Report on democracy assistance from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa. EUSpring Report, 18 May 2016

Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, European Union (EU) assistance has nominally targeted more resources to supporting democracy movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The EU has better equipped itself institutionally, financially and conceptually, by strengthening its bottom up grassroots approach to democracy support; resources earmarked for supporting civil society have been increased, the budget for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) has been beefed up, and the strengthened EU Delegations have be come more empowered to reach out to groups at the local grass roots level behind democracy activities; The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) was created with the mandate to support individuals and organizations in neighbouring countries that work for democracy. Whether this translates into a more effective strategy for democracy support, however, remains to be seen. In this report, Rosa Balfour, Francesca Fabbri and Richard Youngs present a detailed overview of the support given to civil society in the MENA region by the EU, with a special focus on the various financial instruments used.

International organization and conference series II : Near and Middle Eastern and African. No. 1.

Volume has also a distinctive title: U.S. Dept. of State. the Suez Canal problem.

The iconography of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the delegation to the Middle East and Africa of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session.

Mode of access: Internet.

“How Do You ‘Do’ Bokeh?” The Aesthetics of How-to Videos about Background Blur and Eroticized Women

Producers of online instructional videos about bokeh emphasize disks of light and out-of-focus backgrounds. They demonstrate how camera lenses and technical features can render bokeh, or unfocused areas. Photographic and video bokeh ordinarily appears away from the center of attention. The bokeh genre, in opposition to typical photography and video practices, foregrounds the peripheral and proposes aesthetics and ways of looking by seeing and not seeing objects. However, producers of online instructional videos about bokeh sometimes couple their sensual aestheticization of backgrounds to their stated attempts to satisfy viewers’ investments in filling foregrounds with images of objectified women. These producers emphasize unconventional aesthetics as a means of establishing their creative and technical expertise and obscuring their reproduction of traditional conceptions of women as viewable and controllable. Close textual analysis, literature on photography and transparency, and feminist considerations of representation allow me to consider the aesthetics and functions of this how-to form.

The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the College Association of the Middle States and Maryland.

Issues for 1889-92 called 1st-4th but constitute 3d-6th Proceedings of the Association.

Italian sculpture of the middle ages and period of the revival of art. A descriptive catalogue of the works forming the above section of the museum, with additional illustrative notices.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rousseau and the women he loved /

Includes index.

A defence of the principle of monopoly; of corn-factors, or middle-men: and, arguments to prove that war does not produce a scarcity of the necessaries of life.

Mode of access: Internet.

Some resources for work with girls and young women in towns ...

"Written by Anna M. Clark ... assisted by Margaret O'Connell ... Maude Trego ... Anna Seaburg ... Marguerite Shepard ... "