JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern, of Ave Maria School of Law, considers the ramifications of the recent Arab League agreement to form a joint force in the context of historic efforts on joint defense and economic cooperation

The purpose of this paper is to discuss linguistic sexism of the Arabic language, its causes, and its impact on Arab societies. The Arabic language has sexist grammatical rules that silence women. The language has handed the patriarchal system its dream: authoritative male figures and suppressed...

Many economies are on the trajectory of alternative growth drivers other than conventional capital and labor. Access to credit facilities is a pertinent indicator of economic growth. In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs-8) agenda, the national goal for...

This paper studies the determinants of emigration from six Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in light of the Arab Spring of 2011. The aim is to determine if the economically depressing events which occurred as a result of the Arab Spring, resulted in brain drain for many countries....

European official development assistance to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries increased sharply after 2011, ostensibly in support of the social, economic, and above all political changes demanded by the Arab uprisings. The subsequent turn to development policies driven by...

In the past decade, the gap in the quality of public transit (bus) service between Arab and Jewish localities has narrowed, but this trend was not uniform. The quality of bus service in large Arab localities (more than 20,000 residents), which contain about half of the total population of Arab...

How do political crises affect the interaction between economic and political outcomes? In this paper, we study one of the consequences of political turmoil by empirically examining whether the Arab Spring influenced the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using panel data...

This work aims to shed light on the co-movement patterns of the real estate markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council region in time-frequency spaces by employing wavelet coherence analysis on daily frequency time series data covering the period from 2013M1 to 2023M3. The results indicate that all...

We examine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and voting patterns among Arabs in Israel. We combine panel data on 73 Arab localities with election results and socio-economic indicators for seven election years between 1996 and 2015. Exploiting variation in political...

This study investigates whether Twitter data can be used to infer attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination with an application to the Arabic speaking world. At first glance, anti-vaccine sentiment estimated from Twitter data is surprisingly low in comparison to estimates obtained from survey data....

As intra-Asian trades grow, businesses in the intra-Asian shipping market have expanded. Subsequently, many shipping liners, which have struggled since 2008, have made inroads into Asia as a new market. Although the intra-Asian trade volume has increased, shipping liners in intra-Asia experience...

This paper aims to explore the nature of Work-Life Balance (WLB) policies offered within a developing country (Gaza; Palestine) by two telecommunication companies. Firstly, the cultural context is described, in which two semi-public companies have developed a particular set of family-friendly...

The Arab region’s notoriously high inequality of wealth stands in stark contrast to the unrelenting poverty aggravated by the onslaught of COVID. In a global perspective, one-third of the 20 most unequal countries today are Arab countries. Since the pre-COVID times, one-half of the 16...

It has been widely claimed that the perception of Iranian threat has led Arab states to establish close relations with their old enemy Israel to deal with the Iranian threat. This article investigates whether and how Arab individuals support for the alliance with Israel is also influenced by the...

This paper examines questions related to possible capital account liberalisation in the Mediterranean countries. First, we provide an overview of the extent to which these countries have capital controls along with their exchange rate regimes and some basic macroeconomic aggregates. Second, we...

Globalization has given rise to global business activity, enabling firms to restructure their operations on a global scale. International trade has risen dramatically in recent decades, not just in volume but also in complexity. The study of international commercial interactions has piqued the...

With the development of globalization, international business relationship management and negotiations is an essential concept in the global economy. Since globalization regardless of the status of the country, international business negotiations linked to each country with different...

Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...

The study aims to investigate the effects of financial inclusion on the performance of the banking sector, measured by the return on assets, for a set of 11 Arab countries over the 2013-2019 period in the dynamic panel data framework. In addition to financial inclusion indicators, We include...

Interest increased after the last global financial crisis in 2007, as the crisis revealed the challenges facing central banks in dealing with the financial crises arising from the banking sector, and thus exposing the financial positions of the banking sector to high risks that caused the...

In the digital world, blockchain technology is a relatively new concept. It is among the newest technologies of the contemporary day. The foundation for bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies is blockchain. Blockchains have an unalterable digital record that is serving as the foundation for all...

The literature has extensively focused on the sensitivity of the capital adequacy ratio to the changes in bank-specific and economic variables in developing and developed economies. The current study continues in the same momentum by examining the effects of bank-specific and economic factors on...

This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between the governance of financial stability and the communication policy of Central Banks in the Arab region, and their effectiveness in reducing the fluctuations of the financial cycle in twelve Arab countries during the period (2005-2020)....

The weakness of the risk management system and the financial or economic crises may make the banking sector exposed to high credit risks, which may lead to high levels of default. Furthermore, the high level of debt burden ratio may make customers unable to pay their financial obligations, thus...

In the era of globalization, people around the world are negotiating with counterparties with different cultural backgrounds more often than ever. It has brought many new things and restored some old needs. Some countries have pale and authentic cultural imitation which differ from western...

There has been numerous news headlines and reports in the western media highlighting the role of women leaders of New Zealand, Taiwan, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Germany in managing the COVID-19 crisis as opposed to countries ruled by male leaders of the USA, Brazil, Russia, Spain,...

Orwa ibn Al-Ward is one of the greatest knights, heroes and poets who presented elegant pictures of Arabs before Islam by word and deed. In this literary article, the researcher attempts to probe the depth of the poetry of Orwa ibn Al-Ward as an instance of the greatness of Arabic poetic...