Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2014 Issue 1

In recent years, the growth of economics and development of technology in the banking and finance sectors have led to a significant increase in the use of financial instruments (Grbhradt et al., 2004). Accordingly, the accounting regulators particularly standard setters must take these developments into considerations and issue new or emend the existing standards to adopt with this changing environment. However, in Read More

Aftercare is considered part of the social welfare programs destined to provide assistance to specific social groups in need such as prison inmates, substance abusers, deviant juveniles and people with disabilities. This could take the form of guidance, counseling and material and/or moral support. Aftercare programs are generally destined to help restore family relationships and repairing bridges with the community in gen Read More

Background & Objectives Anthropologist describe Asylum in various societies across space and time. My approach to evaluate Asylum in the medieval Islamic World takes advantage of this “universalim of protection”. The proposed presentation will take its starting point with an evaluation of protection in late antiquity and the period of the Early Middle Ages to discuss the preconditions of the cultural and religious encounter Read More

Heritage and tourism have become during the last two decades dynamic areas of development in the world. The idea of heritage is crucial to the critical decision-making process as to how irreplaceable resources are to be utilized by people of the present or conserved for future generations in a fast changing world. In view of the importance of ‘heritage’ to the development of a tourist destination the emphasis on developing ap Read More

Background and Objectives This paper considers how the globalized discourse of genetic risk is shaped, informed and taken up in local moral worlds in Qatar. Using the theoretical and methodological approach of medical anthropology, the research explores the way in which Qataris negotiate notions of health, illness and risk: particularly genetic risk. It looks at the theories of causation that are considered for illness and disabilit Read More

Background Despite the progress made over the past several decades in developing educational systems in Qatar and in the GCC countries as a whole, results in terms of quality of learning outcomes are low when compared to other countries at similar income levels. Indeed, data generated by international comparative surveys such as PISA (2009), PIRLS and TIMSS (2011), and the UNESCO EFA GMR 2012 and IBE World Data Read More

Design and visualization are two inseparable disciplines. All design needs to be analyzed and communicated through visual forms. High tech has brought dramatic changes to how we analyze design. However, this does not render low tech an irrelevant method. The goal of this research is (1) to understand the advantages and limitations of Immersive projection and (2) to understand how high tech and low tech methods can c Read More

التعليم بوجه عام يؤدي إلى تغيير في عقول الأفراد وفي تصرفاتهم وفي نوعية حياتهم لهذا لا يمكن تجاهل أهمية الدور الذي تقوم به التربية على حقوق الانسان في السياق العام لإنجاز هذه الحقوق. ولا يمكن لحماية حقوق الانسان أن تكون إلا بعد معرفتها ومعرفة الوسائل الكفيلة بضمان احترامها. إن الانجاز الملحوظ الذي حققه جهد المجتمع الدولي في مجال حقوق الانسان على الصعيدين القانوني والمؤسساتي، لم يرافقه تحول حقيقي وشامل في الواقع، إذ بقيت الاوضاع الفعلية للأفراد والجماعات بعيدة عن المثل العليا المعلنة في ا Read More

Migrants constitute nearly half of the population of the six Gulf Corporation Council states (GCC). In some of these states, including Qatar, this ratio is even higher. The small local population could not meet the increasing demand for workforce with the booming development of the GCC after the discovery of oil. With the advent of the Gulf-oil economy in the 1950s, GCC states largely sought to import labor from neighboring Arab s Read More