Reply to 'Comment on "Detuning effects in the one-photon mazer" '

We refute in this Reply the criticisms made by M. Abdel-Aty [Phys. Rev. A 70, 047801 (2004)]. We show that none of them are founded and we demonstrate very explicitly what is wrong in the arguments developed by this author.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure

Fear in Illinois: A Father\u27s Grief

Like a prose poem, the passage leaped off of the page of the Lutheran and Missionary as I scanned the newspaper\u27s columns. Sitting in the reading room of the Abdel Ross Wentz Library at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, my heart raced. It\u27s not often that you find new words penned by someone you\u27ve been studying for years. [excerpt

Islam and the Foundations of Political Power

The publication of this essay in Egypt in 1925 took the contemporaries of Ali Abdel Razek by storm. At a time when there was widespread turmoil over the abolition of the caliphate by Ataturk in Turkey, Ali Abdel Razek, a religious cleric trained at Al-Azhar University, argued in favour of secularism. The abolition of the caliphate had re-ignited the question of Islam and its relationship to political power. This essay unleashed the Arab world’s first great public debate published in the press with polemics supporting or refuting Ali Abdel Razek’s ideas.https://ecommons.aku.edu/uk_ismc_series_intranslation/1000/thumbnail.jp

A study in intertextuality and religious identity in selected novels of Egyptian literature

This study explores and analyzes the representation of religious identity in selected works of Egyptian fiction from the mid to late twentieth century including such authors as: Naguib Mahfouz, Edwar al-Kharrat, Bahaa Taher, Abdel-Hakim Qasim, Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid, etc

Dopamine Autoreceptor Regulation of a Hypothalamic Dopaminergic Network

Acknowledgments The authors thank Drs. Gilberto Fisone, Jessica Ausborn, Abdel El Manira, Gilad Silberberg, and members of the C.B. laboratory for advice, as well as Paul Williams for expert help with the graphical abstract. This study was supported by a Starting Investigator Grant from the ERC (ENDOSWITCH 261286), the Swedish Research Council (2010-3250), Novo Nordisk Fonden, and the Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The issue of methodology adopted by Mustafa Abdel-Raziq and its effects

This academic thesis deals with the issue of methodology as used by Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq (1885 - 1947). It is an issue that represents the essence of his academic philosophical thought. Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq is considered one of the leading religious reformists, and he was the faithful disciple of f Muḥammad ʿAbdū, the second founder of this trend with Jamāl al- Dīn al-Afghanī. Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq added a dimension of more breadth and accuracy by expanding on the contemporary range of general thought transforming it to an academic specialist thought. Abdel-Rāziq is the founder of the current academic discipline. This foundation is based primarily on his new theory about the philosophical creativity in Islamic Civilization He considered al manhaj al uṣūli or the methodology of uṣūl al fiqh a science that was always subject to classification within the religious legitimate sciences which makes it the focus of this philosophical creativity

The impact of US aid policy on democracy and political reform in the Arab World

Abdel Mahdi Alsoud

Comment on 'Quantum inversion of cold atoms in a microcavity: spatial dependence'

In a recent work, Abdel-Aty and Obada [2002 J. Phys. B 35 807-813] analyzed the quantum inversion of cold atoms in a microcavity, the motion of the atoms being described quantum mechanically. Two-level atoms were assumed to interact with a single mode of the cavity, and the off-resonance case was considered (namely the atomic transition frequency is detuned from the single mode cavity frequency). We demonstrate in this paper that this case is incorrectly treated by these authors and we question therefore their conclusions.Comment: 4 pages, no figure

ALEA III Composers' Workshop, April 24, 1993

This is the concert program of the ALEA III Composers' Workshop performance on Saturday, April 24, 1993 at 7:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were The Unquestioned Answer by Kostas Varotsis, Gloucester Epiphanies by Sidney Corbett, I. Madrigale from Sinfonia da Camera in memoriam Girolamo Fescobaldi by Alexander Popov, Taqaseem for Chamber Orchestra by Riad-Abdel,, Me No More by Panayiotis Adam, and Passages/ Five Poems of Jim Barnes by Ronald Caltabiano. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Shaaban Abdel Rahim and the changing stardom culture in Egypt

The subject of the study is Shaaban Abdel Rahim, an illiterate former makwagi (man who irons clothes) who gained pan-Arab fame in 2001 for the song ‘I hate Israel’ and, despite fierce criticism from the national media, has become one of the most recognisable stars of sha’bi music in Egypt. The study aims to answer the question of the main criterion of Abdel Rahim’s popularity. The initial hypothesis was that the political content of his songs was the most decisive factor in the matter. However, a more detailed study, based on fieldwork conducted in Egypt in 2012, reveals that his political commitment is not the key issue. Referring to the theory of social relevance in popular culture, the author claims that Abdel Rahim’s success is not derived from the meanings that people read into his songs, but rather from his low origins. The phenomenon should be considered within the context of a highly class-based society where Abdel Rahim has become a mouthpiece of the most neglected part of the Egyptian population deprived of representation in the mainstream media