Mai iskander biography for kids
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The memories are vivid. The dust, the heat, the pervasive stench. The children holding hands, the sweetness of cane juice, and colorful Egyptian weddings. And the garbage. Who could forget the garbage?
It was the summer of 2007, and I was in Mokattam, a garbage village on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. In small villages like Mokattam, 60,000 Zaballeen, or “garbage people,” collect and recycle the trash of Cairo’s 18 million residents. Zaballeen manage to recycle 80 percent of what they collect. Most Western cities, in contrast, are lucky to recycle even 30 percent.
The village, and the stories of three local teens—Osama, Adham, and Nabil—are now the subject of an independent documentary film entitled Garbage Dreams, produced and directed by Mai Iskander. Tuesday night, as I sat in a San Francisco screening room, I didn’t know what to expect of a film that aspires to tell the story of a community very close to my heart. I knew to expect familiar faces. Of the three boys profiled, I knew two, and would recognize many others. Mokattam is, as they say, a place where everyone knows everyone.
While gracefully done, Garbage Dreams was not shy about pressing one central conflict: Cairo has contracted with multinational waste disposal corpora
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Garbage Dreams
The world’s largest debris village go over the main points just unreachable Cairo. Description Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) utilise 80 proportionality of interpretation trash they collect, but now conglomerate corporations menace their enterprise.
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Mai Datta
Dr. Iskandar-Datta is Professor of Finance and holds the Dean's Research Chair. Her wide-ranging research interests in corporate finance include executive compensation (and clawbacks), mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, leveraged buyouts, corporate cash holding policies, corporate restructuring, capital structure, initial public offerings of debt securities, to name a few. A highly prolific researcher, she has published in top finance, accounting, and management journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Accounting Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and the Harvard Business Review.
Professional experience
- Professor (tenured), Wayne State University, Fall 2004-present
- Associate Professor (tenured), Suffolk University, Fall 1997-2004
- Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Fall 1996-1997
- Associate Professor (tenured), Northern Illinois University, Fall 1994
- Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, Spring 1991-1994
- Assistant Professor, Bentley College, Fall 1986 - Fall 1990
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