COVID-19 Research: Recent submissions
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Covid-19 in War-Ravaged Yemen: Ends or doubles the war?
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)Yemen is a suffering war zone since the beginning of the civil war in 2014, out of the clash between Yemeni government in Sana'a' and the Northern tribes, mainly, the Houthi insurgents. As of 2020, after two military ... -
Covid-19 Crisis and Iran-Turkey-Qatar Relations: Economic Downgrade and Corona Diplomacy
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The Covid-19 pandemic has become a global issue beyond being a health crisis alone. Since its emergence in China, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. The Middle East is no exception and the socio-economic ... -
Missed Opportunities: The Trump Administration, Iran, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)On the surface, the global coronavirus pandemic of 2020 might have offered the United States and Iran an opportunity to stand down from their virtual war footing. In the lead-up to the outbreak, Iran had shot down a US ... -
Oman: Food Security in Times of Uncertainty
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)As the protest illustrated, the affordability of food has been an issue of concern among Omani citizens. As a result of its arid climate, the salinity of the country's soil and water scarcity, there are restrictions to the ... -
Navigating Troubled Waters: Experts' Views on GCC Challenges for Socio-Economic Recovery in the Post-Covid-19 Period
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The GCC economies are being seriously hit by the negative impact of low oil prices and spread of Covid-19 pandemic. The restrained inflow of oil incomes deepens the budget deficit of the countries and makes government ... -
How sanctions and the pandemic affect Iran's economy
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)Iran has been under international sanctions of one kind or another for four decades, but its economy has never been as bad as it is now. In May 2018, the Trump administration began its campaign of maximum pressure to force ... -
علوم وهندسة المواد المتقدمة وأزمة فيروس كورونا
( Center for Advanced Materials- Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Program)المحاور الجلسة الافتتاحية: علم المواد ومجالاته وأهميته ودور المركز في بناء مجتمع مستدام عبر تحديات هذه الجائحة د. ناصر النعيمي مدير مركز المواد المتقدمة- جامعة قطر علوم المواد في مواجهة تفشي فايروس كورونا في الوقاية ... -
Saudi Arabia: More Room for Wahhabism Lite?
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The Saudi government was surprisingly quick to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the decisive measures it took was closing the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, something which had not happened since Napoleon invaded ... -
Covid-19, a Common Threat towards Intrusive Regionalism
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The Covid-19 pandemic news has become the top headline of almost all international media and the topic of everyday conversation among people. Coronavirus, like international terrorism is a global challenge to both states ... -
The Covid-19 Pandemic: Vulnerability of Migrant workers in the GCC States
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates) contain some of the highest numbers of migrants of any country in the world. Estimated at as many ... -
Pandemic threatens to drive wedge into US-Gulf relations
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)It is early days, but first indications are that the global pandemic is entrenching long-drawn Middle Eastern geopolitical, political, ethnic, and sectarian battle lines rather than serving as a vehicle to build bridges ... -
Saudi Arabia in Struggle for the Chinese Oil Market: the Price War as Necessity
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The new agreement between the OPEC members and a group of non-OPEC countries (so called OPEC+ group) that was reached on 12 April 2020 does not necessarily mean the end of the price war. Starting from May, the participants ... -
The Sudden Cost of Unexpected Threats: The Novel Coronavirus and Dubai
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The economy of Dubai is remarkable in that it has moved away from an oil-based to one in which 95% of its income is derived from non-oil sectors. This diversification has been possible thanks to the real estate, tourism, ... -
Covid-19 in Kuwait: An Opportunity for the Government
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The first Covid-19 disease case was found in Kuwait on February 24th, 2020 when a Kuwaiti citizen was tested positive after coming back from Iran. Since then, the Kuwaiti government has taken many measures to contain its ... -
COVID-19 and Plummeting Oil Prices; a Time of Reckoning for Oman
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)As Oman braces itself to embark on the 'Oman 2040 Vision', the year 2020 comes as a year of reckoning in several regards. The death of Sultan Qaboos on 10th January, marked the beginning of an era where state institutions ... -
Covid-19 in Qatar: Well Versed in Crisis Management
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)As of April 13th 2020, Qatar has 2979 positive cases of Covid-19. Like a number of other countries, Qatar was caught off guard by the novel respiratory virus. Initially assessed as posing a low risk to the country, the ... -
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by direct RT-qPCR on nasopharyngeal specimens without extraction of viral RNA.
( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)To circumvent the limited availability of RNA extraction reagents, we aimed to develop a protocol for direct RT-qPCR to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swabs without RNA extraction. Nasopharyngeal specimens positive ... -
Targeting SARS-CoV2 Spike Protein Receptor Binding Domain by Therapeutic Antibodies
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)The Authors As the number of people infected with the newly identified 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) is continuously increasing every day, development of potential therapeutic platforms is vital. Based on the comparatively ... -
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (Lamp): A rapid, sensitive, specific, and cost-effective point-of-care test for coronaviruses in the context of covid-19 pandemic
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)The rampant spread of COVID-19 and the worldwide prevalence of infected cases demand a rapid, simple, and cost-effective Point of Care Test (PoCT) for the accurate diagnosis of this pandemic. The most common molecular tests ... -
Comorbid diabetes and the risk of disease severity or death among 8807 COVID-19 patients in China: A meta-analysis.
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Diabetes mellitus has been reported to be one of the most prevalent comorbidity in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We aimed to assess the association of comorbid diabetes with COVID-19 severity or mortality ...
