Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and
international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring …

While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been
assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so …

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to
understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the 'Al …

This paper aimed to examine residents' attitudes and perceptions of the social and cultural
impacts of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and to understand the legacy dimensions of this sport …

This paper examines how the 2022 World Cup has transformed national and cultural identity
in Qatar, and residents' responses to such change. Our discussion draws on interviews with …

-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 …

Qatar, a backwater state in regional and international politics until 1995, has in recent years
pursued a high-profile foreign policy in the areas of dispute mediations, maintaining …

The failure of reform policies in areas of critical importance to Arab populations such as
health and education played a central role in igniting the Arab Awakening, yet this policy …

For the first time in an Arab country, this article examines attitudes toward public opinion
surveys and their effects on survey-taking behavior. The study uses original survey data from …

The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in
contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three …