• THIRD-PARTY PRESENCE EFFECT WITH PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING 

      DIOP, ABDOULAYE; LE, KIEN T.; TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL ( Oxford University Press , 2015 , Article)
      This paper attempts to measure the effect of third-party presence during the interview on sensitive questions about women’s empowerment in Morocco, a country with Muslim culture and traditions. Data are from the 2003 ...
    • دراسة التناغم الاجتماعي 

      أنصاري، ماجد; ترنج لي، كيين; سبيعي، محمد حسن; ديوب، عبد الله ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2015 , Other)
      يعرض هذا الملخص النتائج الرئيسية لمسح التناغم الاجتماعي الذي نفذه معهد البحوث الاجتماعية والاقتصادية المسحية بجامعة قطرأجريت مقابلات هذا المسح مع عينة كبيرة وممثلة للمواطنين القطريين، وقد تم تصمم المسح وتطبيق وفق أعلى ...
    • The Effect of Citizenship status on Satisfaction with Healthcare Services: Implications for Policymaking in Qatar 

      Khaled, Salma; Abdul Rahim, Hanan (2015 , Presentation)
      Objectives Using data collected before the roll out of the Qatar National Health Insurance Scheme, this study explores the role of citizenship as a predictor of general satisfaction with healthcare services and its potential ...
    • No (Gulf) Country for Syrian Refugees 

      Ewers, Michael; Gengler, Justin ( The Council on Foreign Relations , 2015 , Article)
      A common reaction to the ongoing migrant crisis has been to blame Europe: how can the wealthy nations of western Europe allow such a tragedy? More recently, however, media and popular scrutiny have turned back toward the ...
    • Annual Omnibus Survey: A survey of life in Qatar 2014 

      Diop, Abdoulaye; Gengler, Justin John; Khan, Mohammad N.; Traugott, Michael; Elawad, Elmogiera Fadlallh; ... more authors ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2015 , Other)
      This Executive Summary presents the highlights of the 2014 Omnibus survey, the fourth in a series of Omnibus surveys since 2010. The surveys were carried out by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) ...
    • 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 ...
    • Business legacy planning for mega events: The case of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar 

      Kaplanidou, Kiki; Al Emadi, Ahmed; Sagas, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye; Fritz, Gerald ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)
      This study aimed to explore the processes of business networking which lays the foundation for business legacy outcomes initiated by the award of a mega event in a region. Building on the work of Spilling (1996) on mega ...
    • The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women’s Role Conflict in Qatar 

      James-Hawkins, Laurie; Qutteina, Yara; Yount, Kathryn M. ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)
      Social norms in patriarchal countries in the Middle East are changing at differing rates. In Qatar, expectations about education have shifted, and women’s participation in higher education is normative. However, women’s ...
    • Expatriate labour markets in rapidly globalising cities: reproducing the migrant division of labour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai 

      Ewers, Michael C.; Dicce, Ryan ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2016 , Article)
      This paper studies the processes through which skilled international workers are differentially attracted to and incorporated in the rapidly globalising cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, thereby reproducing the migrant ...
    • The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Qatari Human Rights Perspective 

      Avilés, María del Carmen Barranco; Serra, María Laura; Khadri, Sabah; Gómez, Patricia Cuenca; Roig, Rafael de Asís; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      For a long time disability was considered a question of social development, outside the responsibilities of official human rights institutions. Over the last three decades this approach has evolved, and disability is now ...
    • Meanings of Women's Agency: Improving Measurement in Context 

      Qutteina, Yara; James-Hawkins, Laurie; Al-Khelaifi, Buthaina A.; Yount, Kathryn M. ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Decades of research has been conducted to understand the processes that under gird women's empowerment and one of its core components-women's agency. However, few inroads have been made into the study of how these processes ...
    • Implementing the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Qatar: From charity to human rights 

      Rodríguez del Pozo, Pablo; Barranco-Avilés, María del Carmen; Al Ali, Khalid; de Asís-Roig, Rafael ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Article)
      A historically marginalized and overlooked segment of the general population worldwide, persons with disabilities have long struggled with discrimination, inequality and even maltreatment. They have often been treated as ...
    • Shedding Light on the Roots of Dissatisfaction with Health Care Services in the State of Qatar: An Exploratory Study 

      Nasrallah, Catherine; Qutteina, Yara; Khaled, Salma Mawfek ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Introduction: Dissatisfaction with health care performance is an important source of information about health care reforms as perceived by the public as it is associated with negative beliefs about health system. Previous ...
    • Criminalizing Domestic Violence in Qatar: A Case Study of Student Activism 

      Qureshi, Tazeen; Al Rumaihi, Shabeb; Al Thani, Hessa; Al Ahbaby, Fatma; Ashimi, Suad; ... more authors ( 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. ...
    • Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the GCC 

      Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien Trung; Ewers, Michael C. ( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)
      Since Qatar was awarded the hosting of the 2022 World Cup, a great deal of media attention has focused on the conditions of the foreign workers responsible for creating and maintaining the infrastructure of the modern Gulf ...
    • Parenting Young Arab Children: Psychometric Properties of an Adapted Arabic Brief Version of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire 

      Badahdah, Abdallah; Le, Kien Trung ( Springer , 2016 , Article)
      Research has shown a connection between negative parenting practices and child conduct problems. One of the most commonly used measures to assess parenting practices is the Alabama parenting questionnaire (APQ). The current ...
    • International knowledge mobility and urban development in rapidly globalizing areas: building global hubs for talent in Dubai and Abu Dhabi 

      Ewers, Michael ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2016 , Article)
      This paper examines the processes through which the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai attract and integrate knowledge workers into their labor markets. It focuses on how the UAE has acquired the ...
    • Legacy perceptions among Qatari nationals: What legacies will the 2022 World Cup bring? 

      Kaplanidou, Kyriaki; Al Emadi, Ahmed; Diop, Abdoulaye; Sagas, Michael; Ahmed Elmaghraby, Engi ( European Association for Sport Management conference , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Qatar has been awarded to host the 2022 World Cup. For the Middle East this event can bring a number of changes in the region for sport and urban development. Given that the event was awarded very early in Qatar (2010) by ...
    • Qatar World Cup 2022: Awareness of the event and its impact on destination and country character perceptions in the US tourism market 

      Kaplanidou, Kyriaki; Al-Emadi, Ahmed; Triantafyllidis, Stavros; Sagas, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye ( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2016 , Article)
      This study examined how awareness levels of hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar changed perceptions of Qatar's destination image, country character, and neighboring destinations' images. Data were collected through Amazon ...
    • 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 ...