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Family and Citizenship in the Gulf: The future of citizenship for non-national men who marry to national women
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Cross-national marriages states bring forth various benefits, including increased cross-cultural interaction, prevention of genetic disorders, and reduced marriage costs compared to endogamous unions. While, as per statistics, ...
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions' Impact and the Alternatives
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2022 , Article)
This article investigates whether sanctions have changed or influenced Iran's trade patterns, focusing on neighboring countries. The study concentrates first on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), considered Iran's main regional ...
Qatar in Paris: Paris St-Germain, Cosmopolitanism, and National Identity Performance Post-2022
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2022 , Conference Paper)
In this project, I take the negative media coverage that the 2022 World Cup has received from much of the western press as a starting point to discuss the Qatari ownership of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club as a ...
Migrant Domestic Workers and Gulf Families: A Case of Saudi Arabia
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Domestic workers comprise 10% of Arabian Gulf immigration. Gulf families rely on domestic staff for children and elderly care. National women's employment has increased Gulf households' demand for domestic workers. Saudi ...
Reconfiguring the Regional Security Architecture in the Persian Gulf: Intra-GCC Conflicts, Relations with Iran, and Great Power Interests
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) -Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)- were often characterized as being a part of a singular unit and assumed to be following ...
International military organizations of the Global South: comparing the Peninsula Shield Force, the Africa Standby Force, and the Southern Cross Combined Force
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
In the post-Cold War era, only three international military organizations with standing headquarters made up exclusively of militaries of states in the Global South have emerged in the field of peace operations. These are ...
It's just not cricket: what we can learn about Qatar's sports strategy by comparing the FIFA World Cup with other mass-participation sports
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2022 , Conference Paper)
This paper sheds new light on the motivations and expectations of Qatar's hosting of FIFA 2022 Men's World Cup by comparing football with another popular sport in the country: cricket. In order to understand the particularities ...
كوفید- 19 والتماسك الأسري: دراسة مقارنة بین قطر والسودان
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
لقد أثرت جائحة فیروس كورونا على العالم خلال الفترة من 2020 إلى 2022 ، وكان لھا تأثیر غیر مسبوق على الأنظمة الاجتماعیة والتعلیمیة والصحیة والاقتصادیة في جمیع دول العالم بسبب انتشارھا السریع. وقد شھدنا تحولات حادة أعاقت ...
The Role of GCC Foreign Aid Policy in Enhancing the Regional Security: The Case of the State of Qatar
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents an important aspect of the regional security of the GCC region and the neighboring countries. It explores the use of foreign aid policy in GCC states, and the state of Qatar in particular, to enhance ...
Rapid decline in family size in Oman: Untangling the puzzles and paradoxes
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Sultanate of Oman has experienced a rapid demographic transition with a sharp decrease in fertility and family size in recent time that is quite stunning and more than expected, yet has remained largely unnoticed. It is ...