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In this study, an attempt has been made to find out the relationship between job burnout, job anxiety and their various facets and job involvement among managers and clerical staff of banks. The sample consisted of 300 employees selected randomly from various branches of nationalized banks. A set of tools containing Job Involvement Scale, Job Anxiety Scale and Job Burnout Inventory was used to gather information. The data were analyzed by means of Person's coefficient correlation. The results revealed that (i) personal accomplishment, one of the facets of job burnouts was found significantly to be related to job involvement among the bank managers (ii) emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment were found significantly to be related to job involvement among clerical staff and, (iii) no significant relationship was found between job anxiety and its factors and job involvement among bank managers; whereas only self-esteem was found significantly to be related to job involvement among the clerical staff.

Das Hauptproblem der Massenmedien, vor allem des Rundfunks, in den arabischen Ländern ist immer noch ein Mangel an Freiheit. Meist sind die Medien nur Propagandainstrument des Staates; erst langsam bildet sich durch internationale Sender etc. eine gewisse Meinungsvielfalt. (DÜI-Hlr)

Die Bedeutung der Oppositionsparteien unter Mubarak hat sich gegenüber der Regierungszeit Sadats langsam verstärkt; in der Innenpolitik (gegenüber den religiösen Fundamentalisten) und der Außenpolitik (verstärkte Beziehungen zu den arabischen Staaten, mehr Abstand zu den USA) ist der Präsident auf die Zusammenarbeit mit gemäßigten Kräften der Opposition angewiesen. (DÜI-Hlr)

Egyptian photography artist Nermine Hammam (b. 1967) created her controversialseries, Escaton, between 2009 and 2013, to document changing social norms in anincreasingly conservative Egypt. Photographing holidaymakers on a beach in Egypt,she depicts heavily veiled female bathers enjoying the sea alongside male companions.Hammam sets these images against grainy black and white photographs taken ofher grandparents basking in European attire, on a similar beach, in a secular andWesternized Egypt of the 1950s. As these disparate slices of time and place cometogether, what emerges is a strong and unexpected record of sexual politics in modernday Egypt, emphasized always by the sensuality of the water surrounding the figuresas a backdrop. Behind the stark differences in the outward aesthetics of dress, onebecomes aware of a powerful repetition of poses across both sets of images. The centralspace occupied by the woman remains unchanged despite society's growing efforts toveil and conceal her. Confident and self-possessed, the woman as wife and mother sitsat the heart of each family unit holding the viewer with her powerful gaze, admittingus into her space. Men occupy the periphery of these images, leaning into the woman'sspace as footnotes to her central narrative. Unexpectedly, the camera reveals acontinuum of female strength across time.

The new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe achieved an economic and political tour de force on their way to EU accession. Their next challenge is the entry to the eurozone. Thus, the dynamics of public opinion toward the euro become crucial for political leaders. We test three perspectives - economic, political, and historical-ideational - with individual-level survey data from eight countries and conclude that the combined model best explains variations in support for the euro. In an environment of volatility in post-communist Europe, macro variables of economic and historicalideational factors have the strongest impact on individual attitudes, while micro-variables of economic self-interest do not further our understanding of euro support. Thus, distributional issues matter less than the aggregate national performance and experience. Political parties that garner support for the euro should therefore concentrate on economic consolidation and political stability rather than politicizing a winner-loser cleavage.