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Covid-19 in Saudi Arabia: Beyond the health crisis
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The Covid-19 pandemic is already exerting a heavy economic toll on all areas of the world. The energy producing countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) make no exception. In Saudi Arabia, the economic impact of the ... -
Covid-19 in War-Ravaged Yemen: Ends or doubles the war?
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)Yemen is a suffering war zone since the beginning of the civil war in 2014, out of the clash between Yemeni government in Sana'a' and the Northern tribes, mainly, the Houthi insurgents. As of 2020, after two military ... -
Covid-19 inspired a stem-based virtual learning model for middle schools—a case study of Qatar
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)An unprecedented turn in educational pedagogies due to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the students’ learning process worldwide. This article describes developing a STEM-based online course during the ... -
The COVID-19 pandemic and the case of Little Birds Kindergarten in Qatar: strategic challenges and the role of leadership
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Learning outcomes The aim of this study is to make students understand the significance of strategy formulation and the impact of internal and external factors on the strategy adopted by the firm. Upon the completion of ... -
COVID-19 risk score as a public health tool to guide targeted testing: A demonstration study in Qatar
( Public Library of Science , 2022 , Article)We developed a Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk score to guide targeted RTPCR testing in Qatar. The Qatar national COVID-19 testing database, encompassing a total of 2,688,232 RT-PCR tests conducted between February ... -
COVID-19 Vaccination: The Mainspring of Challenges and the Seed of Remonstrance
( MDPI , 2021 , Article Review)As of March 2020, the time when the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) became a pandemic, our existence has been threatened and the lives of ... -
Covid-19, a Common Threat towards Intrusive Regionalism
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)The Covid-19 pandemic news has become the top headline of almost all international media and the topic of everyday conversation among people. Coronavirus, like international terrorism is a global challenge to both states ... -
Covid-19: Challenges & Perspectives
( College of Medicine - Qatar University , 2020 , Video)A Virtual Conference to shed light on the QU's prominent trends and research efforts addressing Corona virus. -
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities, Islamic finance has become a global industry representing both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the emergence of an urban network ... -
Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Using international data, we find that Islamic MFIs experience reduced credit risk by offering more groups loans, serving more women, and serving more borrowers in rural locations. Conventional MFIs benefit from fewer group ... -
Criminalizing Domestic Violence in Qatar: A Case Study of Student Activism
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Globally, gender based violence effects one out of every three women. Recently, the alarming rise in reported cases of domestic violence in Qatar has led to a national call to find an effective way to deal with the issue. ... -
Crisis, State Legitimacy, and Political Participation in a Non-Democracy: How Qatar Withstood the 2017 Blockade
( Middle East Institute , 2019 , Article)This article uses rare, nationally representative survey data collected before and after the blockade of Qatar that began in June 2017 to assess its impact on citizens’ orientations toward the Gulf Cooperation Council, ... -
Critical Behavior of La0.8Ca0.2Mn1−xCoxO3 Perovskite (0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.3)
( MDPI , 2017 , Article)The critical properties of La0.8Ca0.2Mn1−xCoxO3 (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3) compounds were investigated by analysis of the magnetic measurements in the vicinity of their critical temperature. Arrott plots revealed that the ... -
A critical review of research on STEM education in Qatar
( Common Ground Research Networks , 2021 , Article Review)In the light of the mounting national promotion, encouragement, and support of the skillsets that are critical to the knowledge economy in Qatar, the present article offers a critical review of the current body of literature ... -
A critical review on Pulicaria species occurring in Qatar: traditional uses, phytochemistry and biological activities
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)In Qatar, three main species of Pulicaria (from Asteraceae) such as Pulicaria undulata (L.) C.A.Mey, Pulicaria gnaphalodes (Vent.) Boiss. and Pulicaria sicula (L.) Moris are reported. Traditionally, these species have ... -
Cross-cultural Differences in Hallucinations: A Comparison Between Middle Eastern and European Community-Based Samples
( Oxford University Press , 2023 , Article)BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: While literature indicates that culture modulates phenomenological characteristics of hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, little is known about the extent culture modulates these ... -
Cross-cultural Differences in Hallucinations: A Comparison Between Middle Eastern and European Community-Based Samples
( NLM (Medline) , 2023 , Article)BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: While literature indicates that culture modulates phenomenological characteristics of hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, little is known about the extent culture modulates these ... -
Cross-talk between the microbiome and chronic inflammation in esophageal cancer: potential driver of oncogenesis
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Esophageal cancer (EC) is frequently considered a lethal malignancy and is often identified at a later stage. It is one of the major causes of cancer-related deaths globally. The conventional treatment methods like ... -
Crosstalk between HER2 and PD-1/PD-L1 in Breast Cancer: From Clinical Applications to Mathematical Models.
( Springer , 2020 , Article)Breast cancer is one of the major causes of mortality in women worldwide. The most aggressive breast cancer subtypes are human epidermal growth factor receptor-positive (HER2) and triple-negative breast cancers. Therapies ... -
Crosstalk between Microglia and Neurons in Neurotrauma: An Overview of the Underlying Mechanisms.
( Bentham Science Publishers , 2022 , Article Review)Microglia are the resident immune cells of the brain and play a crucial role in housekeeping and maintaining homeostasis of the brain microenvironment. Upon injury or disease, microglial cells become activated, at least ...