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Education and Empowerment of Women in the GCC States
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
According to the popular view, 21st century is regarded as an era of women. The rising tide of educating and empowering women has considerably influenced the lives of women in every walk of life throughout the world. ...
Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
In 2011 Yemen began a process of profound political-social changes. At that time, various actors of the multiform civil society mobilized, achieving the removal of their president, who for more than thirty years had governed ...
Migrant Workers Impact on Social life of the Gulf Countries During COVID 19
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Six GCC countries are the home of the global migrant workers. As at present estimated that about 56 million population of collectively of GCC among 30 million populations are not nationals.Huge migrants population and ...
Social Media in the GCC`s Countries - Facilitator or Curse for Generation "Z"?
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
The aim of this paper is to explore the directions and the magnitude of the social change in some of member's states of Golf Cooperation Council (GCC), by analyzing how traditional family interactions and pattern evolution ...
China in the Middle East: Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Transformation, and Regional, Development
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper unpacks the complicated manners in which Chinese investment has taken shape in the Middle East, especially the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Rather than focusing on highly emotive (but ...
Where's the 'Bedouin' in 'Tribe'? Tribal Ruling in Urban Kuwaiti Society
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
In the contemporary era, tribalism has been reframed, time and again, as a primitive social form antithetical to modernity, and by extension, to development. Yet, the inverse is often true. In Kuwait, individuals of tribal ...
Identity and Globalisation: Tribal Identity in the Age of Social Media
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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 ...
The Gulf as a Global Contact Zone: Chronotopic identities and (linguistic) landscapes
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Migration, transformation, and urbanization emerge as the key- factors that brought changes in the Gulf area. Social change as changes in social interaction involve differently different segments of population, according ...
The Gender-Pay Gap and the Family in the Gulf: Root Causes, Implications and Policy Response
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Despite the remarkable progress in women's status in countries of the Gulf gender equality remains unfulfilled. According to evidence, the Gulf has been underperforming on the arena of women's economic participation, ...
Reverse Orientalism? French Salafis' Fascination with Saudi Arabia
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Recently, French Muslims have been seen by several media outlets and politicians to be increasingly influenced by some of the understandings of Islam generated in Saudi Arabia. While some connections do undoubtedly ...