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Contradictory Forces in the Gulf Environment: Old and New Cultural Values and Knowledg
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Berghahn Books
, 2014 , Book chapter)
While the behaviour of individuals impacts on the environment, institutional
attitudes may be more damaging. Government policies and
private sector initiatives result in large-scale construction and industrial
projects, ...
Rasulids
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Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
, 2016 , Book chapter)
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The relation between spaces and cultural change: supermalls and cultural change in Qatari society
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University of the Aegean
, 2017 , Article)
This study is the first attempt to ethnographically assess the influences of supermalls on cultural change. It takes a first step toward enhancing our understanding of the influences of globalization and consumer culture ...
Travel and Travelers
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Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
, 2016 , Book chapter)
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Agriculture and Irrigation
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Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
, 2016 , Book chapter)
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The intellectual frameworks and theoretical limits of Arab feminist thought
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
This is a critical assessment of the intellectual and theoretical underpinnings of
Feminism in the Arab world across the different phases in its evolution. The
paper notes what has been achieved in respect of some specific ...
Yemen's Tribal Idiom: An Ethno-Historical Survey of Genealogical Models
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
, 2017 , Article)
The notion of an Arab tribe has been widely debated by anthropologists and historians. Whatever its relevance in specific social and historical contexts, it often serves as idiom of alleged genealogical descent. Arab ...
Gender Roles in the Arab World: Development and Psychometric Properties of the Arab Adolescents Gender Roles Attitude Scale
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Springer
, 2017 , Article)
Scant research has been conducted on gender in the
Arab world; one explanation is due to a lack of Arabic measures
on gender-related issues. To advance scientific work on
gender in the Arab world, we developed the Arab ...
The hierarchy of authority based on kinship, age, and gender in the extended family in the Arab gulf states
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William S. Hein & Co., Inc
, 2013 , Article)
Almost all aspects of life in the Arab Gulf States, including family, have been touched by rapid, unstoppable social change. Nevertheless, certain aspects of the family remain intact. That is, although the nuclear family ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling ...