Facing human capital challenges of the 21st century : education and labor market initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Economic and sociopolitical context for reform in the four study countries -- Qatar -- The United Arab Emirates -- Sultanate of Oman -- Lebanon -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Interviews conducted -- Appendix B: Interview protocol -- Appendix C: Qatar higher education institute scholarship programs -- Appendix D: Private institutions of higher education in Oman -- Appendix E: Recent economic reform efforts in Oman.…”
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Facing human capital challenges of the 21st century : education and labor market initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates : executive summary /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Economic and sociopolitical context for reform in the four study countries -- Human resource challenges and reform efforts in Qatar, UAE, Oman, and Lebanon -- Conclusions.…”
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Facing human capital challenges of the 21st century : education and labor market initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates : executive summary /

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Arab society : class, gender, power, and development /

Table of Contents: “…Fertility and social change in Oman : women's perspectives /…”
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Islamic reform and Arab nationalism : expanding the crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s) / by Ghazal, Amal N.

Table of Contents: “…Arabs in Zanzibar : revisiting history -- 2. The Ibadi nahda in Oman and Zanzibar : from tajdid to anticolonialism -- 3. …”
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Arab mass media : newspapers, radio, and television in Arab politics / by Rugh, William A.

Table of Contents: “…Arab information media : function and structure -- The mobilization press : Syria, Libya, the Sudan, and pre-2003 Iraq -- The mobilization press : development stages -- The loyalist press : Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Palestine -- The diverse print media : Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, and Yemen -- The "transitional" system of print media : Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Algeria -- Development of the transitional system of print media -- Offshore Pan-Arab print media -- Arab radio and television prior to 1990 -- Arab television since 1990 : structure -- Arab television since 1990 : programs.…”

The rise and fall of Arab presidents for life : with a new afterword / by Owen, Roger, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The search for sovereignty in an insecure world -- The origins of the presidential security state -- Basic components of the regimes -- Centralized state systems in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria -- Presidents as managers in Libya, Sudan, and Yemen -- Constrained presidencies in Lebanon and Iraq after Hussein -- The monarchical security stats of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman -- The politics of succession -- The question of Arab exceptionalism -- The sudden fall -- Conclusion -- Afterword.…”
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The politics of education reform in the Middle East : self and other in textbooks and curricula /

Table of Contents: “…Educational reform in the Arab world: directives, mechanisms, and challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Oman / Nemer Mansur Frayha -- Education reform in Oman: evolution of secondary school curricula / Salha Abdullah Issan -- Educational developments in Jordan from the 1950s until today: stages and characteristics / Mohammad Khalil Abbas -- Major trends of educational reform in Egypt / Iman Farag -- On the impossibility of teaching history in Lebanon: notes on a textbook controversy / Massoud Daher -- History textbooks in Egyptian schools: a tool for the representation of collective memory / Atef Botros -- Different layers of identity in Lebanese textbooks / Jonathan Kriener -- The philosophical foundations of education and the range of its implications for the content of civic education textbooks in Jordan / Mustafa Abu al-Sheikh and Yasser al-Khalailah -- Gender images in Jordanian textbooks in the subject field of social education / Naseema al-Khalidi -- Images of Europeans in Jordanian textbooks / Qasem al-Newashi -- History curricula and textbooks in Palestine: between nation building and quality education / Samira Alayan -- Bridging conflicts through history education?…”
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Ingham of Arabia : a collection of articles presented as a tribute to the career of Bruce Ingham /

Table of Contents: “…Watson -- From phonological variation to grammatical change: depalatalisation of /č/ in Salti / Bruno Herin and Enam Al-Wer -- Representation of women's language in Negev Bedouin men's texts / Roni Henkin -- An Arabic text from Ṣūr, Oman / Clive Holes -- Grammaticalizations based on the verb kāna in Arabic dialects / Otto Jastrow -- Texts in Sinai bedouin dialects / Rudolf de Jong -- Lexical notes on the dialect of Mayadin (Eastern Syria) in the late 1970s, with Jean Cantineau's fieldnotes of 1935 / Jérôme Lentin -- Modern Arabic dialectology: what are kaškaša and kaskasa, really? …”
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Iran's Relations with the Arab States of the Gulf : Common Interests over Historic Rivalry /

Table of Contents: “…Iran-GCC Relations: The Case of Oman -- 8. Conclusions.…”
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Political, economic and financial country risk : analysis of the Gulf Cooperation Council / by Ramady, M. A.

