Maro Youssef, The University of Southern California & Sarah Yerkes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Introduction The COVID-19 or…
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Claudia E. Youakim, American University of Beirut & Crystel Abdallah, American University of Beirut Government responses in the MENA region…
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Rita Stephan, North Carolina State University[i] The global health crisis is widely recognized as COVID’s first order impact. Indeed,…
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Irfan Ahmed Nazir, Jawaharlal Nehru University On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19, a rapidly…
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Tal Meler, Zefat Academic College The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the health, work, family life…
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Robert Kubinec, New York University Abu Dhabi In this paper I present research on the nature of the government…
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Kevin Koehler, Leiden University & Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Leiden University During the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have…
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Mona Harb, Ahmad Gharbieh, Mona Fawaz and Luna Dayekh, American University of Beirut[1] Two years after the outbreak of…
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Early in the pandemic, POMEPS convened an online workshop with a diverse group of scholars working across the MENA region…
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Ghinwa El Hayek, Tahrir Institute of Middle East Policy The COVID-19 response has been different among the 22 countries that…
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