Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease This article reports on a project implemented in NorthWest Syria to determine the feasibility, uptake, and results of Ag-RDTs ( (antigen rapid diagnostic tests) as a possible way to overcome the conflict-related barriers to testing. Journal Article
Read MoreMedicine, Conflict and Survival This article analyzes studies related to Risk Communication and Community Engagement programs in northwest Syria in order to determine the most widespread prevention methods in the community against COVID-19 as well as its perspectives and knowledge around the epidemic. Journal Article
Read MoreHuman Behavior and Emerging Technologies This article explores the correlation between Facebook news exposure, preferring high security levels, and curbing some civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic among youth in the U.S., Spain, and Egypt. Journal Article
Read MoreNOVACT This report shows how both crises, COVID-19, and the environmental emergency, have had a very strong impact on an already precarious situation regarding respect and defense of human rights by public institutions and civil society organizations in Libya. Report
Read MoreMedia and Communication This article examines Lebanon’s experience of severe social, political, and economic turmoil and inequalities by assessing knowledge gaps around COVID-19. Journal Article
Read MoreThe International Spectator This article analyzes comparatively the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq and Lebanon to contribute to the debate over how consociational power-sharing works in practice as a fine-grained system to maintain the status quo. Journal Article
Read MoreInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being This article aims to assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crises on Iraqi and Syrian orphaned children and their mothers. It discusses their struggles across different themes: financial crisis, low educational attainment, child labor, mental health issues, violence, and social problems. Journal…
Read MoreContemporary Review of the Middle East This article examines China’s vaccine drive in the Eastern Mediterranean countries of Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic from a soft power angle. 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 MoreGlobal Knowledge, Memory, and Communication This article investigates how virtual campaigns are affecting voters in the elections of Kuwait, as well as whether such virtual campaigns will replace traditional campaigns in the post-COVID era. Journal Article
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