International 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
Read MoreBMJ Open This article aims to assess decision-making quality by piloting an audit tool among decision-makers responding to the COVID-19 epidemic in Somalia. Journal Article
Read MoreIJID Regions This article describes the treatment and outcomes of in-patients with COVID-19 in the Syrian city of Latakia. Journal Article
Read MoreConflict and Health This article aims to estimate population mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in nine purposively selected urban and rural communities of southern and central Yemen (Aden and Ta’iz governorates), totaling > 100,000 people. Journal Article
Read MoreHealth and Human Rights Journal This article argues that withholding vaccines from Palestinians reveals the ways that Israel furthers its settler-colonial aims under the guise of liberal humanitarianism and economic growth. Instead of directing these conclusions toward Israel as an exceptional case, the authors contend that these processes reveal how settler-colonial societies use liberal frameworks…
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 MoreJournal of Travel Medicine This article shows the impact of the compounding crises in Lebanon including public health and economic challenges such as COVID-19, severe shortages in medical supplies, pollution, and currency devaluation on Syrian refugee settlements and the host communities. Journal Article
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