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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 ...
The Problem of Marginal People and Its Governance in GCC Countries
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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 ...
Expressing Identity through the Dressed Body: Iranian Migrants in the Gulf
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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 ...
Transnationalism and Intersectionality: Views and Experiences of Second-Generation Filipino Youth in UAE Cities
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Permanent temporariness experienced by Gulf migrants--especially among middle class professionals and their family members--has received increasing scholarly attention over the last decade. Some migrant scholars further ...
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, ...
The Impact of Growing China-GCC Cultural, Education, and Research Relations on Gulf Society
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Over the past 15 years Gulf China relations have grown exponentially and involved all manner of business, energy, trade, political, and cultural relations. As these two regions of major economic power draw away from ...
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 ...
Special Economic Zone Experience Overseas? Industrial Parks and Ports in the Gulf and China's Presence
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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 ...
Impact of Gender-related Legal Regulations on Pursuing Sustainable Development: A study of Kuwait's National Development Plan (Vision 2035)
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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 ...
Art in Contact Zone: The Trans-regional Cultural Policy Making in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and the Formation of New Artistic Movements
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Dubai and Doha attempt to be known as transcultural places. These cities try to be situations that Mary Louise Pratt named "contact zone". Mary Louise Pratt as a postcolonial theorist tries to use "contact zone" concept ...