Female Pioneers from Ancient Egypt and the Middle East

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Gender Role and Contributions of Women to Astronomy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt

   • Peter L. M. Kerkhof

   Pages 1-20

3. Septimia Zenobia: The Inspiring Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria (240–c. 274 AD)

   • Radwa Khalil, Ahmed A. Karim

   Pages 21-28

4. Female Pioneers in Islamic Middle Ages: A Theological and Psychological Perspective

   • Ahmed A. Karim, Huda Al-Jundi, Radwa Khalil

   Pages 29-45

5. Milestones of Egyptian Women’ Progress in Education and Science from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

   • Radwa Khalil, Ahmed A. Karim, Ahmed A. Moustafa

   Pages 47-60

6. Female Pioneers in Physics from Egypt

   • Hazem A. Karim, Ahmed A. Karim

   Pages 61-68

7. Nelly: The Eternal Pyramid of Acting, Film, Theater and Television Musicals in Egypt and the Middle East

   • Nihad Ibrahim

   Pages 69-94

8. Suhair Al-Qalamawi: An Egyptian Educational Icon Who Drew the Image of the Arabic Cultural Renaissance Throughout the Twentieth Century

   • Nihad Ibrahim

   Pages 95-109

9. The Pioneer Women: Rewriting the History of Gender in Sudan

   • Mawahib Ahmed Bakr

   Pages 111-128

10. The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda Between Rhetoric and Action in the MENA Region: A Case Study of Yemen and Libya

    • Moosa Elayah, Wafa Al-Daily, Maryam Alkubati

    Pages 129-143

11. Collective Trauma and the Muslim Women of the Christchurch Attack: An Observational and Media Study

    • Mahsheed Ansari, Mirela Cufurovic

    Pages 145-164

12. Muslim Women: Identity, Islamophobia and the Rhythm of Islam

    • Mahmoud Abdelhamid M. A. Khalifa

    Pages 165-186

13. It Does Matter: The Visibility of Women, with the Example of German Universities

    • Angela Bittner-Fesseler

    Pages 187-203

This book explores the contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts from Ancient Egypt to modern times, and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today’s gender role in Eastern and Western Societies.

Based on psychological studies on social learning, the book argues that profound knowledge of the historical contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts can improve today’s gender roles in Middle Eastern countries and inspire young women living in Western Societies with Eastern migration background.

Spanning disciplines such as Natural sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology, Sociology, Islamic Theology, History and Arts, and including contributions from diverse geographical regions across the world, this book provides an elaborate review of the gender role of women in Ancient Egypt and the Middle East, outlining their prominence and influence and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today’s gender roles.

 

• Female Pioneers from the Middle East
• Female Pioneers from Ancient Egypt
• Gender Psychology
• Ancient Egypt
• Egyptology
• Islam and Women’s Rights
• Gender Role in the Arab/Middle East Region
• Gender Role and Religion
• Historical Contributions of Eastern Female Pioneers
• Social learning Theory
• Discrimination of Woman
• Women's Role in Eastern and Western Societies
• Arts and Politics in the Middle East
• Female Pioneers in Islamic Middle Age
• Female Pioneers in Modern times Arts
• Media Images of Women
• Confoundation Between Culture and Religion.
• Cultural Traditions in the Middle East
• Eastern Female Pioneers
• Middle Eastern Women

• University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  Ahmed A. Karim

• Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Radwa Khalil

• Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

  Ahmed Moustafa

Dr. Ahmed A. Karim is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Jacobs University in Bremen and head of the research group “Neuroplasticity and Learning” at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. With his research group he published over 90 scientific papers and received several national and international awards such as the 2013 Young Investigator Award of the European Brain and Behavioral Society and the nationwide lecturer of the year award in Germany in 2021. Together with the German Ministry for Migration and Integration he launched several projects to promote integration and health psychology of refugees and citizens with migration background in Germany.

Dr. Radwa Khalil is a research scientist at the Department of Psychology and Methods, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. Her research is interdisciplinary spanning neuroscience, psychology and history. In 2020 she received the DAAD Award form the German Academic Exchange Service for outstanding academic achievement as well as social and intercultural commitment. 

Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is an associate professor in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience at Marcs Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development & School of Psychology, Western Sydney University. Ahmed’s h index is 44 and number of citation is 11310 (Google Scholar). Ahmed is trained in computer science, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. His early training took place at Cairo University in mathematics and computer science. Before joining Western Sydney University as a lab director, Ahmed spent 11 years in America studying psychology and neuroscience. Ahmed conducts research on computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD, and depression.  He has published over 200 papers in high-ranking journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Nature (Parkinson’s disease), Neuron, among others.  Ahmed has obtained grant funding from Australia, USA, Qatar, UAE, Turkey, and other countries. Ahmed has recently published seven books: (a) Computational models of brain and behavior; (b) Social Cognition in Psychosis, (c) computational Neuroscience Models of the Basal Ganglia, which provides several models of the basal ganglia, (d) Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; (e) The Nature of Depression: An updated review; (f) Big data in psychiatry and neurology; and (g) Mental health effects of COVID-19. 

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