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Without question, Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt (1923-96), ranks among the most important Egyptian and Arab writers, critics, and activists of the 20th century. Published in 1960, her breakthrough novel al-Bāb al-maftūḥ [The Open Door] chronicles the emotional, psychological, and political growth of Layla, daughter of a conservative, Egyptian middle-class family. The backdrop of her story is the decade of tumu

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur musiker som har drabbats av tinnitus eller ljudöverkänslighet hanterar sitt yrke. Underlaget för studien består av fem stycken intervjuer med aktiva musiker inom klassisk musik, jazz och rock/blues som drabbats av tinnitus och/eller ljudöverkänslighet. Studiens resultat visar på följande åtgärder och är kategoriserade efter dessa: sjukskrivning/längre uTitle: A life in crash and bang - research about how musicians with tinnitus cope with their profession The purpose of this study is to investigate how musicians who have been affected by tinnitus or sound sensitivity deal with their profession. The material of this study consists of five interviews with professional musicians active within the classical music sphere as well as within jazz and roc

The objective of this study is to explore the rationale behind livelihood diversification behavior of rural Guatemalan households involved in the weaving sector. Livelihood diversification behavior stems from the necessity for rural households to manage risk, accumulate assets, cope with sudden environmental crises or pursue diversification as a natural strategy stemming from a historically social

This thesis deals with animal bones from the medieval town of Viljandi. My aim is to study the consumption of different species and possible spatial, temporal and social differences thereof. Bone assemblages from Viljandi’s suburb, town and castle area are analyzed with osteological, quantificative and statistical methods. Most of the consumed species in the town have been cattle, sheep, goat an

“The cult of the flavian emperors in Ephesos during the reign of Domitian” is an attempt to investigate the influence of an imperial provincial cult on the life of a city in the eastern parts of the Roman empire. Through the study of diffrent types of sourcematerials (archaeological, ephigrafical, numismatic and literary) the aim is to trace the influence that the new cult had on different levels

The relationship between vast resources of oil and development has repeatedly provento be a problematic one, and the reality shows that development states who are (un)blessed with the resource always have struggle with economic growth, civil wars, human rights torts and social development. TNC:s with oil interests claims that oil and development do match and that their presence in development stat

The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the situation of the reception of unaccompanied children in Sweden and whether they get their rights satisfied during the asylum process. To see the phenomenon through different aspects the paper consists of legal, political and psychological perspective. In the search of an answer to my questions a description about how Swedish authorities working with u

This essay studies the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) from the perspective of postcolonial theory, feminism and intersectionality. The theoretical framework constitutes the basis of this analysis. The aim of the analysis is to discuss the goals of equality and non-discrimination in CEDAW. This essay brings up the idea of women as a homogenous

The purpose of this essay is to examine if there is a slow genocide taking place in West Papua. To decide this, the situation of the people of West Papua will be applied on the genocide convention. Other alternative definitions will also be presented to recognize the complexity of the term genocide. The essay will focus on the violence and use of authority by the Indonesian government, the milita

Huvudsyftet med min uppsats är att se hur stor sannolikheten är för att ett nytt folkmord i Rwanda skulle kunna inträffa. Uppsatsen kommer också att fokusera på vad den rwandiska regeringen idag tar till för åtgärder för att stabilisera landet efter folkmordet 1994, samt hur man förebygger att eventuella folkmord inte inträffar och på så sätt kunna försäkra de rwandiska medborgarna fred, trygghet

I Rumänien lever tusentals barn på gatan i en miljö som är under värdig mänsklig standard. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa gatubarns situation i Rumänien, genom att beröra situationen utifrån flera olika perspektiv. Problemen kring Rumäniens gatubarn har sin grund i både landets historia och dess generella fattigdom. I och med barnkonventionen har andra länder ansvar genom det internationel

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om Sverigedemokraterna kränker de mänskliga rättigheterna, genom sin syn på medborgarskap/nationalitet, religionsfrihet samt invandring/flyktingfrågan. Primärkällorna kommer att vara Sverigedemokraternas officiella hemsida med fokus på deras princip- och invandringspolitiska program samt FN:s traktat om de mänskliga rättigheterna. Hur dessa kategorier utavThe purpose of this essay is to examine if Sverigedemokraterna violates the human rights, through their vision of citizenship / nationality, freedom of religion as well as the immigration / refugee issue. Primary sources will be the Sweden Democrats' official web site with focus on their principle and immigration policy programs and the UN treaty on human rights. How these human rights categor

The march forward for human rights and the spread of it throughout the world has been subjected to arguments by Asian governments that human rights and the values it promotes goes contrary to Asian values, and the Confucian society. This essay explores the roots of the Asian values argument and these Asian values and tries to see the reasoning and the structure of what lies behind the argument abo

Abstract The aim of this paper was to analyze slotted bone points from Scania, southern Sweden and to examine different aspects of them such as social areas of use, typology and chronology, what kind of animal that was hunted and how, what a manufacturing site might look like and what should be observed on the site and decoration. The slotted bone points occur in the early and the middle Mesolithi

How to define Private Military Companies is an issue, which due to PMC’s explosive growth during the last 30 years has become increasingly relevant. But how do you define the PMC personnel that take a direct part in combat situations? Through a singularly juridical aspect, based on interpretations of the Geneva Conventions I try to answer this problem. This essay first tries to define the PMC

In this essay the notion of targeted killings is reviewed through arguments about law and philosophy based on two different newspaper articles written by Daniel Byman and Richard A. Wiley. Targeted killings in the articles context of the Israel-Palestine conflict are categorized in too three argument concepts in my analysis, the three concepts are effectiveness, legality and morality. Targeted kil

In the process of developing the modern and democratic society that the people of Sweden can enjoy today the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1948 has been a cornerstone. Several of these rights have around the world been seen as fundamental to the democratic society and are today both a way of life, future and philosophy running through the country of Sw

In northern Uganda, a war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and governmnet troops has raged for more than twenty years. In this conflict, the civilian population has been made a target and subjected to mass scale torture, mutilation and murder. Almost two million people have been forced to flee their homes to reside in government protected camps for Internally Displaced Persons. In these ca