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Sovereign Wealth Funds: Problems of international law between possessing and recipient States
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)As the influence of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) is increasing in the world economy, the legal problems between the possessing States and recipient States become very important. The famous Santiago Principles are self-pledges ... -
Special and Differential Treatment: A New Factor Explaining LDC Engagement with the WTO Dispute Settlement System?
( Qatar University Press , 2019 , Article)The factors explaining the lack of participation and engagement by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism (DSU) have been the subject of much academic discourse. ... -
Sport and International Relations: Qatari Soft Power and Foreign Policy Making
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Sport plays a significant role in politics and international relations. However, the relationship between soft power and hosting a sports mega-event such as the Olympic Games, or the FIFA world cup is unclear. Most literature ... -
Stories Mediators Tell: World Edition, Lela Love & Glen Parker, eds. (ABA 2017)
( Qatar University Press , 2019 , Book Review)The book captures the experiences of twenty-five mediators who work in different parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, Russia, South Africa, Australia, Egypt and South America. Each mediator focuses on one mediation. ... -
Structural and Thematic Coherence in Qur’ānic Sūrahs (Taswīr ): A New Domain in Qur’ānic inimitability (Sūrat Al-Nisā’ as a model)
( Qatar University Press , 2022 , Article)Objectives: This study seeks to provide evidence for new aspects of the Qur’ānic eternal challenge, so as to offer humanity new insights unto the contemplation (tadabbur) of the structure and the meaning of the Qur’ān ... -
Studying the Place of Transcendental Ideals and Human Instincts in Modern Psychology: An Insight into the Alternative Discourse of Mohammad Rafi-ud-Din
( دار نشر جامعة قطر , 2024 , Article)The integration of psychological and natural sciences is an ongoing process that aims to understand the human mind in the context of the natural world. Rafi-ud-Din has made significant contributions to this field with his ... -
SUPPORTING PRODUCT INNOVATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE AUDIT
( Qatar University , 2015 , Article)Knowledge audit is considered as one of the first steps towards designing a knowledge management strategy for an organization. Knowledge audit opens up the eye of an organization in terms of understanding its current ... -
A Survey of Internet Financial Reporting in Bahrain.
( Qatar University , 2008 , Article)This paper investigates the extent and variety of internet financial reporting (IFR) by companies listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange (BSE). While IFR is fast becoming the norm in western countries, there is little empirical ... -
Survey of unreported cases of domestic violence in two heterogeneous communities in Nigeria
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Women in Nigeria are reluctant to report cases of domestic violence to the police. This study examines the magnitude of domestic violence in Nigeria. It also examines respondents' levels of education, culture, religion, ... -
Syria's world cultural heritage and individual criminal responsibility
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Recent reports have confirmed damage to five of the six Syrian world heritage sites during the current armed conflict as well as extensive looting of several of its archaeological sites on the Syrian Tentative List of world ... -
Syrian Economic Crisis in Arabic News: A Critical Discourse Analysis
( دار نشر جامعة قطر , 2024 , Article)This research utilizes the discourse analysis methodology developed by Fairclough and Leeuwen to scrutinize the portrayal of the Syrian economic crisis in Arabic news outlets such as Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, and Al-Ikhbariyah, ... -
Teaching Classic Islamic Texts in Modern Settings: The In-Class Struggle
( جامعة قطر , 2018 , Article)An assumption is often made that there is a link between extremism and the study of some classical Islamic texts. This article examines that claim by exploring the influence of classical Islamic texts on the extreme behaviour ... -
Technical and legal framework of Initial coin offerings
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Article)Today, blockchain-based technologies, such as the Initial Coin Offering (ICO), are capable of providing solutions for financing SMEs. ICOs are the issuing of digital tokens that will be sold to investors in return for a ... -
Technology at the end of life: “Medical futility” and the Muslim PVS patient
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Advanced life-sustaining technologies can now prolong indeterminately the lives of patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). However, where the assistance rendered is not expected to restore consciousness, they are ... -
TEXT MINING DATA FROM STUDENTS TO REVEAL MEANINGFUL INFORMATION FOR EDUCATORS
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Academic institutions adopt different advising tools for various objectives. Past research used both numeric and text data to predict students’ performance. Moreover, numerous research projects have been conducted to find ... -
The CFSP as an aspect of conducting foreign relations by the United Kingdom: With special reference to the Treaty of Amity & Cooperation in Southeast Asia
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Since the Lisbon Treaty’s entry into force in 2009, the Common & Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) retains its intergovernmental character, although its legal status is no longer separate from but part of a single European ... -
The Contemporary Significance of Ibn Khaldun for Decolonial Sociology: Methodological and Theoretical Dimensions
( دار نشر جامعة قطر , 2020 , Article)This paper discusses the significance of Ibn Khaldun for the social sciences with reference to a number of methodological and theoretical dimensions. The discussion revolves around what I refer ... -
The Effects of Islam’s Sociocognitive Transformation on Female Rights and Roles
( Qatar University , 2019 , Article)The advent of Islam resulted in an extraordinary revolution in human history because of the new intellectual ideology that transformed the way of thinking that was prevalent in 7th-century pre- Islamic Arabian society. ... -
The governance of religion and law: Insights from the prohibition of usury
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2014 , Article)Religion and law are often portrayed as belonging to different, isolated spheres and as conflicting with each other, especially with regard to the process of governing today's global economic and political affairs. The ... -
The limits on prosecutorial discretion in Singapore: Past, present, and future
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)The exercise of prosecutorial discretion is a unique executive act that continues to be very well-protected from public scrutiny in many jurisdictions throughout the world. In this article, I attempt to survey virtually ...