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Social media usage and support for women in community leadership: Evidence from Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Is social media usage related to the acceptance of Arab women in community leadership? Since the Arab Spring, many have linked information communication technology (ICTs) with fast-moving political transitions, but their ...
Qatar Biobank Cohort Study: Study Design and First Results.
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
, 2019 , Article)
The authors describe the design, implementation and results of Qatar Biobank (QBB) for the first 10,000 participants. QBB is a prospective population-based cohort study in Qatar, established in 2012. QBB's primary goal was ...
Citizenship and Surveys: Group Conflict and Nationality-of-Interviewer Effects in Arab Public Opinion Data
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Springer
, 2019 , Article)
More research than ever before uses public opinion data to investigate society and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Ethnic identities are widely theorized to mediate many of the political attitudes and ...
Social identity and coethnic voting in the Middle East: Experimental evidence from Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
What explains widespread coethnic voting in the Middle East? The prevailing understanding revolves around clientelism: the view that MENA citizens support coethnic parties and candidates in order to most easily or effectively ...
The First International Zebrafish Conference/Workshop in Qatar.
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Mary Ann Liebert
, 2019 , Article)
A zebrafish conference/workshop was held in Qatar between April 13 and 17, 2019. The aim of the event was to promote zebrafish research in Qatar and in Middle East/Asia by bringing together local zebrafish researchers with ...
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in feral cats in Qatar
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BioMed Central
, 2017 , Article)
Background: Cats are essential in the life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii as they can shed the environmentally resistant
oocysts after acquiring infection. Human populations living in cities with high densities of feral cats ...
The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women’s Role Conflict in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Social norms in patriarchal countries in the Middle East are changing at differing rates. In Qatar, expectations about education have shifted, and women’s participation in higher education is normative. However, women’s ...
Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East’s Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring
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Taylor and Francis
, 2020 , Article)
Sectarian politics has retreated across the Middle East in the years after the Arab Spring, even as conflict between the region’s two main sectarian actors—Iran and Saudi Arabia—has intensified. This essay explores this ...
The UAE's Disruptive Policy in Libya
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SETA Foundation
, 2020 , Article)
In the last decade, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as a leading counter-revolutionary force in the Middle East. Feeling the heat of change in the region, the small, oil-rich Gulf country adopted an aggressive ...
Biomaterials Science and Engineering in the Middle East
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American Chemical Society
, 2020 , Article)
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