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    • The Role of Apocalyptic Prophecies in ISIS Terrorism 

      Karataş, Ibrahim; كارتاش, إبراهيم ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)
      Purpose: This study aims to reveal how ISIS exploits apocalyptic prophecies stated in the Qur’an and hadiths to find new recruits and legitimize its ideology. The study tries to identify how sensitive issues of Islam are ...

    • Courting Islam: The Evolution of Perceptions of Islam within the British and American governments from the European Colonial period to the War on Terror 

      Oilver-Dee, Sean; أوليفر دي, شون ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)
      Purpose: This article explores the changing attitudes to, and perceptions of Islam that developed over a period in which substantive engagements between Anglo-American strategic interests brought them more and more into ...

    • Islam in New Zealand – A Mixed Reception: Historical Overview and Contemporary Challenges 

      Drury, Abdullah; Pratt, Douglas; دروري, عبد الله; برات, دوغلاس ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)
      Purpose: This research aims to discuss the history of Islam in New Zealand, together with some of the pressing issues and challenges Muslims have encountered along the way. Looking back at the history of early Muslim ...

    • الإسلاموفوبيا والأكاديميا الفرنسية 

      حجات, عبد العالي; بن لحسن, بدران; الشمري, نايف بن نهار ( دار نشر جامعة قطر , 2021 , Article)
      يهدف هذا المقال إلى دراسة الجدل الأكاديمي الفرنسي المتعلق بالإسلاموفوبيا؛ فهو يثير سؤالًا عامًا حول استقلالية العلوم الاجتماعية عن مجال الإعلام السياسي، ومدى قدرة الباحثين على اعتمادهم على ذاتهم ومرجعيتهم الأكاديمية، وإبعاد ...

    • Cumulative, Collaborative, Disruptive ; Architectural geometry in research, practice, and its imminent mainstream future 

      Bhooshan, Vishu; Bhooshan, Shajay ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Solutions to the significant social, ecological and economic opportunities and problems of 21st century architecture and urbanism involve a vast number of variables. These solutions will require the use of data-driven ...

    • The Extreme Structures of our Universe 

      Icke, Vincent ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      My story is a tale of extremes. Extreme artificial structures that we have built on and around planet Earth. Extreme natural structures that exist in our Universe, and extreme structures in our mind, when we try to understand ...

    • Shared Models and Open Infrastructures for the smart City Internet of Things based on the Semantic Web 

      Banane, Mouad; Belangour, Abdessalam ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Contemporary cities face many challenges: energy, ecological, demographic or economic. To answer this, technological means are implemented in cities through the use of sensors and actuators. These cities are said to be ...

    • Fundamentals of Robotic Fabrication in Architecture: Multi Materiality, Multiscale Resolution and Multimode Production 

      Mostafavi, Sina; Moharram, Mohammad Saad; Khaeez, Adeeb ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      This paper discusses the recent advancement in architectural materialization processes. The focus is on design to robotic production systems through which the realization of more efficient building processes and building ...

    • Using the fractal dimension to generate parametric Islamic patterns 

      Abdelsalam, Mai; Abdelsalam, Hassan ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the cause for over 70% of global deaths. Various levels of healthcare delivery from home-care to tertiary care exist for patients where patients with NCDs are treated. Demand for services ...

    • Adaptive architecture, an implementation with game theory. Emotional input and pneumatically driven actuator 

      Blanchi, Yann; Touati, Corinne; Mortamais, Elizabeth ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      In the active context of adaptive architecture, this proposal tackles the field of Human Building Interaction. Indeed, material would no longer be inert but activated by the users, programmable and equipped with memory. ...

    • Design as semiosis: A design mechanism for place branding 

      Krasaki, Eirini ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The described design methodology combines parametric design, data analysis, algorithmic design and semiotics theory to systematically analyze urban reality. The analysis leads to a creation of a nebula of data which ...

    • Urbanism Beyond Cognition: On Design and Machine Learning 

      Bottazzi, Roberto ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      It could be argued that the introduction of new technologies always shifts the 'epistemological horizon' of the different fields they impact. New instruments allow expanding the range of parameters defining a discipline's ...

    • Digital Master Builders: Disruptive construction technologies 

      Block, Philippe ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimates that by 2050 the world's population will have increased by over 2.1 billion people (UN DESA, 2019). Providing housing and infrastructure for them would ...

    • LIQUID CITIES, a city designed by citizens 

      Boxmeer, Rolf van; Peters, Tessa ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Rezone wants to make the concept of the city more liquid.. A city where things can change, a flexible city that adapts to the desires of its inhabitants. A city designed by professionals, but also by its citizens. A city ...

    • Towards an Artificial Architecture: About Superintelligent Space 

      Morel, Philip ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      In the essay The Doctors of Tomorrow Will Be Supercomputers, published online at futurism.com, Leary (2017) says doctors will be replaced by artificial intelligence-fed supercomputers. This is in line with many theorists ...

    • Crossing the Rubicon: Tevere Cavo, an Urban Project for Rome 

      Saggio, Antonino ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      We believe that the new frontiers of Information Technology have to deal with the central role of Infrastructures in the existing city. Indeed, this new generation of infrastructures will allow the 'redirection' of the ...

    • Reconstructing identities and the idea of Global Regionalism 

      Mangera, Ali ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      We live in a time of great anxiety and change; a time of shifting allegiances where the certainties upon which we have relied have simply vanished. Our once familiar political landscape is in flux; pandemics, civil rights, ...

    • Where Are We Now? 

      Oosterhuis, Kas ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      After 16 years of leading the Hyperbody research group as professor of practice at the TU Delft, I wanted to do something completely different and looked at the Gulf region for further educational and professional activities. ...

    • Medinas: From Vernacular to Smart Sustainable Cities and Buildings 

      Fadli, Fodil ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Cities are the most prominent agile and resilient complex systems that evolved over time and space. Many of them survived for centuries, some for more than two millennia, like the Medinas of the MENA region, and they are ...

    • Al Thumama Stadium: Local and Global Architectural Reach 

      Hawamdeh, Hani Awni ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The world cup stadia have been a constant concern for the hosting countries. Many of them have become a burden on the economies of their countries, only to become white elephants after the tournaments end. Therefore, the ...