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Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University
"Egypt at the Crossroads: Literary and Linguistic Studies"
Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2008
Because of its geographical, historical, and cultural placement, Egypt has been—since time immemorial—both literally and metaphorically at the crossroads. Enjoying the strategic location that it does—at a meeting point between Africa and Asia, facilitating contact between the two continents and Europe, and at a juncture between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea—Egypt is a rich amalgam of diverse cultural heritages: Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Persian, Coptic, Islamic. Influenced by all these and, in modern times, the French and British, the inhabitants are in the happy position of being hybrid—African, Arab, Mediterranean—but indubitably and inimitably Egyptian. It is, perhaps, this unique situation that inspired the Egyptian geographer Gamal Hamdan (1928-1993) to write of Egypt as having a "natural gift" which may explain "the secret of Egypt's survival and vitality through the ages and in spite of the ages."
Contributors to the Symposium are invited to explore the various aspects and paradoxes of Egypt through literature and language, making use of, though by no means restricted to, the following suggested topics:
Egypt in World Literature (African/Arab/Mediterranean)
Teaching Egyptian/Arabic Literature in Non-Egyptian Cultures
Teaching English Literature in Non-English-Speaking Cultures
The Presentness of the Past in Literature and Language
Egyptian Literature in Translation
Travel Literature
Revisiting the Canon in Literary and Linguistic Studies
New Forms in Literary and Linguistic Studies
Orientalism: Past and Present
The Quest for Identity
Cross-Linguistic/Cross-Cultural Studies of Different Discourse Types
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Replies will be posted by April 30, 2008.
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The Ninth International Symposium on Comparative Literature
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• To assess the relative rate of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) tract bleeding associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), we performed a retrospective cohort study using 1980 billing data from all Medicaid patients in the states of Michigan and Minnesota. The rate of UGI tract bleeding in the 30 days following each drug exposure was examined in the 88 044 patients dispensed only one of seven NSAIDs. The rate of UGI tract bleeding differed significantly among users of these drugs. Stratification and logistic regression were used to adjust for multiple potential confounding factors, without substantive changes in the results. An alcohol-drug interaction was found. Sulindac users had the highest rate of UGI tract bleeding, and it was the only drug statistically different from ibuprofen. When the average daily dose of sulindac received was divided by the maximum recommended daily dose, it was notably higher than those for other drugs. Repeated analyses using data from 1982 confirmed these results. We conclude that there are significant and consistent differences in the incidence of UGI tract bleeding associated with the use of NSAIDs in this population.
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July 23, 2008 - Ron Flaviano
When I was a child, back in the 1970s, the toys we played with encouraged the use of our imagination. We didn't have much in terms of video games, although Pong was a thrill at the time... We amused ourselves with the likes of Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and my personal favorite, Lego Blocks!
Tinker Toys were fun, but my sister and I could never manage to make the windmill work properly...probably because we were missing pieces!
My cousins had other construction toys like Erector Sets, but I really liked Lego. Now keep in mind that back in the 70s, we didn't have the complex Lego sets of today...ours were pretty basic. The most exciting pieces in my set were rooftops and windows. Even though I didn't have all of the the elaborate accessories, I managed to busy myself with the Legos. I would build tall towers, and even figured out a way to rig the garden hose into a Lego Fountain!
I must add that I really liked fountains too, and was quite dismayed when they removed the SUPER fountains from the midway at the Eastwood Mall in Niles. Anyway, in fourth grade I read Walter Lord's "A Night To Remember" for the first time. I was fascinated with the tragedy of the Titanic. This fascination spilled into the Legos, as I began building replicas of the ship out of the blocks. I would set them to sail in the stationary tubs in our basement... Oh the fun! My sister and I also had a lot of fun with the IDEAL game "Mousetrap"...it was really wild when all of the pieces of the trap were assembled and you got to turn the crank!
Generations of children after me had to use their imaginations less and less, as technology advanced in toy making. Don't get me wrong, I love all of the new video game systems and techno gadgets...but sometimes, simpler is better...especially when it comes to developing your imagination!
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