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Culture and the World Cup: The Case of Qatar
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2022 , Book chapter)
The hosting of the World Cup is certainly a monumental achievement by the state of Qatar. Not only it brings the country to more international exposure, and helps it rip the potential economic benefits, but also it offers ...
Unruliness through space and time: Reconstructing ‘peoplehood’ in the arab spring
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter presents a critical account of the phenomenon of the ‘Arab Spring’. This it does via an unorthodox interpretation of why the Arab Spring élan represents a departure point from many 20th-century revolutions. ...
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
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Taylor & Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ...
Entrepreneurship, ICT and innovation: State of qatar transformation to a knowledge-based economy
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Oil and natural gas revenues still form the main part of national income and government revenues in Qatar. However, since, 1995, Qatar's economy is undergoing a critical transformation, shifting from a high dependence on ...
The Tunisian experience post-2011: The crisis of democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2023 , Book chapter)
Offering a critical counter-narrative that upends the received wisdom about Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, the analysis here challenges existing literature on Tunisia’s democratization since the 2011 revolution, eschewing ...
Tunisia’s “civic parallelism”: Lessons for Arab democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter suggests that knowledge must be situated at the centre of explorations of Arab democratization, primarily through the inclusion of subaltern voices. To demonstrate this line of argument, the chapter addresses ...
The new cultural turn in urban development for the gulf state: Creativity, place promotion, and identity: Doha as a case study
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Urban theorists and policy makers have begun to re-evaluate the significance of integrating culture into urban development strategies. Within the present growing global interurban competition, a new approach to urban ...
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Qatar: International Threats and Local Constraints
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
, 2022 , Book chapter)
Food security has been a constant issue in Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region since the 2007-2008 global food crisis. The Qatari government implemented two significant strategies: overseas agri-investments ...
In-formalized polity and the politics of dynasty in Egypt and Libya
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
The Arab Middle East has entered a moment of revolution, inevitable counterrevolution, and transition. Integral to this moment is a dialectical dynamic in which the formal and the informal conjugate, through unsettled ...
Russian and European foreign policy towards the middle east: An energy security analysis
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Ashgate Publishing Ltd
, 2014 , Book chapter)