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    • QATARI FEMALE MANAGERS IN A WORLD OF PATRIARCHY 

      Lari, Noora Ahmed ( GIAP Journals , 2019 , Article)
      Purpose: The State of Qatar has widely sought to include women in public life and has implemented several policies in order to improve gender equality in the workforce and fair distribution of development benefits. This ...

    • Qatar’s first elections since 2017 reveal unexpected impact of GCC crisis 

      Gengler, Justin; Al Ansari, Majed ( Al-Monitor , 2019 , Article)
      Turnout in the Qatari municipal election has declined, suggesting a Qatari citizenry that is slightly less engaged in the formal political process in the wake of the GCC crisis.

    • Randomization in small sample surveys with the Halton sequence 

      Le K.T.; McRoy M.; Diop A. ( European Survey Research Association , 2018 , Article)
      Randomization has been widely used in surveys for various purposes such as within household respondent selection, rotation of questions and answer choices, and split sample (or ballot) technique for survey experiments. The ...

    • Reasons for Participation in Household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries, Qatar 

      Elawad, Elmogiera; Agied, Mohamed Bala ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Participation in public opinion surveys in the State of Qatar is voluntary, and respondents are not offered incentives for participating. Nevertheless, rates of participation in face-to-face surveys conducted by the Social ...

    • Reasons for unit non-response in household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries 

      Elawad, Elmogiera; Agied, Mohamed; Ibrahim, Saleh; Alkahlout, Ayman ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2013 , Poster)
      For in-person household surveys, it is fundamental to consider societal customs when choosing appropriate times and interviewer gender. However, even after all these procedures were taken into consideration with an eye to ...

    • Refinancing the Rentier State: Welfare, Inequality, and Citizen Preferences toward Fiscal Reform in the Gulf Oil Monarchies 

      Gengler, Justin J.; Shockley, Bethany; Ewers, Michael C. ( City University of New York , 2021 , Article)
      Against the backdrop of fiscal reform efforts in Middle East oil producers, this article proposes a general framework for understanding how citizens relate to welfare benefits in the rentier state and then tests some ...

    • Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar 

      Diop, Abdoulaye; Johnston, Trevor; Trung Le, Kien ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2016 , Article)
      Immigration in the Arabian Gulf is governed by the kafāla (sponsorship) system, which provides the legal basis for the residency and employment of foreign workers across the region. Despite mounting economic, political ...

    • The relationship between sleep duration and health status in Qatar’s population 

      Al-Thani, Maryam A.; Khaled, Salma M. ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      Knowledge of sleep duration correlates is limited to developed countries with a lack of studies in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Qatar is a rapidly developing country in the EMR with three distinct population ...

    • Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC 

      Gengler, Justin; Lambert, Laurent ( Middle East Institution , 2016 , Article)
      Built upon depletable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, the petro-states of the Arab Gulf have, since their beginning, always had one eye fixated on the end: the exhaustion of their life-giving natural resources, and ...

    • Research Report: The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf Region 

      Gengler, Justin ( Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2017 , Other)
      This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines ...

    • Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19 

      Ewers, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien Trung; Bader, Lina ( Routledge , 2023 , Article)
      The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has strongly reaffirmed the critical importance of labor migration to the global economy, even as it has raised questions about the temporary migration programs responsible for much of this ...

    • The Rise and Fall of Teacher Leadership: A Post-Pandemic Phenomenological Study 

      Ghamrawi, Norma; Shal, Tarek; Ghamrawi, Najah A.R. ( Routledge , 2023 , Article)
      This study explored teacher leadership functions during and post-school disruption, due to COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were recruited from three primary government schools in Qatar, and included 12 teachers, three ...

    • The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier 

      Poon, Jessie P. H; Pollard, Jane; Chow, Yew Wah; Ewers, Michael ( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)
      The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers ...

    • Road traffic fatalities in Qatar Jordan and UAE 

      Elawad, Elmogiera ( World Health Organization , 2016 , Article)
      ABSTRACT Smeed’s equation is a widely used model for prediction of traffic fatalities but has been found inadequate for use in developing countries. We applied regression analysis to time-series data on vehicles, population ...

    • The role of religiosity types in the phenomenology of hallucinations: A large cross-sectional community-based study in a predominantly Muslim society 

      Salma M., Khaled; Brederoo, Sanne G.; Alabdulla, Majid; Sommer, Iris E.C.; Woodruff, Peter W. ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      Religiosity is a multidimensional construct known to influence the occurrence of hallucinations. However, it remains unknown how different religiosity types affect clinically relevant phenomenological features of hallucinations. ...

    • School Leadership 4.0: Are We Ready? 

      Ghamrawi, Norma; Shal, Tarek; Ghamrawi, Najah A.R. ( Springer Nature , 2024 , Book chapter)
      This study explores the relevance of Leadership 4.0 in the context of Education 4.0 for school leaders. By investigating school leaders’ knowledge and perceptions of Education 4.0, the study provides insights into their ...

    • Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East’s Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring 

      Gengler, Justin ( Taylor and Francis , 2020 , Article)
      Sectarian politics has retreated across the Middle East in the years after the Arab Spring, even as conflict between the region’s two main sectarian actors—Iran and Saudi Arabia—has intensified. This essay explores this ...

    • SEPARATION HYPOTHESIS TESTS IN THE AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD MODEL 

      T. Le, Kien ( Oxford University Press , 2010 , Article)
      In an agricultural household model, farmers’ production decisions can be either separated or nonseparated from preferences. Since previous studies on agricultural household behavior and policy effects have shown that the ...

    • Servant Leadership And Perceived Challenges In Stem Classes: The Reinforcing Role Of Problems And Management Techniques 

      El-Kassem, Rima Charbaji ( GIAP Journals , 2019 , Article)
      Purpose: This study investigates how high school principals’ leadership can directly and indirectly affect perceived challenges (obstacles) in STEM classes, with specific reference to teachers in Qatar. Design/methodolo ...

    • SESRI Experience in Managing Field Laptops Deployment 

      Abdelhameed, Isam ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      In this technical presentation, I presented the way SESRI configure field laptops and prepare them to the field with maximum security aspects taken into consideration to safeguard against response data lost, Also how SESRI ...