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Mobility Competitiveness and Security: Expatriate Perspectives from Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Introduction: In order to create and sustain a competitive, knowledge-based economy, Qatar must be able to continually attract, retain and integrate expatriate workers. As described in the Qatar National Development Strategy ... -
Donating Time or Money? The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
( Springer Netherlands , 2018 , Article)Few studies have examined the role of religiosity and social capital on civic engagement in the context of a Muslim country. In this paper, we explore the impact of religiosity and social capital on charitable donations ... -
Migration Policies across the GCC: Challenges in Reforming the Kafala
( Gulf Research Center Cambridge , 2018 , Book chapter)Much of the debate over immigration policy in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) revolves around the kafala, or sponsorship system. In ... -
Attitudes Toward the Coaching Profession: Evidence from a Nation-Wide Study in Qatar
( Human Kinetics , 2018 , Article)The present study aimed to develop a scale for measuring Qataris’ attitudes toward coaching and their intentions towards this profession. The survey target population included Qataris who were 18 years or older and who ... -
Randomization in small sample surveys with the Halton sequence
( 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 ... -
Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East
( Cambridge University Press (CUP) , 2018 , Book Review)its hard-won gains from Raqqa to Mosul, victory for the United States and its allies in this clash of ideas and values in the deserts of the Middle East is far from assured” (319) -
MOOCs and International Capacity Building in a UN Framework: Potential and Challenges
( Springer, Cham , 2018 , Book chapter)This chapter highlights the high potential and challenges involved with developing Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) for capacity building and climate-friendly technology transfer within the United Nations (UN) system. ... -
Competence and Electability: Exploring the Limitations on Female Candidates in Qatar
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)Attitudes about women’s expertise can play a role in limiting their access to influential public spaces, including elected government positions. In the Arab Gulf, women remain underrepresented in electoral politics. This ... -
Determinants of College and University Choice for High-School Students in Qatar
( Sciedu Press , 2018 , Article)Drawing on existing research, this paper investigates various predictors of high school students’ college and university choice decisions in Qatar. Based on a 2015 survey of 1,427 participants, this study utilized exploratory ... -
Enhancing the Adoption of E-Government Systems through Open Government and Open Government Data (OGD) Initiatives in Qatar
( IISTE , 2018 , Article)The present study aimed to analyze the status of e-government in developing countries, and particularly at Qatar. It also aimed to analyze the status of Open Government Data (OGD) in Qatar in order to identify the main ... -
High-skilled migration and the attractiveness of cities.
( Oxford University Press , 2018 , Book chapter)Book Description: Political and scientific debates on migration policies have mostly focused on governments' efforts to control or reduce low-skilled, asylum, and irregular migration or to encourage the return migration ... -
Towards Sustainable Food System in Qatar: Household Food Waste and Consumption Behavior
( Science and Education Publishing , 2018 , Article)It has been proofed that food wastage can be recognized at all level of food life cycle i.e. harvesting, manufacturing, distributing however, the largest contribution to food waste is the consumption stage by household. ... -
Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East: Lessons from Qatar and the Arabian Gulf Region in Mobile Media Content Innovation
( Routledge , 2018 , Book)Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East identifies trends in mobile media use in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and, more broadly, explores their impact on the nature of digital journalism. Mobility has long been an ... -
Examining the cross-cultural attitudes of Qataris and expatriates in Qatar, the host country of 2022 World Cup
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2018 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how residents in Qatar, the host country of the 2022 World Cup, interact, socialize and acculturate in order to create a more harmonic society, a critical factor for the ... -
What Money Can’t Buy: Wealth, Inequality, and Economic Satisfaction in the Rentier State
( SAGE Publications , 2018 , Article)How do perceived inequalities in allocation impact citizen satisfaction with state-distributed benefits in rentier societies? Resource-rich rentier regimes are widely theorized to maintain the economic and political ... -
Assessing the factor structure and measurement invariance of the eating attitude test (EAT-26) across language and BMI in young Arab women
( BioMed Central , 2018 , Article)Background: The objective of the study was to determine the factorial structure and test the measurement invariance of the EAT-26 in a large probability sample of young female university students in Qatar (n = 2692), a ... -
Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar
( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2018 , Article)Most studies on the mobility of highly skilled migrants have been examined with a framework of global talent mobility and under conditions of neoliberal governance and economic globalization. In this study we challenge the ... -
Work-Life -Balance in Qatar: Implementing Tows Analysis as a Variant of the Classic Strategic Tool, SWOT
( West East Institute Journals , 2018 , Article)Purpose The overall goal of this paper is to explore via Gap and TOWS analysis if organizations are offering innovative benefits from the perspective of married employees that make being a working dad or mom easier ... -
Testing Western Media Icons Influence on Arab Women’s Body Size and Shape Ideals: An Experimental Approach
( MDPI , 2018 , Article)Western media globalization is implicated in the spread of the thin body ideal to traditional societies. Qatar—a small conservative Middle-Eastern country—has recently witnessed rapid Westernization, but the influence ... -
"Toxic pleasures”: A study of eating out behavior in Arab female university students and its associations with psychological distress and disordered eating
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)University years are a critical period in which young people establish independence and adopt lasting health behaviors. The aim of this study was to estimate the associations between eating out, psychological distress, ...