Month: April 2022

A Feminist Economic Analysis of COVID-19 Impact on the Palestinian Economy

UN Women Palestine This report from the UN Women Palestine examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Palestinians from a feminist perspective. Report

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Proactive Innovation in a Prolonged Conflict Setting: Facing COVID-19 in a Specialized Cancer Hospital in Palestine

Frontiers in Public Health This article studies Augusta Victoria Hospital’s (AVH)’s COVID-19-related preparedness measures in the context of the prolonged conflict in Palestine. Journal Article

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Social Stigma as an Outcome of the Cultural Repercussions toward COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Cogent Social Sciences This article explores the impact of social stigma on people infected with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia and the factors that worsen the stigma against COVID-19 patients. Journal Article

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COVID Diplomacy in the Era of Pandemic Response: The Case of United Arab Emirates

Journal of International Women’s Studies This article explores how foreign aid and COVID-19 assistance, including medical supplies and COVID-19 vaccines’ supply, have created a new source of soft power for the UAE. It presents an overview of UAE’s history of humanitarianism, conceptual and theoretical framework, methodology, factors enabling UAE’s COVID diplomacy, and the UAE’s contribution…

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Some Socio-Economic Sectors in the United Arab Emirates

Open Journal of Social Sciences This article examines the impact of COVID-19 on multiple UAE governmental and non-governmental sectors such as the aviation sector, real estate market, tourism, and education. Journal Article

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Introduction of the SARS-CoV-2 Beta Variant from Comoros into the Marseille Geographical Area

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease This article describes the epidemiology of the first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant and how this variant was imported to Marseille. The analyses highlight that, as for the case of other SARS-CoV-2 variants that have been diagnosed in Marseille, the Beta variant was imported to Marseille through travel from…

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