Geojournal of Tourism and Geosites This article evaluates the policies taken by Jordanian tourism sector before and after COVID-19 as well as in the context of the Arab spring protests. Journal Article
Read MoremedRxiv This working paper investigates the differential risk of healthcare workers versus the general population during different crises such as the Ebola outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the civil war in Syria. Working Paper
Read MoreHeliyon This article delves into the impact of volatile oil prices, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic on food supply’s global import and export dynamics. Journal Article
Read MoreJurnal Multidisiplin Madani This article aims to determine how international law has affected the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreAgriculture & Food Security This article studies the impact of COVID-19 on food security and identifies the more affected dimensions, including availability, access, utilization, and stability during the pandemic in MENA countries. Journal Article
Read MoreAmerican Political Science Review This article studies the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on ISIS activity in Iraq and argues that these measures are likely to reduce non-state actor violence, especially in urban and non-base areas by depleting actors’ resources, reducing the number of high-value civilian targets, and making it logistically more difficult to conduct…
Read MoreFrontiers in Public Health This article aims to determine VH (vaccine hesitancy) to COVID-19 vaccination in five conflict zones: Somalia, Yemen, Palestine, Syria, and Afghanistan. Journal Article
Read MoreModern Diplomacy This article explores the Sino-American race to vaccinate the MENA region in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in efforts to increase the two powers’ influence in the region under the Chinese Belt & Road Initiative and the Trump and Biden US administrations. Article
Read MoreGlobal Mental Health This article explores how the global evidence on psychosocial interventions for female survivors of conflict-related sexual violence applies to the context of the female Yazidi population in Iraq during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors also explore the impact of COVID-19 on the effectiveness of the interventions. Journal Article
Read MorePLOS One This article explores community perspectives on COVID-19 and health authority responses across the three main areas of control in Syria, i.e. Syrian government-controlled areas (GCA), autonomous administration-controlled areas (AACA), and opposition-controlled areas (OCA). Journal Article
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