Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Volume 2013 Issue 1

In 2002, Qatar established key elements of educational reform, known as "Education for a New Era", including curriculum standards, emphasis on student -centered classrooms where students actively engage in inquiry, problem solving, critical thinking, and extensive professional development for teachers. The present study is a part of a three year QNRF funded research project which involved two major phases. The first phase Read More

“Think globally, act locally” is considered critical to winning consumer trust in Ecommerce. However, there is a paucity of research aimed at understanding the linguistic adaptation required for Ecommerce. Researchers claim that Arabs have an affinity for high context but low content. Our pilot study of 50 prominent Ecommerce websites of businesses based in Arab countries has revealed that the majority of sites which Read More

Citizenship and integration in the understanding of the contemporary Dawa المواطنة والاندماج في فقه الدعوة المعاصرة تعتبر الدعوة الإسلامية -بمفهوم نشر المبادئ وإصلاح المجتمعات- عِلما قائما بذاته. يقوم الأكاديميون المتخصصون فيه بوضع القواعد والأسس والنظريات التي تعمل على ضمان جودة الأداء الدعوي وفاعليته، واستمرارية تطويره- على قاعدة الركائز الشرعية الثابتة- بما يناسب التطورات والأحداث المعاصرة. ومن هذا المنطلق كان لزاما أن يكون للدعوة فهمها، وتحليلها، وتوصياتها، ودوافعها Read More

MEFV Gene Mutation Detection In Arabic Patients With Familial Mediterranean Fever Rowaida Taha1, Suheil Ayesh2, Abdulghani Kohilan1, Vasiliki Chini1, Marios Kambouris 1,3, Hatem El-Shanti 1,4 1Shafallah Medical Genetics Center, Doha, Qatar, 2Gene Medical Labs, Gaza, Palestinian Territory, 3Yale University School of Medicine, Genetics, New Haven CT, USA, 4University of Iowa, Pediatrics, Iowa City, IA, USA Auto-infla Read More

Background: The Qatar Whale Shark Research Project is a collaboration of government, industry and academia founded in 2010 to investigate anecdotal reports by Maersk Oil platform workers of large numbers of whale sharks seen in the Al Shaheen Oil field, Qatar. Methods: Photo-ID records have been collected from 2011 to present. Satellite-linked and acoustic tags have both been deployed, and biochemical 'biologic Read More

Scientific literacy is a key objective for the educational systems of Qatar and the Middle East. Baseline findings are presented from a large scale, intervention study of how Qatari preparatory school students learn to read scientific material in Arabic and English. Results suggest that reading difficulties for both Arabic and English relate in part to an overemphasis on sentence-level meaning and reading aloud at the expense of Read More

This work sets out to find a theoretical framework for animal welfare that harmonizes Western philosophy and ideas with Islamic philosophy and Arab culture. The objective is to provide an effective platform for the lunching of legal instruments and educational programs for the humane treatment of animals in Qatar and in the GCC. The Western theories evaluated include those of J.S. Mill and Emmanuel Kant, which place Read More

Traditional buildings in Qatar and the Gulf countries, in general, are parts and components of a series of Islamic building styles, which, indubitably have adopted some of the construction and architectural styles left by preceding civilizations. Compared to other areas of the Islamic world, there appears to be very little and scarce research about the traditional architecture of Qatar. It can be argued that Qatar's architecture is no Read More

This paper presents mobile software that supports users in experiencing the Qatari nation's literary heritage as they explore the nation of Qatar. Literary tourism is 'motivated by interest in an author, a literary creation or setting, or the literary heritage of a destination' [1]—the tourism of locations and places mentioned within a piece of literature, pertaining to the history of a place, or birthplace or place of inspiration for t Read More

The importance of family businesses has been increasingly acknowledged in the academic literature. In recent times, Qatar is witnessing a big boost in education and women in particular have shown keen interest as corroborated by the increase in the number of registration in the Universities. But even after acquiring degrees at par with the males in the family, in general, women still encounter serious challenges in Read More