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Evil Eye and Health: Exploring Cultural Beliefs and the Role of Family in Healthcare Provision in Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)Cultural beliefs of the effect of the evil eye on health have been studied across many cultures, which is where a person receives the evil eye from another for various reasons and it causes them harm, such as getting ill. ... -
Expressing Identity through the Dressed Body: Iranian Migrants in the Gulf
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)Historically, communities have always travelled, traded, and intermarried across the Persian Gulf, resulting in the formation of transnational societies and material cultures. This paper focuses on migrants of Iranian ... -
Factors that Increase the Likelihood of Divorce: A survey of Married People in Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)In this study we provided married participants (n= 379) 18-50 with 17 possible reasons (e.g., physical violence) for divorce and asked them to rate the likelihood of obtaining divorce using a 5-point Likert scale ranging ... -
Family and Citizenship in the Gulf: The future of citizenship for non-national men who marry to national women
( 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, ... -
Family Cohesion Index in Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)This project aims to understand the concept of family cohesion, and attempts to measure 'family cohesion' in Qatar. A questionnaire was adapted from several validated scales, testing many aspects related to this greater ... -
Family policies in the UAE: what is at stake?
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has paid a great deal of attention to families since the beginning of the century. Three factors may explain the rationale behind the public policies in this domain. First, like in the other ... -
Fathers' Involvement in Family and Youth's Delinquent Behaviour
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we developed an Arabic Fathering Scale using data from 450 middle and high school students in Qatar between 12 and 19 years of age (M=15.24, SD= 1.74). We developed 38 items about father involvement in various ... -
Fertility Decline in the GCC: Causes and the Way Forward Evidence from Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)Fertility rates in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been declining in recent decades. This decline has been attributed to a number of factors, including urbanization, education, and employment opportunities for ... -
From the Renewed Policy of Sport Mega Events to Prosumerism: Articulating the challenges faced by the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2022 , Conference Paper)Although research has long focused upon Sport Mega Events (SMEs) in the Global North, it is only in recent decades that a similar level of scrutiny has been applied to SMEs outside of this region, and particularly those ... -
GCC and Political Divide: An Analysis of Potentials and Risks
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) since its establishment in 1981 has made tremendous achievements over the past forty years in economic, social, military, scientific and educational sectors which made the body to think ... -
Gender Role Belief Predictors of Husbands' and Wives' Involvement in Household Labor in Kuwaiti and Qatari Families
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)Couched within the bioecological systems theory, this paper examined 1) whether Kuwaiti and Qatari husbands and wives differed in their sex-role belief structure regarding the spousal distribution of household labor in the ... -
How Parents in the Gulf States Can Guide Their Children Toward Healthy Environments in the Social Media World
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)Children and adolescents spend considerable time surfing and using social media sites. They use the internet for many purposes including to interact with family and friends, access games, watch videos and to blog. Social ... -
Identity and Globalisation: Tribal Identity in the Age of Social Media
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)The age of globalisation and technology have provided people with a platform to stay connected with each other. As elsewhere, social media is rapidly spreading in the Gulf region and creating a virtual forum for people to ... -
Impact of Gender-related Legal Regulations on Pursuing Sustainable Development: A study of Kuwait's National Development Plan (Vision 2035)
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)This paper seeks to analyze the impact of gender inequality on the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as expressed in the UN Post-Millennium global program. More specifically, it aims to illustrate how gender equality and ... -
Impact of Twitter on Qatar youth perspectives: activism, digital authoritarianism, and democratization
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2023 , Conference Paper)This paper aims to investigate the impact of social media on the political perspectives of young people in Qatar by employing an in-depth quantitative interview methodology with students aged 18 to 25 from universities in ... -
Infrastructural, Socio-cultural and Economic Issues Dealing with Disabled Spectators: Lessons from the FIFA World Cup 2018.
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2022 , Conference Paper)FIFA World Cup 2018 took place in Russia during 14th of June - 15th of July 2018. More than 3 million people watched the games of the 2018 World Cup live in the 11 cities stadiums across country. The average attendance at ... -
International military organizations of the Global South: comparing the Peninsula Shield Force, the Africa Standby Force, and the Southern Cross Combined Force
( 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 ... -
Iran, energy, and geopolitics in 2019: From "strategic patience" to "lose-lose"
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2019 , Conference Paper)In the geopolitical rivalry between Iran and the United States, energy is in the spotlight. Since the US exit from the nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA) in May 2018 and the launch of the "maximum ... -
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
( 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 ... -
Key Issues for Long Term Climate Policy Design in Gulf Countries with Focus on Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2019 , Conference Paper)We analyze the challenges and options of designing an efficient global climate policy for GCC countries. We review the exposure of GCC countries to climate risks and the mitigation and adaptation options at their disposal. ...