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Sanctions and the Socio-Economic Roots of Iran's Domestic Instability (2010-2020)
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Springer
, 2022 , Book chapter)
Since 2006 (if not before), sanctions imposed by the US and some other countries on Iran were aimed at depriving Tehran of financial sources allowing the country's leadership to buy the loyalty of its population. And, at ...
Social media and social change
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
The growing impact of new media around the world has been the subject of study by scores of scientists in multidisciplinary fields. Satellite TV and the Internet have been viewed as instruments of social and political ...
The Arab spring: A fourth wave of democratization?
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
Between 1974 and 1990, over 30 countries in southern Europe, Latin America, some parts of Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa made transitions to democracy, nearly doubling the number of democratic governments in the world. ...
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
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Taylor & Francis
, 2016 , Article)
Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities,
Islamic finance has become a global industry representing
both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the
emergence of an urban network ...
Oman's independent foreign policy
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter examines and explains the nature of Oman’s foreign policy. In doing so, it will apply three levels of foreign policy analysis, including the societal level, the state level, and the system level. The chapter ...
Well-Being Before the Arab Spring: Objective vs. Subjective Measurements
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
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(Muslim) Woman in Need of Empowerment: US foreign policy discourses in the arab spring
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article Review)
Why, in the current geo-political and strategic context seemingly in stark contrast to the "War on Terror," does the emphasis on women in US foreign policy persist? Why the repeated references to the vulnerability of women ...
The post Arab spring reform: The maghreb at a cross roads
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia ...
The Way We See It: Poetic-Visual Reciprocity in Egyptian Street Art Since 2011
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Brill
, 2022 , Article)
This article traces the manifestations of the newly adapted artistic form of “calligraffiti,”
or the synthetic braiding of poetry and graffiti on what became known as the “walls of
protest” in post-2011 Egypt. This new ...
Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring
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Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Article)
This contribution (and the special issue as a whole) marks a modest attempt to initiate an investigation into what is called here ‘democratic knowledge’. This is done with special reference to the Arab Maghrib (in this ...