Courses
310 courses since 2014
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310 courses
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مختبر البحث الثاني - التأريخ الشفهي: أحياء الإسكندرية
يعتبر التأريخ الشفهي منهج بحثي مختلف حيث يرتكز على تجربة الفرد ووجهة نظره في الحياة. وهو أداة لتسجيل التاريخ والتجارب من خلال المحادثات "الشفهية". فيستخدم التأريخ الشفهي المقابلات لتوثيق القصص والسرد الشفوي مباشرة من الأفراد. ويساعدهم على اختيار كيفية توثيق وعرض قصصهم كما يرون…
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Why do I Love You? (The Structures of The Beautiful)
"Why do I Love You? (The Structures of The Beautiful)" is a theoretical course aimed at understanding why we think the things that are beautiful are beautiful and what this has to do with art. The Enlightenment lead to a strict categorization of the beautiful as an autonomous…
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The Research Lab: A Critical Introduction into Futures Studies
As the world undergoes accelerating and unstoppable changes, the question of the future has become more crucial for those concerned with creating a better world. It is increasingly important to have a sense of direction while navigating the ever-changing world and facing its c…
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The Media Lab: The Image as Theory and Practice
The Media Lab is a visual arts practice based course focused on photography with workshops on video, performance, and poetry. Each class will address three aspects of a visual arts practice: theory, history, and craft. This course will be a practice based course on how we use…
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Performing Fiction not enough without serendipity quest
The course aims to create a space for experimentation and imagination. Standing on the hypothesis of fiction as a reality, and being skeptical towards reality as a value - If reality does exist, fiction isn’t alternative but it is the other reality - Questioning if serendipity…
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Matte مصر Tropicália
The course has as the main focus a collective learning. It is an experiment in itself, practicing openness, care and listening, with a total engagement with ourselves and the conversations which will happen. To exercise this philosophy of decolonization we will practice and st…
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مختبر سيلاس للترجمة: الدورة الرابعة في الإسكندرية
الترجمة نشاط إنساني يحدث بين اللغات والثقافات وأشكال التعبير، ويكتسب أهميته من حيث أنه بدون الترجمة تصبح معرفة أكثر القراء اطلاعًا بالثقافات الأخرى من العلوم والآداب والفنون محدودة. لذلك يهتم مختبر الترجمة بمعهد القاهرة للعلوم والآداب الحرة (سيلاس) في دورته الرابعة في الإسكندر…
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المترجم فاعلًا: مقدمة في دراسات الترجمة
نعرف جميعًا أن مترجم الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية ينبغي أن يكون متسلحًا بعلم وفير، ومعرفة تامة باللغة الأصلية واللغة المستهدفة، وثقافة واسعة تخص النص الذي يعمل عليه، وقراءة واسعة لآداب اللغتين، ومعرفة بعلوم اللغة والاجتماع والفلسفة. ولكن منذ التسعينيات من القرن العشرين…
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Skills Lab
The skills lab run in parallel to the core curriculum. it starts from the organic towards the theoretical. dividing The lab into two parts, the practical and theoretical. Where students will be discussing theories stemming from practices and activities, in order to further ref…
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Natural and Social Sciences
Philosophy of science is the realm in which natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities can meet to expose the basic foundations of the human-being-in the world. As a philosophical inquiry into the nature of science and its “truth,” this field deals with the ultimate goa…
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Humanities and Arts
The Humanities are the vast areas of research and study that comprise all human-centric disciplines, from philosophy, the oldest of disciplines, to history, anthropology, literature, art, ancient and modern languages, law, politics, and religious studies. Overall, the humaniti…
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The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard
In this course we will read, interpret, and discuss the writings of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in provoking, reflective, yet relaxed sessions over tea and coffee. In a context where people all over the globalizing world are facing existential questions with regards t…
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The “Development of Underdevelopment”
Progress and development have captured the imaginations of thinkers and world leaders for centuries. Inspired by a broad range of theories about the human condition from economic rationality to social and psychological evolution theories, the race towards progress has justifie…
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The History of Modern Education in Egypt (1805-1970)
Everyone agrees that the state of our education is terrible, but few know precisely how it came into being. This course is an invitation to look more closely at our education system and to scrutinize it. Specifically, we analyze concepts such as nationalism, colonialism and mo…
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Social Determinants of Health
This course will critically explore the fundamental drivers of health that arise from social conditions. Situated at the intersection of social, behavioral and life sciences, course material will interrogate the myriad ways in which culture, race/ethnicity, gender, poverty, an…
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Portray: Women and Representation in the Middle East
In this course, we will examine the wide range of literature and media “representing” women in the Middle East and Muslim majority countries with a focus on the Arab world. We will be looking at both Western and Arab scholarship portraying “the Muslim/Arab/Middle Eastern woman…
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Pedagogy and Sustainable Architecture
A pedagogical approach to sustainable architecture: historicizing and documenting the case of New Gourna
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Mafish Faiydah? A Case Study on Myth and Silenced Voices
**Rationale:** Amid the independence negotiations with the British authorities, Sa'ad Zaghloul, the much praised nationalist leader of 1919 'revolution' said "mafish fayda"- no point- in reference to the complexity of the negotiation process. The story is true...at least acco…
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Libertarian Economics and Alternative Model-Building
When one challenges the conventional wisdom —that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed blueprint of how an alternative system would work. Historically, this is ridiculous. When ha…
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