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Recent Submissions
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Computational insights into the photocyclization of diclofenac in solution: Effects of halogen and hydrogen bonding
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2016 , Article)The effects of noncovalent interactions, namely halogen and hydrogen bonding, on the photochemical conversion of the photosensitizing drug diclofenac (DCF) in solution were investigated computationally. Both explicit and ... -
Saudi women and Islamic discourse, selected examples of Saudi feminisms
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article Review)Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent ... -
A Concubine in Early-Modern Egypt: The Example of Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)This article portrays the life of Al-Sit Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya, originally taken captive in Georgia and sold into slavery in Cairo, who rises from life as a concubine to become the wife of the Mamluk leader Murad Bey ... -
A new model for learning Arabic script
( Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti , 2016 , Article)This paper intends to solve a long lasting pedagogical problem that is still confronting Arabic learners and teachers by introducing a new approach to learning the Arabic script. The new model minimizes the 110 graphemes ... -
A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam's holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, ... -
Arab 'Parliamentarisation' in the Arab Spring context: The normative vs. the practical
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Qatar's global activism: Pursuing ambition in the midst of domestic and regional transitions
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Over the past decade, Qatar's presence on the global and regional stages has increased immensely, driven, in large part, by a growing sense of ambition among the country's ruling elites. Indicators of ambition are most ... -
Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
( Indiana University Press , 2016 , Book chapter)This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ... -
Metal/Metal-Oxide Nanoclusters for Gas Sensor Applications
( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2016 , Article Review)The development of gas sensors that are based on metal/metal-oxide nanoclusters has attracted intensive research interest in the last years. Nanoclusters are suitable candidates for gas sensor applications because of their ... -
Isolation, screening and activity of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from harsh soils
( Avestia Publishing , 2016 , Conference Paper)The study of microbial communities in relation to their ecology, interaction, and genetics must be covered in Qatar with special soil, weather and water. Microorganisms of an environment never having been exposed to such ... -
New parametric solutions of some abel equations
( University of Miskolc , 2016 , Article)New parametric solutions of some Abel equations of second kind are found. The scheme for construction of these solutions utilizes a combination of differential invariants of a symmetry of an associated second order ODE and ... -
Culture, social contestation and Turkey's failed coup: The rivalry of social imaginaries
( SETA , 2016 , Article)This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural ecosystem, relating it to Turkey’s failed coup. To accomplish that, it unravels how people construct ... -
US hard power in the Arab world: Resistance, the Syrian uprising and the war on terror
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book)Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of America's presence ... -
Egyptians in revolt: The political economy of labor and student mobilizations 1919-2011
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book)Egyptians in Revolt investigates the political economy of the Egyptian labor and student movements. Using elements of social movement theory within a broad political economy framework, it assesses labor and student ... -
Sport and politics in the Arab world
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)This chapter examines the interaction between sport and politics in the Arab World. In post-independence, in the 1950s and 1960s, sport was an arena for the consolidation of national unity, at least the way it was dened ... -
Mass communication sciences in the maghreb: A hybrid identity for an evolving discipline [Komunikasi massa sains di maghribi: Satu identity hibrid dalam disiplin yang sering berubah]
( Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press , 2016 , Article)Throughout the world, mass communication sciences had faced many difficulties to impose itself in the academic and administrative spheres as a new, entirely independent discipline. Even nowadays, certain fierce opponents ... -
Level of Maternal Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) F Antibodies in Hospitalized Children and Correlates of Protection.
(2021)RSV is a major cause of lower respiratory infections among children, where no vaccine is available. The stabilized form of the fusion (F) protein, pre-F, is a leading vaccine candidate targeting different populations, ... -
Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Is Inversely Associated with Monocyte Percentage to HDL Cholesterol Ratio among Young Healthy Adults in Qatar.
(2020)Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] is linked to an altered lipid profile. Monocytes play an important role in inflammation and lipid metabolism. Recently, monocyte percentage to HDL-cholesterol ratio (MHR) has emerged ... -
Societal implications of UAE tourism development
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Social workers in a Qatari health setting: responding positively to ethical problems
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Social workers in health settings often face challenging ethical problems in their daily practice. These challenges may be internal in nature and in particular related to their personal and cultural beliefs. The aim of ...
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