• Volunteers of Oman during the Corona Crisis: An Exploratory Study in the Sociology of Altruism 

      Tabishat, Mohammed ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Volunteering is a major aspect of contemporary globalized societies. It has long been an indicator for proper functioning of society at large. Further, it made notable difference for individuals, groups and organizations. ...
    • Where rhetoric meets reality: an ethnographic analysis of the sports education sector in Qatar 

      McManus, John ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      This paper explores the growing provision of sports education in the state of Qatar. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in new courses in sports administration as part of wider, government-backed initiatives to ...
    • Where's the 'Bedouin' in 'Tribe'? Tribal Ruling in Urban Kuwaiti Society 

      Chay, Clemens ( 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 ...
    • Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East 

      Foyth, Joel ( 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 ...
    • Youth as Barometer of Socio-cultural Change in Iran 

      Tajmazinani, Ali Akbar ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Young people are regarded as agents of socio-cultural change as well as being subject to structural forces. These dynamics of interaction between agency and structure forms the outcomes of social change in any society. Due ...