Browsing College of Arts & Sciences by Type "Book"
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The 2017 Gulf Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Approach
( Springer , 2021 , Book)This book provides an overview of the origins, repercussions and projected future of the ongoing Gulf crisis, as well as an analysis of the major issues and debates relating to it. The Gulf region witnessed an extraordinary ... -
60 Years of the Loeb-Sourirajan Membrane: Principles, New Materials, Modelling, Characterization, and Applications
( Elsevier , 2022 , Book)60 Years of the Loeb-Sourirajan Membrane: Principles, New Materials, Modelling, Characterization and Applications bring forth theoretical advances, novel characterization techniques, materials development, advanced treatment ... -
Contemporary Qatar : Examining State and Society
( Springer , 2021 , Book)This book addresses critical topics and unanswered questions on the contemporary state of Qatar. Drawing together a unique combination of authors that have researched the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in general, and the ... -
Economic Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: From Rentier States to Diversified Economies
( Springer Nature , 2020 , Book)This book delves into the economic development of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Since the 1960s, the GCC states have harnessed their potential to exploit the wealth accrued from the oil boom to build ... -
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 ... -
Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution
( Taylor and Francis , 2021 , Book)This edited book aims at responding to the challenges posed by the speedy developments in satellite TV and digital technologies. It attempts at addressing media ethics from a global perspective and discusses how we can ... -
Interdisciplinarity in World History: Continuity and Change
( Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2016 , Book)This book represents selected papers of an international conference convened by the Department of Humanities at Qatar University, Doha, in March 2013. Its theme was “Interdisciplinarity in History: An Old Method in New ... -
Iran's Foreign Policy: From Khatami to Ahmadinejad
( Ithaca Press , 2012 , Book)This timely collection of papers by leading academics and prominent government officials sheds new light on the foreign policy of Iran under President Khatami and on into the period of President Ahmadinejad. Iran's foreign ... -
Iran’s Relations with the Arab States of the Gulf: Common Interests over Historic Rivalry
( Gerlan Press , 2016 , Book)Iran’s relations with its neighbours have never been smooth. During the monarchy, for example, while Iran cultivated close relations with Saudi Arabia it at the same time competed with Riyadh for control of the oil market ... -
Jacques-Marie-Jérôme Michau de Montaran , Rapport sur le commerce au Levant (1753)
( Les Éditions Isis , 2022 , Book)La naissance de la diplomatie moderne au XVIe siècle a permis aux chancelleries naissantes de s’informer d’une manière plus directe sur les pays hôtes. En effet, la centralisation accrue des États et des ministères des ... -
L'OTAN et le Maghreb
( L'Harmattan , 2014 , Book)Le Maghreb n’a jamais eu de place majeure dans les politiques et les stratégies de l’OTAN. Pourtant, après la chute de l’Union Soviétique, des approches visant à intégrer dans un dispositif coopératif simplifié les États ... -
The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception
( Ithaca Press , 2011 , Book)The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception provides a valuable introduction and analysis of some of the most important issues surrounding the new media revolution in the Middle East. In particular, the book ... -
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
( Routledge , 2020 , Book)Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on various sociolinguistic, semiotic, anthropological and discursive analytical ... -
Routledge handbook of the arab spring: Rethinking democratization
( Taylor and Francis , 2014 , Book)The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring, ' a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval. The meme of the Arab Spring ... -
Routledge Handbook on Arab Media
( Taylor and Francis , 2020 , Book)Routledge Handbook on Arab Media Edited by Noureddine Miladi and Noha Mellor This Handbook provides the first comprehensive reference book in English about the development of mass and social media in all Arab countries. ... -
Shifting priorities in Russia's foreign and security policy
( Ashgate Publishing Ltd , 2014 , Book)Given the resurgence of Russian economic capabilities and of Russia's role as a regional, even global, political actor, much of the literature written more than 4-5 years ago is already dated. The editor and contributors ... -
Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens
( John Benjamins Publishing , 2014 , Book)This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the ... -
Sport in Islam and in Muslim communities
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2015 , Book)As Islam's visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. ... -
Sport in the African World
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2018 , Book)Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today's globalized world, Africans and Africa have become a vital part of the international sporting landscape. This is the first book to ... -
Testing statistical assumptions in research
( wiley , 2019 , Book)This book facilitates researchers in checking the assumptions of statistical tests used in their research by focusing on the importance of checking assumptions in using statistical methods, showing them how to check ...
