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“To Cross into a War Should be Difficult”

open access: yesIperstoria, 2022
Set a few years after the start of the Syrian civil war, Elliot Ackerman’s novel Dark at the Crossing (2017) offers a close look at the life along the border between Turkey and Syria while following the protagonist’s quest for purpose and his paradoxical
Angelo Arminio
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

open access: yesIrrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
wiley   +1 more source

Miscalculation in Proxy War: The United States and Russia in Syrian Civil War from the Neoclassical Realist Perspective

open access: yesGazi Akademik Bakış, 2020
This article aims to puzzle why the leading military power of the world, namely the United States, was pushed back from the negotiating table in the Syrian Civil War, and conversely, how and why the world’s declining power, namely Russia, became the sole
Osman ŞEN, Mehmet ŞAHİN
doaj  

Syrian Civil War’s effects on Turkish school children: prevalence and predictors of psychopathology

open access: yesPsychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2019
Objectives: The Syrian Civil War forced millions into asylum in neighbouring countries. Refugees/asylum seekers have elevated risk for psychopathology with the most important being post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Sinem Tabur   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Horizontal inequality and multi-sectarian societies

open access: yesRevista Conjuntura Austral, 2022
After the beginning of the Arab Spring and the conflict in Syria, researchers from all over the world are trying to understand the reasons that led to the civil war in that country.
Danny Zahreddine   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional Fragility and E‐Business Adoption: A Study of SMEs in a Conflict‐Affected Economy

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines e‐business adoption among SMEs in Yemen, a conflict‐affected and institutionally fragile economy. Drawing on a mixed‐methods design, it combines Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS‐SEM) with qualitative interviews to analyse how war and firm size moderate the effects of key adoption drivers and barriers.
Ahmed Abdullah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Syrian conflict: a case study of the challenges and acute need for medical humanitarian operations for women and children internally displaced persons

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2018
Background After 7 years of increasing conflict and violence, the Syrian civil war now constitutes the largest displacement crisis in the world, with more than 6 million people who have been internally displaced.
Rahma Aburas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach to Othering: Depiction of the Syrian Refugee Experience in Turkish Children’s Literature

open access: yes[sic], 2021
This paper is a critical examination of discursive strategies of othering in three refugee-focused books in Turkish children’s literature written after the onset of Syrian civil war.
Neslihan Kansu Yetkiner
doaj   +1 more source

Are DSM‐5 and ICD‐11 posttraumatic stress disorder measures assessing the same construct? Evidence from a Rasch‐based analysis

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined whether DSM‐5 and ICD‐11 self‐report operationalizations of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are psychometrically equivalent. Using Rasch modeling, we compared the psychometric properties and convergent validity of the PTSD Checklist for DSM‐5 (PCL‐5) and the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in a sample of 483 ...
Emre Han Alpay
wiley   +1 more source

What is there to learn from all this…chaos: a Chaotic Reading of Zeyn Joukhader’s The Map of Salt and Star (2018) [PDF]

open access: yesAkofena
: Drawing on the core tenets of chaos literary theory, this paper offers a chaotic reading of Zeyn Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars (2018). Set against the backdrop of Syria’s chaotic civil war of 2011, the paper aims to explore the novel's ...
Meriem BOUGHERIRA & Hana BOUGHERIRA
doaj   +1 more source

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