Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup
ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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Prevalence and risk factors of post-traumatic stress disorder among 2023 earthquake survivors in Syria and Turkey: A multinational cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Albuaini S +5 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
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<i>Anapleus pescheli</i>, a new endogean species from Italy and Greece with the key to Western Palaearctic species (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Dendrophilinae, Anapleini). [PDF]
Lackner T.
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Abstract Background The increasing diversity of blood donor populations has created new challenges for transfusion services worldwide. The identification of donors lacking relevant high‐prevalence antigens is becoming increasingly important to ensure compatible blood products for alloimmunized patients and to support the development of rare donor ...
Sarah Petermann +7 more
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Cancer care in conflict-affected regions: a scoping review of service delivery challenges, healthcare system adaptations, and policy implications. [PDF]
Al-Qaisi O +7 more
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ABSTRACT Using a state‐of‐the‐art structural gravity model, we investigate the impact of various (post‐)colonial cocoa trading arrangements on the cocoa trade between developing cocoa producer countries and rich industrial cocoa consumer nations in the time period 1951–1999. We find that in particular the trading arrangements of the European (Economic)
John Brown +2 more
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Interventions to promote early child development in the Middle East and North Africa Arab countries: protocol for a scoping review. [PDF]
Charafeddine L +9 more
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on Exports to China
ABSTRACT This study investigates the direct effect of a country's participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on that country's exports to China, as well as the indirect effect of such participation on other countries' exports to China. Using panel data covering 187 countries from 2006 to 2023, we employ an event study approach, a staggered
Haonan Li, Yasuyuki Todo
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Lifestyle habits, gender differences, and their association with sleep and mental health among Syrian medical residents. [PDF]
Alameer MB +9 more
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