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THE ARAB SPRING AND CHANGES IN QATAR FOREIGN AID ARCHITECTURE: THE CASE OF QATAR FOREIGN AID TO AFRICA
(2015 , Master Thesis)
It is uneasy to lose sight of the critical role foreign aid plays in Qatar's engagement with the wider world. Since 1995, Qatar has occupied an enviable reputation as emerging donor in the Middle East region. It relations ...
Editorial: New Media and Political Revival: The Middle East Story
(
OMICS International
, 2013 , Article)
It has become evident that the Arab revolutions that took place in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have marked a turning point in Arab politics. On the other side, it was also a turning point of realizing the importance of social ...
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
(
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 ...
(Muslim) Woman in Need of Empowerment: US foreign policy discourses in the arab spring
(
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 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. ...
The post Arab spring reform: The maghreb at a cross roads
(
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 ...
Las políticas de ciudadanía en los estados del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo
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Grupo de Estudios de Relaciones Internacionales (GERI)
, 2017 , Article)
This article explores the legal frameworks of citizenship and naturalization of the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and analyzes how they have been used since the creation of modern states to the present, with ...
Editorial policies and news discourse - how Al Jazeera's implicit guidelines shape its coverage of middle east conflicts
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
The article examines Al Jazeera’s internal guidelines. It focuses attention on the broadcaster’s editorial policies and practices, how they are created, the way they shape news content, and whether they are documented or ...
Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East’s Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring
(
Taylor and Francis
, 2020 , Article)
Sectarian politics has retreated across the Middle East in the years after the Arab Spring, even as conflict between the region’s two main sectarian actors—Iran and Saudi Arabia—has intensified. This essay explores this ...
Oman's independent foreign policy
(
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 ...