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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 ...
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 ...
Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East’s Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring
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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 ...
'Why Do You Ask?' the Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World
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Cambridge University Press
, 2019 , Article Review)
For the first time in an Arab country, this article examines attitudes toward public opinion surveys and their effects on survey-taking behavior. The study uses original survey data from Qatar, the diverse population of ...
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 ...
Biomaterials Science and Engineering in the Middle East
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American Chemical Society
, 2020 , Article)
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Social Media Usage and Women's Empowerment in Qatar: Evidence from a National Representative Survey
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Introduction Social media usage has grown in importance over the past decade, particularly in Middle East. During this period, it has come to be recognized as more than a tool for social connections between individuals, ...
Wrf-chem simulation for modeling seasonal variations and distributions of aerosol pollutants over the middle east
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Atmospheric aerosols and dust have become a challenge for urban air quality. The pre-sented study quantified seasonal spatio-temporal variations of aerosols, tropospheric ozone, and dust over the Middle East (ME) for the ...
Business models innovation in investment banks: a resilience perspective
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
Firms frequently change their business models in order to respond to internal and external challenges. This study aims to explore how investments banks adjust their business models in response to internal and external ...
Psychotic-like experiences among university female students in Qatar: A qualitative-phenomenological study
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Frontiers Media
, 2022 , Article)
Background and aims: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are hallucinatory or delusional experiences that fall below the threshold of a diagnosable psychotic disorder. Although PLEs are common across the spectrum of psychiatric ...