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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world mass protests in
Beck, Martin, Hüser, Simone
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An Intelligent Feature Engineering‐Driven Hybrid Framework for Adversarial Domain Name System Tunneling Detection

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel framework that enhances the reliability of DNS traffic monitoring using a hybrid long short‐term memory‐deep neural network (LSMT‐DNN) architecture, enabling robust detection of adversarial DNS tunneling. The proposed framework leverages feature extraction from DNS traffic patterns, including domain request sequences, query ...
Ahmad Almadhor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Arab Spring: A Quantitative Analysis

open access: yesArab Studies Quarterly, 2014
The quantitative analysis of the Arab Spring events is a rather difficult task. Respective difficulties are related to the variety of factors affecting social instability, and to individual peculiarities of historical, cultural, socio-economic, and ...
Andrey V. Korotayev   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Literature on the Arab Spring

open access: yesPerspectives on Terrorism, 2013
This bibliography contains journal articles, book chapters, books, edited volumes, theses, grey literature, bibliographies and other resources on the Arab Spring/Awakening/Uprisings.
Judith Tinnes
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Financial Development and Economic Growth under Uprisings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper aims to examine the causal impact of the Arab Spring and government institutions on the finance-growth nexus. The empirical analysis is implemented for extensive firm-level panel data combined with national data covering macroeconomic and ...
Arayssi, Mahmoud, Fakih, Ali
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Evaluating the African arid corridor hypothesis: A meta‐analysis including the phylogenetic and biogeographical history of Sesamothamnus

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise We examined the African arid corridor (AAC) disjunction pattern of vascular plants between northeastern and southwestern Africa in the context of geological and climatic events since the late Miocene. We developed a phylogenetic and biogeographical framework for the arid‐adapted genus Sesamothamnus (Pedaliaceae), a classic example of ...
John G. Zaborsky   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sufism, Politics, and the Arab Spring

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2012
This paper examines the role of Sufi individuals and groups in the politics of the Middle East and North Africa during and following the Arab Spring. While some have suggested that Sufis are distant from politics, this paper looks at events in Syria and ...
Fait Muedini
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship between Remittances and Macroeconomic Variables in Times of Political and Social Upheaval: Evidence from Tunisia's Arab Spring

open access: yes, 2017
If Tunisia was hailed as a success story with its high rankings on economic, educational, and other indicators compared to other Arab countries, the 2011 popular uprisings demonstrate the need for political reforms but also major economic reforms.
Bouoiyour, Jamal   +2 more
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Hezbollah: enter the Arab Summer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This week Meor Alif examines Hezbollah and a Middle East changed by the Arab Spring. From its modest beginnings, Hezbollah has emerged as an eminent force in the region bolstered by Iran but this alliance faces a number of challenges. Hezbollah and Iran,
Alif, Meor
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