Browsing The 5th Annual International Conference of the Gulf Studies Centre by Publication Date
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Education and Empowerment of Women in the GCC States
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)According to the popular view, 21st century is regarded as an era of women. The rising tide of educating and empowering women has considerably influenced the lives of women in every walk of life throughout the world. ... -
Reverse Orientalism? French Salafis' Fascination with Saudi Arabia
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Recently, French Muslims have been seen by several media outlets and politicians to be increasingly influenced by some of the understandings of Islam generated in Saudi Arabia. While some connections do undoubtedly ... -
Analysis of the Women's Status in the Process of Iran's Socio-political Development in Last Forty Years
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Women's participation in political and social development is the one of the most important indicators in the process of sustainable development of societies. The present study examines the status of women's participation ... -
GCC and Political Divide: An Analysis of Potentials and Risks
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) since its establishment in 1981 has made tremendous achievements over the past forty years in economic, social, military, scientific and educational sectors which made the body to think ... -
Expressing Identity through the Dressed Body: Iranian Migrants in the Gulf
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Historically, communities have always travelled, traded, and intermarried across the Persian Gulf, resulting in the formation of transnational societies and material cultures. This paper focuses on migrants of Iranian ... -
Comments on Transnational Generations
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Emerging Transnational Identities: Indian Skilled Migration in the UAE
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)India has been the source of the largest annual outflows to the GCC countries. The increasing significance of GCC countries as a destination for migrant workers is illustrated by the change in total migrant stock in those ... -
Motives for Choosing to Study in International Branch Campuses in Qatar: Focusing on Nationalities in "National-minority States"
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)This paper clarifies the motives of students to study in International Branch Campuses (IBCs) in Qatar. In Qatar, a lot of IBCs have been established in Education City, for example, Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon ... -
The Problem of Marginal People and Its Governance in GCC Countries
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)The emergence of marginal people is the result of globalization. The process of globalization makes population flow an irresistible trend, and the relatively developed countries have a strong attraction to the population ... -
Transnationalism and Intersectionality: Views and Experiences of Second-Generation Filipino Youth in UAE Cities
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Permanent temporariness experienced by Gulf migrants--especially among middle class professionals and their family members--has received increasing scholarly attention over the last decade. Some migrant scholars further ... -
To Which Extent is the Educational Sector in the Gulf Countries Contributing to Social Change?
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)The overall theme of this conference is social change. This paper focus on one, however important, factor behind social change in the Gulf countries, namely that of education. Each of the Gulf countries have embarked on a ... -
Impact of Gender-related Legal Regulations on Pursuing Sustainable Development: A study of Kuwait's National Development Plan (Vision 2035)
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)This paper seeks to analyze the impact of gender inequality on the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as expressed in the UN Post-Millennium global program. More specifically, it aims to illustrate how gender equality and ... -
Where rhetoric meets reality: an ethnographic analysis of the sports education sector in Qatar
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)This paper explores the growing provision of sports education in the state of Qatar. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in new courses in sports administration as part of wider, government-backed initiatives to ... -
Youth as Barometer of Socio-cultural Change in Iran
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Young people are regarded as agents of socio-cultural change as well as being subject to structural forces. These dynamics of interaction between agency and structure forms the outcomes of social change in any society. Due ... -
Migration and Social Change in the Gulf: A Comparative Study in the Six Gulf States
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Migration and flow of people across the world is rapidly growing today. It was estimated that there were about 272 million migrants globally in 2019 which roughly constitutes of 3.2% of the world population. The Gulf ... -
The Gulf as a Global Contact Zone: Chronotopic identities and (linguistic) landscapes
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Migration, transformation, and urbanization emerge as the key- factors that brought changes in the Gulf area. Social change as changes in social interaction involve differently different segments of population, according ... -
Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)In 2011 Yemen began a process of profound political-social changes. At that time, various actors of the multiform civil society mobilized, achieving the removal of their president, who for more than thirty years had governed ... -
The Dominant Discourse Representing Iranian National Identity in Social Media: A Case Study of Twitter
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)Identity is defined through the comparison of oneself to the other and it is rooted in human beings' need to be different and distinguished from others. From a post-structualist viewpoint, identity is plural, dynamic and ... -
Identity and Globalisation: Tribal Identity in the Age of Social Media
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)The age of globalisation and technology have provided people with a platform to stay connected with each other. As elsewhere, social media is rapidly spreading in the Gulf region and creating a virtual forum for people to ... -
Social Media in the GCC`s Countries - Facilitator or Curse for Generation "Z"?
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference)The aim of this paper is to explore the directions and the magnitude of the social change in some of member's states of Golf Cooperation Council (GCC), by analyzing how traditional family interactions and pattern evolution ...