Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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Qatar

Gig/Platform Economy: The Next Big Opportunity for Takaful?

Submitted by Umar Farooq Patel on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 22:48

The World Bank recently released “The Global Findex Database 2021: Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of Covid-19” which shows that 76 percent of adults globally have access to an account with a bank or a regulated financial institution. The rise in the past decade has been the fastest ever with over a 50 percent jump in the population with access to banking accounts and this was largely possible due to rapid advances in technology and digital infrastructure for financial services.

Humanizing innovation indicators methodology, based on the Islamic system of objectives

Submitted by lfatajo on Sat, 01/29/2022 - 00:10
Governments traditionally rely on innovation indicators to measure, evaluate, and assess the efficiency and the effectiveness of innovation policies. Innovation indicators are interpreted and used in policy design. The emergence of innovation systems and the -associated literature have largely focused on economic activities and hence the designs of economic policies. The predominant trend has therefore been to develop for economic purposes.

Qatar's mediation in the Lebanese conflict of 2008 : toward a cross-cultural model of third party diplomacy in conflict resolution

Submitted by lfatajo on Sat, 01/29/2022 - 00:05
This thesis examines Qatar's mediation efforts in the Lebanese crisis of 2008 and how it succeeded in resolving the conflict. It explores the possibility of the emergence of a cross-cultural mediation model that may have relevant application to other

The role of foreign direct investment in economic development and diversification in Qatar with special focus of the Non-Hydrocarbon Sector

Submitted by lfatajo on Thu, 01/27/2022 - 01:24
This thesis investigates the impact of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in promoting development and diversification in the economy with a special focus on the non-hydrocarbon sector in Qatar from 1990-2011. The thesis addresses the question of whether or not there is a positive role for FDI to contribute toward the economic development and diversification goals of the non-hydrocarbon sector in Qatar.

Creating public value :the case of Robotic Camel Jockeys in Qatar

Submitted by lfatajo on Tue, 01/25/2022 - 01:59
The aim of the study was to explore the concept of public value and its relationship to the Islamic concept of maslahah ammah. The study considered how the concept of public value and maslahah ammah can be used to understand the shift from the use of child- jockeys to robot jockeys in camel racing sports in Qatar. It argued that the literature on public value offers a rich framework that can integrate the Islamic concept of maslahah ammah and be used to study various cases in

Vocational education and training (VET) in Qatar interrogating a span of domestic challenges

Submitted by lfatajo on Wed, 01/19/2022 - 15:50
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the most pressing and critical challenges that affect the effectiveness of the VET sector in Qatar in the scope of national development strategies. What signifies this paper is the exploration of almost an absent field of study, which is rarely studied on a national or even regional level. The environmental forces and factors affecting the current educational policy, therefore, have been explored to highlight specific policy-implementation gabs as well as other procedural errors.

Place attachment of contemporary and modern districts in Cairo : the cases of Abbasiyah, Khedival Downtown, Maadi and Heliopolis 

Submitted by lfatajo on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 22:43
Place Attachment is a human phenomenal common feelings and behavioral activity that accumulates with first experiences made by people in their places by either residing or visiting it. Such feelings gradually transferred with certain degree of acceptance to the place characteristics into behavioral actions of commitment to places. Those commitments are manifested in powerful bonds to their places especially by residents whom spent more comfortable time and communed with others in it in a socially, emotionally and functionally.

The souk and society in Qatar cohabitating heritage

Submitted by lfatajo on Wed, 01/12/2022 - 17:33
His highness the Aga Khan boldly emphasized in a speech published in 1978 the accelerating loss of our cultural identity while acknowledging the valuable lessons extracted from the past. The speech reinforces the important role of cherishing the past accomplishments, pride, values, ethics and unity. These were the classification of previous generation.

Dialogue of the Abrahamic Religions: A Comparative Study Between The Perspectives of Ismail R. Al-Faruqi (1921-1986) And Leonard J. Swidler (1929)

Submitted by lfatajo on Wed, 01/12/2022 - 16:34

Dialogue is a means of communication to render knowledge and learn from each other with the aim of reaching an amicable agreement. Interreligious dialogue is considered an imperative for Muslims as clearly stated in the Quran (3:64). The Quran encourages Muslims to discuss with people of scripture, i.e. the followers of the Abrahamic religions. The history of

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