Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2016 Issue 1

Background The term “bioethics” emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century to refer to ethical reflection in the life sciences and in biomedical research. In general, it is used to denote three main areas of scholarship: medical ethics in health care and medical research; ethical issues at the interface of the life sciences and biomedical technology; and in its broadest sense, biological aspects of environmental ethi Read More

This paper answers some questions regarding the nexus of food and fuel price commodities. This research can be used as a baseline to make policies to stabilize food commodities and renewable fuel standards. It also provide insightful evidence that policies which are used to increase the usage of green energy could possibly increase prices of food. This is an important establishment to account for when considering renew Read More

World population has reached to 7.2 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050 (United Nations 2014). In order to feed this growing population, global food production needs to increase by 70 per cent (FAO 2009). At present, about 800 million people are living with hunger; which means one in nine is undernourished (FAO, IFAD & WFP 2015). In addition, due to increasing urbanization, changes in lifestyle and consu Read More

Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries stock market are influenced by oil prices. The goal of this paper is to compare how stock prices in the GCC are affected by shocks in oil prices and comparing the results with other stock markets in other oil exporting countries. The relationship between oil and stock prices has been analyzed extensively in the recent literature. This paper aims to shed light on the volatility spillove Read More

Cities provide places for people to live, work, learn and socialize. As urban environments, cities nowadays are typically characterized by urban sprawl in which open public spaces (1) are neglected and/or (2) social interactions are discouraged. In fact, the encouragement of social interactions among neighbors is a vital factor implementing livability among city dwellers. Recent evidence suggests that social interacti Read More

The Qatari media system is emerging rapidly to cater for the rapid socio-economic change and sustainable development the country is witnessing since its independence in December 18th, 1997. Since the accession of H.H Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa AI Thani to the reins of the country, the media have been promoting freedom, democracy and social change. Qatari media are fostering Arab and Islamic heritage and morals Read More

The costs, both monetary and psychological, associated with the injuries and deaths caused by motor vehicle collisions (MVC) are quite high across the world and as a recent call from the World Health Organization argues, very preventable (Nebehay, 2015). Qatar has not escaped this worldwide epidemic, in fact the situation may be worse than the global average, as traffic accident rates are alarming and expected to rise dramat Read More

Introduction Investigating Glassmaking in the Early Medieval World UCL-Qatar has embarked on a rigorous scientific project that aims to understand the production and trade of glass objects within the Byzantine Empire and Abbasid Caliphate—two contemporary and often rival regional powers. “Glass from Byzantium to Baghdad: Trade and Technology from the Byzantine Empire to the Abbasid Caliphate” is a QN Read More

حماية الاطفال والناشئة من اساءة استخدام الانترنيت وتقنيات الاتصال الحديثة لكل عصر وزمان أدواته وثقافته وسماته، التي لا غنى له عنها، ولعل وسائط تكنولوجيا الاتصال الحديثة كافة والإنترنت أهمها ـ باتت أهم أدوات عالمنا المعاصر، التي نستخدمها ونسخرها ونوظفها لتلبي احتياجاتنا، ومن خلالها نتمكن من أن نتواصل مع هذا العالم ونصبح جزءاً منه. وفق هذه القاعدة، علينا أن نعمل ونتعامل مع الواقع ونستوعبه ونتوافق معه، بمميزاته وعيوبه، دون أن ننحي أو نتجاهل أهم معطيات العصر وندفن رؤوسنا في الرمال إلى أن يلتهم Read More

The Arabian Peninsula has a wide variety of copper ore deposits that are distributed throughout the whole territory, with a particular concentration in the southeastern region, in what is modern day Oman. These resources, exploited since ancient times, are characterised by specific chemical and geological signatures that, when processed, give metals with distinctive compositions. The Bronze Age (ranging from c 6,000 to c 3, Read More

تتفق الدراسات الحديثة المتعلقة باللغة على اختلاف أنساقها المعرفية؛ اللسانية والإثنية والأنثروبولوجية والثقافية، على أن اللغة الإنسانية ليست كائناً فارغاً، وليست أداةً محايدة أو قوالبَ مصمتةً خاليةً من أي مواقف خاصة، بل هي مظهر من مظاهرِ الوعي تَجَسَّدَ لغةً؛ فإذا كانت الوظيفتان الأساسيتان لِلّغة هما التمثيل والتواصل فإن التحيّزات تسري فيهما معاً، فلا يستقيم تمثيل العالم من دون موقفٍ منه، أو وجهة نظر، أو زاوية رؤية، وهذه كلها بوابات مُشرعة للهويّات _ على أساس أن جوهر الهوية وجودُ موقفٍ متميّز من العالم. يُ Read More

The mixed methods research study Understanding College Community: Fostering Female Student Success at the Canadian Technical College in Qatar applied the critical feminist paradigm to investigate whether female students who were engaged in the college community, through participation in co-curricular activities, were more likely to achieve academic success and to have a positive perception of their college e Read More

The Islamic garden was the earthly image of Paradise. The pre-Islamic Persian gardens derived the garden and tried to recreate the world within an enclosed space. After the conquest of Persia by the Arabs in the 7th century, not only was the Persian garden itself influenced by Islam philosophy, but this erudite form of garden spread throughout the Islamic world. It became the fabled Moorish gardens in Southern Spain the Gener Read More

