Public Integrity This article examines trust in public sector institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacting factors by analyzing a survey administered to a convenience sample of 1,372 local and expatriate residents in the United Arab Emirates during 2022–2023. Journal Article
Read MoreJournal of Palestine Studies This article argues that differences in mortality and vaccination rates between Israelis and Palestinians are a direct result of Israel’s COVID-19 response policies toward the Palestinians throughout the pandemic, as well as its ongoing siege of Gaza and its military occupation of the West Bank including East Jerusalem. Journal Article
Read MoreMigration Letters This article examines the dynamics of Jordan’s response to COVID-19 through the lens of Blau’s theory of exchange & power in social life and explores the exchange process amongst the government, migrants, and Jordanians. Journal Article
Read MoreHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics This article aims to explore COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy by drawing from 37 semi-structured interviews with frontline health workers and service-users across Syria’s major military areas of control. Journal Article
Read MoreTropical 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
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