The MENA region and COVID-19 : impact, implications and future prospects
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The MENA region and COVID-19 : impact, implications and future prospects
（Routledge studies in Middle Eastern society, 8）
Routledge, 2022
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Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world's richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus's impact patterns are a question of two variables: governance performance and socioeconomic potency. Given the global, unprecedented, complex, and systemic nature of COVID-19 - and its long-term implications for societies, governments, international organisations, citizens and corporations - this volume entails a relevance to regions undergoing similar dynamics. Analyses in the book, therefore, have implications for the comparative study of the pandemic and its impact on societies around the globe. Understanding related dynamics and implications, and making use of lessons learned, are a pathway to deal with future similar crises.
Questions covered in the volume are relevant to geopolitics, social implications and the relations between political leaders and citizens as beings embedded in various strategies of communication. The volume will appeal to scholars of international politics, political science, risk or crisis governance, economics and sociology, human rights and security, political communication and public health.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 licence.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The MENA region and COVID-19 - concept and content of this book
Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Moeller and Jan Claudius Voelkel
Part 1: GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
2. The COVID-19 temptation? Sino-Gulf relations and autocratic linkages in times of a global pandemic
Thomas Demmelhuber, Julia Gurol and Tobias Zumbragel
3. The reverse impact of politics on the COVID-19 response: how Hezbollah determined the choices of the Lebanese government
Nassim AbiGhanem
Part 2: COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
4. 'American Corona' vs. 'The Chinese virus': blaming and othering in Arab media
Carola Richter, Abdulrahman al-Shami, Soheir Osman, Sahar Khalifa Salim and Samuel Mundua
5. Securitisation dynamics and COVID-19 politics in Morocco: old wine in new bottles?
Giulia Cimini and Beatriz Tome Alonso
6. Status-seeking in times of a global pandemic: the United Arab Emirates' foreign policy during COVID-19
Alexander Lohse
Part 3: SOCIAL RESPONSE
7. Religion and pandemic: state, Islam and society in Saudi Arabia and Iran during the coronavirus crisis
Noel van den Heuvel and Ulrike Freitag
8. 'On the horns of a dilemma': human traffickers, the COVID-19 pandemic and victims of trafficking in Khartoum
Manara Babiker Hassan
9. A paradoxal management of COVID-19 in Lebanon: challenges and lessons learnt
Michele Kosremelli Asmar and Joumana Stephan Yeretzian
10. Digital learning under COVID-19: challenges and opportunities - the Lebanese case
Fadi El Hage and Fouad Yehya
11. Conclusions: The MENA region and COVID-19 - lessons for the future
Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Moeller and Jan Claudius Voelkel
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