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Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
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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 ...
Predicting academic success in health professions training and education: Insights from a data mining analysis
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Dropping-out is a very common phenomenon among students enrolled in Health Professions degree courses. For this reason, it would be extremely useful to have a model with the main variables that can predict, with a certain ...
Impact of piracy on Somalia: Society, economy, and state building
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Somali pirates have hijacked more than 270 ships and attacked over 1,100 vessels from 1995 to 2014 (IMB, 2014). Reports by the International Maritime Bureau estimate that more than 3,700 crew members have been held hostage ...
Teacher education and the development of teacher identity
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter reports on a study of teachers' professional identity development, which took place in a Sudanese English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program. The socio-political and economic discourses are ...
“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Qatar brands itself as a projected-in-the-future proud cosmopolitan and progressive country ready to host World Cup 2022. The branding practices, whereby this projection takes place, are the focus of Irene Theodoropoulou’s ...
Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The chapter aims at contributing to the sociolinguistic theorization of branding through a word-of-mouth marketing lens by delving into the ways whereby Mykonos is branded on Facebook. Place branding is investigated in the ...
Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic research which has been and is currently being conducted in Dubai, and has been published in the English language. After providing a discussion of ...
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
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Routledge Handbooks
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ...
The foreign policies of the small Gulf states: An exception in small states' behaviours?
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter discusses the emergence of the small Gulf States as small powers in the region and concludes by assessing the sustainability of the small Gulf States' foreign and security policies. Iran is the second regional ...
Small states in the Gulf
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reviews the theories of foreign and security policy analysis and the way they could be applied to small ...