مقاربة جديدة لتعليم اللغة العربية تعليم النحو نموذجا إعداد:د منيرة القنوني أستاذ مساعد جامعة قطر تمهيد يعاني الكثير من التلاميذ والطلبة صعوبات كبيرة في مستوى تعلّم واكتساب اللغة العربية ، ونعتقد أن هذا المشكل له الكثير من الأسباب لكن أسبابه الرئيسية تعليمية بحتة ترتبط في اعتقادنا بضعف برامج تعليم اللغة العربية في الوطن العربي عامة. علوم اللسان قريبة من العلوم الطبيعيّة إلا أنها تختلف عنها اختلافا جوهريا ، علوم الطبيعة نشاط حضاري يسعى لبناء تصور عن حقيقة الكون المحيط بنا ، علم اللغة نشاط حضا Read More

1. Introduction Punctuation can be defined as the use of spacing and conventional signs to help the understanding of the handwritten and printed texts. Punctuation marks are used to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences and they are also used to structure and organize the text. The punctuation rules vary with language and register. Some punctuation aspects of are stylistic choices. For language such Arabic, the punc Read More

This is a story of the National Flag of the State of Qatar. This Flag is white pierced with nine serrated points penetrating to the light Maroon portion. The origin of the colour of this Flag dates back to the Bronze Age of 3rd millennium BC. Archeologists found that the prehistoric settlers established a factory on Jezirat bin Ghannam (an island at the Bay of Al Khor) to produce purple red dyes from species of sea snails. This dye was im Read More

This paper will analyze the contributions of transnational universities in Gulf to make Gulf cities transnational meeting places between national and professional cultures for creating innovative, knowledge-based economies and for building strategic knowledge relations with existing Western partners and new emerging market partners (the case of China). The paper will have special emphasis on Doha and compare with other Read More

- الملخلص بالعربية: كثيرة هي الدراسات النقدية والبحوث الأكاديمية التي اشتغلت بقراءة وتحليل ومقاربة ما اصطلح على تسميته بالشعر الحديث، ولابد من الإشارة إلى أن الشعر الحديث هو كل نص شعري كتب برؤية جديدة معتمداً على تقنية فنية متفردة لم يسبق إليها من قبل؛ أي لم تكن مألوفة في الأوساط الشعرية، أو تم التميز والفرادة من خلالها نتيجة استخدامها بطريقة مختلفة، فالقصيدة الحديثة هي قصيدة ابتدعت بعيداً عن التقليد والاقتداء بالنمط الجاهز والاتباع لقانون الجماعة السائد، وكان ذلك الابتداع في كافة الأص Read More

In recent years, vision based solutions have shown improvement in performance for scenes containing single or few persons for the tasks of person detection, tracking, and action recognition. Dense crowd analysis is the next step which actually helps to solve more useful real word problems. It is crucial for surveillance, space and infrastructure management of large events such as political, religious, social, and sports gatherings. Read More

This study explores possible determinants of blogging in the Arab world. In particular, it tests the stereotype that political motives are strongly behind blogging among survey respondents in six Arab countries. Human rights activists, scholars, and others have often speculated about the role the Internet plays in the political mobilization of Arab populations in recent years and, at the same time, how political disaffection may d Read More

A growing phenomenon, which is gaining attention worldwide, is the rapid diffusion of themed-sport areas as legacies of mega-sporting events. An example of it is offered by the city of Doha. On the occasion of 2006 Asian Games, the capital of Qatar faced some significant urban transformations. The principal legacy left after staging the event is the implementation of the Aspire Zone, Doha's Sports City. Is this leg Read More

In 2013, The Central Bank of Libya declared that all Libyan banking institutions must become ‘sharia compliant’ by 2015. Thus, Central Bank of Libya (2013) has formally introduce the Islamic banking and finance model to be compulsory for the first time. Indeed, many Libyan banking institutions especially public banks will go through different complex organizational change processes in order to be able to act the rules Read More

نحاول في هذا البحث استعراض آراء الباحثين حول علم التأريخ لدى المسلمين، هل كان لدى المسلمين علم تأريخ خاص بهم؟ ونذكر ثلاثة آراء رئيسة تتناول هذا الموضوع. الرأي الأول: يرى أصحاب هذا الرأي أن ابن خلدون هو المؤسس الأول لعلم التأريخ، بتلك النظرة الغربية الحديثة لابن خلدون التي تجعل منه عالما غربيا بامتياز، وتتناسىى كونه عربيا مسلما حضارة وثقافة، يرى هؤلاء العلماء أن ما جاء في المقدمة هو نتاج تميز شخصي حاز عليه ابن خلدون، ومن ثم فهو ليس له امتداد تاريخي في الحضارة الإسلامية، وإنما هو كخضراء Read More

The massive influx of foreign residents and workforce led to the exacerbation of the demographic imbalance in the GCC countries. As the rise of expatriate population may contribute to the economic growth, it may have an enormous impact on the regional social landscape. Therefore, the governments of the GCC States are trying to shape the process of national identity construction and attempt to rediscover their sense of Read More

Abstract for Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference 2016 Qatari Women's Engagement in Politics By: Noor Khalifa Al-Tamaimi For the past year and a half, I have been a student researcher on the QNRF UREP grant, “Qatari Women: Engagement and Empowerment” (UREP 15-035-5-013). The grant as a whole focused on understanding the drivers and the obstacles of women's empowerment in Qatar. We focused our Read More

Little research has been done to trace back and document the role of women artists from the Arabian Gulf countries in the local and international art scene. This could be justified due to the fact that women in the recent past were not accepted in public spheres. However, even after the emergence of modernism in most of the Gulf countries, the cultural sector remains somehow gendered where women artists have to se Read More

Abstract Superficial characteristics like physical features, race, origin and nationality have proven in the past to escalate to violent conflicts, reasons very from relativeness to belonging. Although the issue of those born to Qatari mothers is unlikely to escalate to a conflict anytime soon, it is still a rising heath concern, especially in terms of the conflicting social identity, which have proven to cause anxiety to many individuals. Unifyi Read More