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Local rooting and creativity within the fashion industry in Beirut
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that make Beirut a fashion hub by studying the characteristics of creativity and the role of the different stakeholders in setting an environment that encourages ...
التجسير المعرفي: الرؤية، المنطلقات والمسارات
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دار نشر جامعة قطر
, 2019 , Article)
سيطر التنظيم الأكاديمي التخصصي على إنتاج المعرفة لفترات طويلة خلال القرن العشرين، بحيث بدا وكأن كل مجتمع تخصصي قد استقر داخل الأطر الفكرية والمؤسسية التي تعرف تخصصه، باحثًا عن وناشرًا لمعرفة أكثر دقة وتفصيلًا حول مجال محدد ...
Treading with caution: China's multidimensional interventions in the Gulf Region
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Cambridge University Press
, 2019 , Article)
This article demonstrates the growing adaptability of Chinese foreign policy to Gulf states’ expectations around issues that implicate them directly or are relevant (such as relations with the US, and the wars in Yemen and ...
The new cultural turn in urban development for the gulf state: Creativity, place promotion, and identity: Doha as a case study
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Urban theorists and policy makers have begun to re-evaluate the significance of integrating culture into urban development strategies. Within the present growing global interurban competition, a new approach to urban ...
Moments and memories: football and state narratives in Algeria
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
A Nation’s memory is selective and sheds light only on a selection of narratives of memory and process of memorizing that serves a nation’s interests. At the core of the Algerian state formation, the question of memory and ...
Tunisia’s “civic parallelism”: Lessons for Arab democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter suggests that knowledge must be situated at the centre of explorations of Arab democratization, primarily through the inclusion of subaltern voices. To demonstrate this line of argument, the chapter addresses ...
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
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Taylor & Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ...
Entrepreneurship, ICT and innovation: State of qatar transformation to a knowledge-based economy
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Oil and natural gas revenues still form the main part of national income and government revenues in Qatar. However, since, 1995, Qatar's economy is undergoing a critical transformation, shifting from a high dependence on ...