Browsing The 5th Annual International Conference of the Gulf Studies Centre by Publication Date
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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 ... -
Beh Tou Cheh? (What's It to You?): Feminist Challenges in Iranian Social Media
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)Online feminist activism has opened a different path for ordinary Iranians who are not necessarily versed in post-revolutionary discourses on feminism and political activism nor are conversant with the names and past ... -
Motives for Choosing to Study in International Branch Campuses in Qatar: Focusing on Nationalities in "National-minority States"
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)This paper clarifies the motives of students to study in International Branch Campuses (IBCs) in Qatar. In Qatar, a lot of IBCs have been established in Education City, for example, Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon ... -
Special Economic Zone Experience Overseas? Industrial Parks and Ports in the Gulf and China's Presence
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)The Gulf countries have shifted to a new development paradigm in which more dynamics are pursued. The evolution of industrial parks and ports facilitates local development and boosts connectivity. As industrial parks and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Emerging Transnational Identities: Indian Skilled Migration in the UAE
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)India has been the source of the largest annual outflows to the GCC countries. The increasing significance of GCC countries as a destination for migrant workers is illustrated by the change in total migrant stock in those ... -
The Problem of Marginal People and Its Governance in GCC Countries
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)The emergence of marginal people is the result of globalization. The process of globalization makes population flow an irresistible trend, and the relatively developed countries have a strong attraction to the population ... -
Migration and Social Change in the Gulf: A Comparative Study in the Six Gulf States
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)Migration and flow of people across the world is rapidly growing today. It was estimated that there were about 272 million migrants globally in 2019 which roughly constitutes of 3.2% of the world population. The Gulf ... -
The Dilemma of Being Gulf-born NRIs: An Analysis of Cases in Kuwait
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)This paper attempts to elucidate the dilemma of being Gulf-born NRIs (Non-Resident Indians), focusing especially on cases in Kuwait. As the Arab Gulf States (AGS) rarely offer citizenship to expatriate residents, the ... -
Education and Empowerment of Women in the GCC States
( 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
( 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
( 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"?
( 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
( 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
( 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
( 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
( 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
( 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
( 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 ...