Frontiers in Psychiatry This article aims to assess the prevalence of severe phobia and addiction to online gaming among Arab adolescents amid an increase in online gaming during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify risk factors associated with these disorders. Journal Article
Read MoreEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research This article investigates the medium- and long-run impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United Nation’s achievement of sustainable development goals in the MENA region. Journal Article
Read MoreRegional Science Policy & Practice This article uses the COVID-19 World Bank Enterprise Survey and utilizes the propensity score matching technique to estimate the causal effect between remote work and firm performance in Morocco and Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreEuro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies This working paper addresses female micro-entrepreneurs’ self-selection prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as discrimination against female micro-entrepreneurs prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia). Working Paper
Read MoreVaccines This article evaluates the general Arabic population in Syria, Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, Sudan, Algeria, and Iraq with regard to fears around the MonkeyPox disease and its vaccine adoption and compares these attitudes to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreFrontiers in Psychiatry This article aims to assess the depression, anxiety, and stress levels of the healthcare workforce (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists) in the Middle East and North Africa region during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreEuropean Institute of the Mediterranean This working paper uses panel microdata from the ERF COVID-19 MENA Household Monitors to document the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth and female workers in Morocco and Tunisia both statically as well as dynamically. Working Paper
Read MoreInternational Journal of Financial Studies This article evaluates the effectiveness of liquidity creation as a main force, in conjunction with other performance predictors such as efficient asset management, asset quality, and bank size, on bank financial performance during the COVID-19 financial crisis in 11 MENA countries. Journal Article
Read MoreArab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences This article investigates through Google Trends the popularity of the medical waste issue during the COVID-19 pandemic in 5 GCC countries (Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain) by using relative search volume to associate it with the quantities of waste generated. 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
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