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Gulf countries face a challenging fiscal environment The six counties of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are facing economic challenges on two fronts. Like other countries, their top priority had…

  As cases of COVID-19 mount across the Middle East, not everyone is equally vulnerable.  As with most illnesses, increased vulnerability to both contracting and surviving the virus is partly a…

SARS-CoV-2 hit a world unprepared for such a breakout. While responses to contain its spread have been driven by medical expertise, the impacts on national economic systems were accepted as…

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of the attention on Gulf migrant workers has focused on their vulnerability to exposure to the virus as well as the financial…

The numbers are staggering: by early April 2020, over 1.5 billion learners—more than 90 percent of the world’s student population across 188 countries—were affected by school, college, and university closures…

As of the time of writing, Taiwan has recorded thirty consecutive days with no domestic transmission of Covid-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic in January, Taiwan has recorded only…

  “A church which ‘goes forth’ is a church whose doors are always open.”                    Pope Francis Introduction: The Lure of Creative…

The current COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted life across the globe, including closures of schools, businesses and commerce remote work for some, and reduction or loss of employment for others.…

The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) has launched the Covid Project, a data portal to support research into the societal, economic, cultural, religious, and…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments across the globe to impose a number of restrictions on everyday life, including on peoples’ mobility, in order to limit community transmission of the…