Interpretations of Islamic Practices Among Non-Qatari Students Living in The University of Qatar’s Ladies Hostel
THIS IS NOT MY ARTICLE, and I have no intentions of presenting it as my own. I met the author while doing some research and thought of bringing it to the members of QL
Abstract
The study design included participant observation in an all female University and University housing. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with second-generation expatriates and Omani students. Physical control of expatriates not only occurs through the Gulf practice of sponsorship (The Kafeel System) but through the local cultural and Islamic related controls intertwined with the Arab code of honor. Subjects living in the University ladies hostel expressed a hidden transcript in the privacy of their own group, expressed disguised resistance in public and occasionally directly confronted the Qatari. Omani students in the hostel disguised their resistance by spreading gossip, nick-naming homosexual Qatari students at the University or by acting out a skit depicting their exclusion from Qatari privilege. This study is part of a larger study which found that blaming oppression of the expatriate worker on globalization is a simplistic view of oppression in the Gulf and ignores complex issues within Qatari society and other Gulf States.
Author's website: http://persiangulfresearch.com/Qatar.html
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At the moment I am broke (No brokeback mountain) so cannot buy the article. If anyone of you can just let me know and I would add your name in the list of generous donators working for the cause of education. Any negative remarks or comments will be highly appreciated.
Kindly visit her website as the numbers of visitors is very small
okay I am gonna pay $32 to get the article. Dont know whether I will be able to upoload the whole article or not. She did get her work published. Anyways I met her only once during my flight to Bahrain.
As long as I mentioned my references so it is not plagiarism.
Sounds like some real analysis research is going on here. However I'm not sure if Id agree with some of her grave generalization in the abstract ?
Do you know the author ? Cant she post the entire/summary results on her website ? Did she get her work published i.e. Have other commented on it ?
p.s. Unfortunately I have no money for this too.