تصفح The 5th Annual International Conference of the Gulf Studies Centre حسب العنوان
السجلات المعروضة 33 -- 36 من 36
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Where rhetoric meets reality: an ethnographic analysis of the sports education sector in Qatar
( 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
( 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
( 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
( 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 ...