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Sustainable Qatar : Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives
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Springer Singapore
, 2023 , Book)
This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires ...
The UAE's Disruptive Policy in Libya
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SETA Foundation
, 2020 , Article)
In the last decade, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as a leading counter-revolutionary force in the Middle East. Feeling the heat of change in the region, the small, oil-rich Gulf country adopted an aggressive ...
Qatar Biobank Cohort Study: Study Design and First Results.
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
, 2019 , Article)
The authors describe the design, implementation and results of Qatar Biobank (QBB) for the first 10,000 participants. QBB is a prospective population-based cohort study in Qatar, established in 2012. QBB's primary goal was ...
The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women’s Role Conflict in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Social norms in patriarchal countries in the Middle East are changing at differing rates. In Qatar, expectations about education have shifted, and women’s participation in higher education is normative. However, women’s ...
Social media usage and support for women in community leadership: Evidence from Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Is social media usage related to the acceptance of Arab women in community leadership? Since the Arab Spring, many have linked information communication technology (ICTs) with fast-moving political transitions, but their ...
Research Report: The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf Region
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
, 2017 , Other)
This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines ...
Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East
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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 ...
Lithology, mineral assemblages and microbial fingerprints of the evaporite-carbonate sediments of the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi and their extraterrestrial implications
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cambridge university press
, 2010 , Article)
Deep-core and surface samples collected from the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi were subjected to a multi-proxy study, including petrographic, geochemical and spectroscopic analyses. The sediments studied are composed of ...
Introduction : China's Economic and Political Presence in the Middle East and South Asia
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Taylor and Francis
, 2022 , Book chapter)
This book assesses China's economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia with a particular focus on Beijing's relations with the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, ...
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 ...