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The communicative function of public spaces
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Taylor and Francis
, 2018 , Book chapter)
The study of urban spaces has attracted increasing attention over past decades partly due to the symbolic role attached to them and their use by social movements. City squares and other prominent urban spaces are becoming ...
Power and citizenship in the social media networks: British Muslims, crime prevention and social engagement
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Debates about the potential of new media in citizen engagement and crime prevention especially among the youth have attracted interest of scores of researchers, policymakers and civilsociety organisations across the world. ...
Confidence intervals for quantiles using record values from the generalized exponential distribution
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2012 , Book chapter)
Likelihood-based and bootstrap confidence intervals for the quantiles of the generalized exponential distribution based on record values are developed. Intervals for the difference of quantiles based on two independent ...
Sport in Islam: The complexities, controversies and context
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Taylor & Francis Group
, 2015 , Book chapter)
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Research on sport and Islam: The way forward
(
Taylor & Francis Group
, 2015 , Book chapter)
[No abstract available]
Food Security in the GCC Countries: Towards a More Diversified and Sustainable Economic Development
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Springer Nature
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This chapter examines the challenges and opportunities for food security in GCC countries and shed lights on the strategies undertaken by these countries to enhance their domestic food security. These include the measures ...
Tunisia’s “civic parallelism”: Lessons for Arab democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter suggests that knowledge must be situated at the centre of explorations of Arab democratization, primarily through the inclusion of subaltern voices. To demonstrate this line of argument, the chapter addresses ...
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
(
Taylor & Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ...
Unruliness through space and time: Reconstructing ‘peoplehood’ in the arab spring
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter presents a critical account of the phenomenon of the ‘Arab Spring’. This it does via an unorthodox interpretation of why the Arab Spring élan represents a departure point from many 20th-century revolutions. ...
In-formalized polity and the politics of dynasty in Egypt and Libya
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
The Arab Middle East has entered a moment of revolution, inevitable counterrevolution, and transition. Integral to this moment is a dialectical dynamic in which the formal and the informal conjugate, through unsettled ...