AUC Reference

Questions on National Refugee Laws

Students in FMRS are now doing their research papers and must find legal documents to use as sources.  Many people will be looking for national laws regarding refugees. 

For those doing research on Europe, the US, Canada, Asia, South Africa or Australia, please direct them to the government pages regarding immigration/refugees (google-able) AND also direct them to http://www.refugeecaselaw.org/links_3.asp

For those doing research on other countries, specifically in South America and Africa, our resources are slim, but there are some good things to be found at http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/215.html  if you search under the country you are interested in.  *NB: you must know the language of the country you are researching to read most of these laws (not local languages, but things like English, French, or Spanish).

Also, this section of the UNHCR site may be a useful resource.

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/template?page=research&src=/static/legal.html
Under the RefLeg-National Legislation section you can select your country in the drop down box.  You can also use this site to search refugee policy documents by country. Universal and regional instruments.

Human Rights Search Engine

International Legal Search Engine: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

http://www.whatconvention.org/

A trilingual legal search engine that provides systematic access to Human rights and  humanitarian law. With over 250 international conventions analyzed article by article, it  provides functions such as:

• access to a country’s obligations
• access to the key articles
• reservations made by the country
• customary law when relevant
• status of ratifications

Languages

• French
• English
• Spanish

Psychological Tests and Tools

Here are the 2 free  sites for psychological tests and tools. 

http://www.psychtests.com/tests/index.html

www.queendom.com/tests

Arabic Authors

PRINT RESOURCES

Crosshatching in global culture : a dictionary of modern Arab writers / edited by John J. Donohue and Leslie Tramontini.
Main Ref: PJ7521 .C357 2004 v.1 and v.2

Encyclopedia of Arabic literature / edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey.
Main Ref: PJ7510 .E53 1998 v. 1 and v.2

The undergraduate's companion to Arab writers and their web sites / Dona S. Straley. 
Main Ref: PJ7517 .S76 2004, Coverage:  Pre-Islam to  Present; Sections for each author include Websites, Translations, Biography & Criticism

E-RESOURCES

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

• Click "Authors by Type," then choose EGYPTIAN for "Author Nationality"
• EGYPTIAN Authors in LRC: Andree Chedid, Apollonius Rhodius, Bahaa Taher, C. S. Forester, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Gabriele Reuter, Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, Marguerite Abdul-Masih, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Naguib Mahfouz, Plotinus, Soha Abdel Kader

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)

• Subject Headings Include:  Arab American writers, Arab immigrant writers, Arabic language translation, Arabic literary tradition, Arabic philology, Arabic poetics, Arabic poetry, Arab immigrant writers, Arab women writers, Arab writers, Copts, Egyptian tradition, Egyptian women, Egyptian-Coptic language literature, Egyptians, Egyptian students, Egyptian writers

Laws of Egypt

Commonly requested laws in Arabic
(N.B. Files also on ref. desk. pc desktop):
Emergency Law, Download emergency_law.pdf 
Personal Status Law, Download Personal_Status_Law.pdf
Children Law, Download Children_Law.pdf
Criminal Law, Download Criminal_law.pdf

Helpful resource:
Egypt and its laws, Main Reference KRM68 .E35 2002
Users researching Egyptian Laws will find this book useful. From the preface: "the chapters of this book reveal... history, sources, and main provisions" of Egypt's laws.

Web Searching Shortcuts

	GOOGLE	YAHOO	ASK.COM
Dictionary	define obdurate	define obdurate	define obdurate
Synonyms		synonym obdurate
News	Sudan	Sudan	Sudan
Weather		weather Cairo	Cairo weather
Calculator	5+5	5+5
Unit Conversion	35 km to mi	convert 35 km to mi	35 km to mi
Stocks	vod	quote vod
Currency Converter		convert 50 euros to egp
Time Zones		time in London	time in London
Encyclopedia		facts surrealism
Hotel Finder		hotels Cairo
Airlines/Flight Info.		British Airways 216

ADVANCED SEARCHING—GOOGLE

*These features are also available on Google’s Advanced Search Page*

site: restricts results to websites in the given domain (help site:www.google.com)
related: lists web pages that are similar to a page (related: www.m-w.com)
link: lists web pages that link to a particular page (link: www.auceypt.edu)
allintitle: returns only results with query words in title (allintitle: google search)
allinurl: returns only results with query words in url (allinurl: google help)
+ includes common words such as “when” and “how” in search
_ eliminates words from search (bass –music)
~ searches for synonyms (~food ~facts)
OR retrieves results that contain either word A or B (vacation London or Paris)

RESOURCES

The Extreme Searcher: http://www.extremesearcher.com/
Search Engine Showdown: http://www.notess.com/search/
Google Help: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
Google Labs: http://labs.google.com/

Calculating distance

This is a Bali site, but the distance calculator is global. (Student used it to calculate distance from various cities in Africa to the country borders or to other cities.) http://www.indo.com/distance/

Tips for World Travelers

Handy site for country-by-country information about electrical systems, time zones, telephone codes, etc.

http://www.kropla.com/

Directory of book Reviews on the Web

From AcqWeb…a handy site in and of itself!

http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/bookrev.html

Taif Agreement

Here is a link with the full-text of the Taif Accord, also known as the Taif Agreement (and sometimes transliterated at Taef!). 

http://www.mideastinfo.com/documents/taif.htm

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