Final Project (this one is the right one)

 

Samantha Devinck 900081637

 LALT section 03

 Spring 2010

                                                                                                   Research Project

 Research question

 How are Coptic Christians discriminated in Egypt?

 A website

 “EGYPT International religious freedom report”. U.S. Department Of State. 2008. Web. 4 December 2009.

 A current news article on topic

 Fargues, Philippe. “Demographic Islamization: Non-Muslims in Muslim Countries.” SAIS Review 21.2 (2001): 103-116. Project MUSE. 26 Oct. 2009 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

 A popular non news article

 Cofsky, Warren “Copts bear the brunt of Islamic extremism.” Christianity Today 37.3 (1993): 46. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 4 Dec. 2009.

 Two scholarly articles

 Boles, Imad “Egypt–Persecution.” Middle East Quarterly 8.1 (2001): 23. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Oct. 2009.

 Henderson, Randall “The Egyptian Coptic Christians: the conflict between identity and equality.” Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations 16.2 (2005): 155-166. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 4 Dec. 2009.

 A book (available at AUC Library)

 Makary, Peter. Conflict & cooperation: Christian- Muslim relations in contemporary Egypt. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Print.

A film (available at AUC Library)

 The Copts of Egypt. Dir. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. London: Minority Right Groups, 1996. DVD. 

Blog 9

My article found on google news is:

“Muslim-Christian Clashes Erupt After Murder of Villager”. Fox News. Associated press, 24 october 2009. Web. 15 november 2009.

The article published the day of my birthday is:

“AIDS Vaccine Shows Promise. ” New York Times (1857-Current file)  8  Jun 1990,ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 – 2006), ProQuest. Web.  15 Nov. 2009.

 

Unit 7

My research topic is:  The problem of the discrimination of Coptic Christians in Egypt

-The database i chose to research information about my topic is Project Muse.

-The database i chose was Project Muse because it provides many studies and information on  all problems in the middle east. It covers wide topics as gender equality, politics and religion which is my focus.  It covers mainly all religions but also focuses on coptic christians situation and the problems they might encounter in the muslim world. 

- This is the journal that contains the information I would want to use in my research:

Fargues, Philippe. “Demographic Islamization: Non-Muslims in Muslim Countries.” SAIS Review 21.2 (2001): 103-116. Project MUSE. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 26 Oct. 2009 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

Unit 6

1) My research question is : How are coptic christians discriminated in Egypt?

2) The disciplines that relate to my research topic are: History, Religion, Psychology , Sociology, cultural studies and ethcnic studies, religious studies.

3) The AUC majors and minors that relate to my topic are: 

 majors: Middle East studies, Sociology, Psychology

minors: Coptic studies, Islamic studies

4) The two databases that could help me are:

“Project muse”: covers many topic in the the religious studies field so it might cover the topic of the discrimination of coptic christians.

“Index Islamicus”: it talks about the muslim world, the middle East and Islam so normally i could find something related to the situation of coptic christians  in the Middle East and muslim world.

blog 5

My chosen research topic is about : The Problem of the Persucation of Coptic Christians in Egypt.

1) A book on the topic from the AUC library:

Conflict & cooperation: Christian- Muslim relations in contemporary Egypt, by Peter E. Makary. Published in 2007 by Syracuse University Press.DT71 .M35 2007

2) A book published between 2002 and 2004:

Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, modernity, by Talal Asad. Published in 2003 by Stanford University Press. BL2747.8 A75 2003

3) A film held by AUC:

Four women of Egypt by The National Film Board Of Canada. HQ1793 .F68 1997

Blog 4

1) The topic I chose to talk about is:  The problem of the Persucation of Coptic Christians in Egypt

2) When I narrowed down my research to all articles published in 2004 I just found one article. However, i think it would be a very helpful article to my research topic.

Spencer, R. (2004). Christians Persecuted in Egypt. Human Events, 60(43), 17. http://search.ebscohost.com

3) When I limited my search to only scholarly journals I found four articles. Here is the reference of the one I believe was the most interesting if related to my topic.

Boles, Imad “Egypt–Persecution.” Middle East Quarterly 8.1 (2001): 23. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Oct. 2009.

Blog 3

My research question for this asignment is: How has facebook changed the way relationships are formed in college?

My AND search statement:

• facebook AND relationships AND college
• facebook AND college AND student

My two citations are:

Sharon, Jayson “Are students today more narcissistic?.” USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 11 Oct. 2009.

Pempek, Tiffany A., Yevdokiya A. Yermolayeva, and Sandra L. Calvert “College students’ social networking experiences on Facebook.” Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 30.3 (2009): 227-238. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 11 Oct. 2009.

Blog 2: Street Children in Egypt

I searched Academic Search Complete for the problem of Street Children In Egypt and found these two articles.

Article 1

• Author: Frykberg, Mel
• Title of article: “Cairo’s invisibles”
• Title of journal: Middle East
• Date of publication: October 2007
• Volume and issue numbers: Issue 382  and no volume number
• Page numbers of the article: 58-59
• http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=27102808&site=ehost-live
• Subject headings: STREET Children; ABUSED children; HUMAN Rights Watch (Organization)

Article 2

• Author: Amma, Nawal H.
• Title of article: “The Relationship Between Street Children and the Justice Sytem in Egypt”
• Title of journal: Internationnal Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
• Date of publication: October 2009
• Volume and issue numbers: Vol.53, issue 5
• Page numbers of the article: 556-573
• http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=44126450&site=ehost-live
• Subject headings: STREET Children; JUSTICE; SOCIAL problems; EDUCATIONAL sociology; PROBLEM children

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Hi im Samantha Devinck!  My major is Integrated marketing communictaion (IMC), im a sophomore and i love AUC LALT class!!!

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- Yahoo (to be updated with the latest news)

- Red head’s blog!

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