Weqaya The majority of respondents to a survey conducted by a job website (Bayt.com) expected an increase in remote work. Respondents did not look forward to pre-pandemic in-person work settings. Article
Read MoreWilson Center This Wilson Center article highlights theCOVID-19 pandemic’s impact on working women in the MENA region. In Arab countries, women lost their jobs at a rate of 4.1 percent as a result of the pandemic compared to a 1.8 percent drop in men’s employment. Article
Read MoreInternational Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the proceedings of an IMF expert panel assessing the post-pandemic recovery in the countries of the region. Article
Read MoreMiddle East Institute The Middle East Institute discusses political and economic reforms necessary for post-pandemic recovery in the countries of the region. Social disparities and low productivity, the panel concludes, will continue to challenge such reforms. Article
Read MorearXiv Labs This paper aims to help distinguish between misleading and sarcastic posts about COVID-19 in Arabic, a distinction that is often overlooked by non-Arabic-friendly data analytical systems and classification models. Journal Article
Read MoreWorld Bank This World Bank report discusses factors that exacerbated the pandemic’s burden on MENA governments, namely that governments were “ill-prepared” and overestimated their capacities to overcome the pandemic. Article
Read MoreWorld Bank This World Bank report discusses factors that exacerbated the pandemic’s burden on MENA governments, namely that governments were “ill-prepared” and overestimated their capacities to overcome the pandemic. Article
Read MoreInternational Organization for Migration This article examines social protections for migrants during and after the COVID-19 pandemic & entry requirements adopted by several MENA countries. Article
Read MoreEmerald Insight This study aims to investigate the spillover between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stock index and several security indices, including Sukuk and conventional bond, and ultimately compare the hedge effectiveness of Sukuk and conventional bond. Journal Article
Read MoreJournal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics This paper presents the SIR pandemic model to evaluate the susceptible (R), infectious (I), and removed (R) for COVID-19 in Iraq for the period from the 22nd February 2020 to the 26th June 2020. Journal Article
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