played by social media in developing social and political movements for political changes in North Africa and the Middle East have transformed how social media viewed and used. To date, few IS studies have investigated the role of Information Systems in the context of politics. The goal of this paper is to understand the role of social media including micro-blogs and social n...

0378-777X/00/$12.00 © 2000 IOS Press and disease through trade. In particular, through the promotion of “the conservation of Africa’s rich heritage in biological diversity, which is a global asset and promote its sustainable use for the benefit of local people.” The Summit ended with H.E. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria and Chairman of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), and H....

We predict by first principles a phase transition in alumina at approximately 3.7 Mbar and room temperature from the CaIrO(3)-type polymorph to another with the U(2)S(3)-type structure. Because alumina is used as window material in shock-wave experiments, this transformation should be important for the analysis of shock data in this pressure range. Comparison of our results on all high-pressure...

If Africa continues on the Cairo path at the current pace, can it achieve the Millennium Development Goals and if so, what progress has been made to address population aspects that are relevant for the achievement of these goals since Cairo? The answer to the first part of the question is almost certainly no unless a majority of African countries swiftly and significantly scale up action (Inter...