Links to Additional Information about Egypt

Background Information

  1. Wikipedia: Demographics of Egypt
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt 
  2. CIA World Factbook: Egypt
    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html
  3. The Egyptian Government: Egypt's Geography
    http://www.presidency.gov.eg/html/geography.html
  4. United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Report
    http://www.undp.org.eg/
  5. United Nations Millennium Development Goals
    http://www.undp.org.eg/Default.aspx?tabid=77

Social Issues

  1. World Bank: Key Development Data and Statistics for Egypt http://devdata.worldbank.org/external/CPProfile.asp?PTYPE=CP&CCODE=EGY
  2. United Nations Development Programme: Egypt Country Profile
    http://www.undp.org.eg/Default.aspx?tabid=75
  3. Egyptian Center for Women's Rights
    http://www.ecwronline.org/english/index.htm
  4. UNICEF: The Situation of Women and Children in Egypt
    http://www.unicef.org/egypt/overview.html
  5. UNICEF: Issues Facing Children in Egypt
    http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/egypt.html
  6. Global Policy Network: Country Report, Egypt
    http://www.gpn.org/data/egypt.html
  7. Program on Governance in the Arab Region: Gender Issues in Egypt
    http://www.undp-pogar.org/countries/gender.asp?cid=5

Economic Issues

  1. Al-Ahram Weekly: Regulatory Obstacles for Small and Micro Enterprises
    http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/618/ec7.htm
  2. Al-Ahram Weekly: "Trying Times for SMEs"
    http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/667/feature.htm
  3. Eldis: The Paradox of Education and Unemployment in Egypt
    http://www.eldis.org/go/display/?id=13379&type=Document

Religion

  1. U.S. Department of State: International Religious Freedom Report, 2007
    http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90209.htm
  2. Wikipedia: Al-Azhar Mosque and Al-Azhar University
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University
  3. History of the Church in Egypt
    http://merf.woh.gospelcom.net/articles/egypt.html
  4. The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt
    http://www.coptic.net/encyclopediacoptica/
  5. Wikipedia: Evangelical Church of Egypt
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_of_Egypt_(Synod_of_the_Nile)
  6. The Estimate: Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt
    http://www.theestimate.com/public/01282000a.html

 

Links to Additional Information about CEOSS' Work

Agriculture and Environment
  1. ETC Ecoculture: Working Paper on Projects in Rural Egypt http://www.prolinnova.net/Working_Papers/WP1.pdf#search='CEOSS%20egypt'
  2. International Institute for Rural Reconstruction: CEOSS' Enviro-Agro Project
    http://www.iirr.org/PTD/abstracts/abstract13%20summary%20mainpage.htm
  3. United Nations Development Programme: Environmental Sanitation Of El-Hekr Area
    http://www.undp.org/governance/programmes/life/Case%20Study-El%20Hekr.doc
Education and Dialogue
  1. Communication for Change: Empowering Women to Claim Educational Rights  
    http://www.c4c.org/egypt.html
  2. UNESCO: Celebrating Education   
    http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30299&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
  3. Qantara: The 4th Egyptian-German Dialogue
    http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-356/i.html
Health and Housing
  1. Global Ministries: Nutrition in an Egyptian Village
    http://www.globalministries.org/mee/spo5.htm
  2. The Presbyterian Church of the USA: CEOSS’ Community Health Project
    http://www.pcusa.org/health/international/profiles/ceoss.htm
  3. Habitat for Humanity: Partnership with CEOSS
    http://www.habitat.org/intl/ame/61.aspx?print=true
Issues Affecting Women and Children
  1. Al-Ahram: Empowering Women through Film
    http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/457/feat1.htm
  2. Church World Service: Addressing Child Labor in Old Cairo
    http://www.churchworldservice.org/Development/project_description/descriptions/53.html
  3. Communication for Change: Taking a Stand against Female Genital Mutilation
    http://www.c4c.org/taking.html
  4. RHO: Positive Deviance Approach to Combat Female Genital Mutilation
    http://www.rho.org/html/hthps_progexamples.htm#egypt-ceoss