Table of Contents: “…GCC Country Risk and the " Arab Spring " -- Country Risk assessments -- Indicators of Financial Risk -- Determinants of Country economic risk -- Country political risk contents -- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia risk analysis -- State of Kuwait risk analysis -- State of Qatar risk analysis -- Kingdom of Bahrain risk analysis -- Sultanate of Oman risk analysis -- United Arab Emirates risk analysis -- GCC Composite Risk : Political risk at the core -- GCC Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Capital Flows -- GCC countries and the "Arab Spring: shielded but not immune -- Conclusions and Recommendations.…”

Education in the Arab world /

Table of Contents: “…Kuwait: Education and Development / Alanoud Al Sharekh ; 8. Oman: An Overview / Salim Saleem Al Ghanboosi ; 9. …”
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Security and bilateral issues between Iran and its Arab neighbours /

Table of Contents: “…Walsh -- Iran and Kuwait / Hamad H. Albloshi -- Iran-Oman relations since the 1970s: a mutually beneficial modus vivendi / Marc Valeri -- Iran-Qatar relations / Mehran Kamrava -- Saudi-Iranian relations: a troubled trajectory / Awadh Al-Badi -- Iran-UAE relations / Kristian Coates Ulrichsen.…”
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Routledge handbook on Arab media /

Table of Contents: “…The Moroccan press : challenges and development -- Media configuration in Morocco -- The new and social media in Morocco -- Oman. Mass media for development - the media in the Sultanate of Oman -- Palestine. …”
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A compilation of Arab constitutions and a comparative study of international human rights standards.

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Shakespeare and the Arab world /

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Arab family studies : critical reviews /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : family in the Arab region : state of scholarship / Suad Joseph -- North Africa -- Algeria / Marnia Lazreg -- Egypt / Nefissa Naguib -- Libya / Anna Baldinetti -- Morocco / Zakia Salime -- Somalia / Cawo Mohamed Abdi -- Sudan / Balghis Badri and Hwiada Abubaker -- Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef -- Eastern Arab states -- Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali -- Jordan / Seteney Shami -- Lebanon / Zeina Zaatari -- Palestine / Islah Jad -- Syria / Dawn Chatty -- The Arab Gulf -- Kuwait / Ereny Zarif and Helen Rizzo -- Saudi Arabia / May Al-Dabbagh and Ghalia Gargani -- United Arab Emirates and Oman / Rima Sabban -- Qatar and Bahrain / Rima Sabban -- Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren -- Critical issues -- Acculturation paradigms to feminist intersectionality paradigms and Arab American families / Nadine Suleiman Naber -- Migration and transnational Arab families / Paul Tabar -- Arab families and Islamic law / Judith E. …”
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Arab family studies : critical reviews /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : family in the Arab region : state of scholarship / Suad Joseph -- North Africa -- Algeria / Marnia Lazreg -- Egypt / Nefissa Naguib -- Libya / Anna Baldinetti -- Morocco / Zakia Salime -- Somalia / Cawo Mohamed Abdi -- Sudan / Balghis Badri and Hwiada Abubaker -- Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef -- Eastern Arab states -- Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali -- Jordan / Seteney Shami -- Lebanon / Zeina Zaatari -- Palestine / Islah Jad -- Syria / Dawn Chatty -- The Arab Gulf -- Kuwait / Ereny Zarif and Helen Rizzo -- Saudi Arabia / May Al-Dabbagh and Ghalia Gargani -- United Arab Emirates and Oman / Rima Sabban -- Qatar and Bahrain / Rima Sabban -- Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren -- Critical issues -- Acculturation paradigms to feminist intersectionality paradigms and Arab American families / Nadine Suleiman Naber -- Migration and transnational Arab families / Paul Tabar -- Arab families and Islamic law / Judith E. …”
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Arabic dialectology : in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Words and things / Peter Behnstedt -- The Arabic dialect of a Šawāwī community of Northern Oman / Domenyk Eades -- The dialect of the Euphrates bedouin, a fringe Mesopotamian dialect / Bruce Ingham -- Quelques données sociolinguistiques sur l'arabe parlé à damas à la fin des années mille neuf cent soixante-dix / Jérôme Lentin -- Contact phenomena. …”
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Cancer in the Arab world /

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 2 General Oncology Care in Algeria -- 3 General Oncology Care in Bahrain -- 4 General Oncology Care in Egypt -- 5 General Oncology Care in Iraq -- 6 General Oncology Care in Jordan -- 7 General Oncology Care in Kuwait -- 8 General Oncology Care in Lebanon -- 9 General Oncology Care in Libya -- 10 General Oncology Care in Mauritania -- 11 General Oncology Care in Morocco -- 12 General Oncology Care in Oman -- 13 General Oncology Care in Palestine -- 14 General Oncology Care in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- 15 General Oncology Care in Somalia -- 16 General Oncology Care in Sudan -- 17 General Oncology Care in Syria -- 18 General Oncology Care in Tunisia -- 19 General oncology care in the UAE -- 20 General Oncology Care in the Republic of Yemen -- 21 General Oncology Care in Qatar, Comoros & Djibouti -- 22 Breast Cancer in the Arab World -- 23 Colorectal Cancer in the Arab World -- 24 Palliative Care in the Arab World -- 25 Cancer Research in the Arab World -- 26 Pediatric Oncology in the Arab World -- 27 Challenges Associated with Medical Travel for Cancer Patients in the Arab World: A Systematic Review -- 28 Radiation Therapy in Arab World -- 29 Cancer Care During War and Conflict.…”
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