Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Humanities and Science - University of Ajman, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Sharjah 2010-2012, Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropological Studies at the University of Juba and later Bahri University in Sudan. Member of many academic committees in the department and college, and member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Society of Sociology, has a number of research in the field of social and social work. And a member of the number of advisory committees in journal in the Arab region
There has been an increasing concern that the global shutdown period during the spread of the COVID -19 epidemic will widen the gender gap, and that the gains of women before the epidemic will decline. Since COVID-19 crisis affects men and women in different ways, measures to solve it must take into account the gender. This study clarifies the student community’s interest and awareness of gender equality issues during the initial lockdown period by selecting a representative sample of the student community at Ajman University,362 students out of a 6,042 students, the total number of students, according to Yamani mathematical equation n = N / (1 + Ne ^ 2). The information was collected through an online questionnaire, formulated according to systematic procedures on the Likert trio model, and procedures were reviewed and approved by the University's Research Ethics Committee (REC). The most important findings of the study are that there is a risk that women and girls face the loss of some of the gains made in recent decades, the worsening of gender inequality during the initial lockdown and the spread of the epidemic, in relation to the growing gender gaps in labor force participation rates, and the authority to make decisions, and the equality in unpaid home care. The time that women devote to unpaid care work may increase with the presence of children in the family, especially with the closure of early childhood education centers, care services and schools, which led to the worsening of care requests during the crisis. Also, this decrease in the gains appears through an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The significant findings shows that gender equality during COVID-19, especially during the lockdown period, is decreasing
This research paper aims to identify the relationship between the social variables related to parents and impact on the academic achievement of their children’s after the transition from school education to home schooling during the COVID-19 epidemic. These social variables that the study focused on are gender, age, educational level and work status. To achieve this goal, a random sample of 88 families was selected in the Emirate of Fujairah, with the use of questionnaire and interview tools to collect data. The research provides scientific knowledge about the state of home- schooling during corona virus by studying a case study of the role of the family in e-learning. The most important finding of the study is that there is a relationship between the social variables related to parents and their interest in the academic achievement of their children’s during home-schooling
The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a “massive global field experience” on how to activate the police force at local levels. This experience has given a new paradigm for police work that has gone beyond the traditional role of the police to shift police in most parts of the world during lockdown to new roles directed toward the public health goal of preventing infection. To emerge a new concept and term called “COVID-19 Police” (Boon-Kuo et al., 2020; Sheptycki, 2020), COVID19 is also creating a set of unexpected and unprecedented challenges for police departments around the world (Luong, 2020; Zoha, 2021). The police during the COVID-19 pandemic played an active role in carrying out the mandate to continue to comply with health protocols. Social restrictions are an important phenomenon today for a country (Alharbi et al., 2022), because the violation of social restrictions is difficult to avoid and the role of the police is needed for this policy to succeed. This review aims to clarify the role of the police during the crises of the epidemic, and the expectations of society for the new roles of the COVID police, a case study of the Ajman police in the United Arab Emirates. Police work has been greatly affected worldwide by the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic; within a short period of time, the police have been assigned new responsibilities with changing priorities and focusing on the enforcement of extraordinary emergency orders. Questions about public expectations and trust in police during the pandemic. The police in most countries of the world have found great difficulties and complications in playing the role of health care on the front lines during COVID-19, taking into consideration the various demographic and economic factors that are different between each country (Alcadipani et al., 2020)
The crisis caused by the rapid spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has imposed a swift and profound change on teaching and learning methods. Consequently, most higher education institutions around the world, including African higher education institutions, have moved from face-to-face teaching to online learning and teaching, which has made the use of the internet by university students necessary and obligatory regardless of the risks associated with unsafe use. This quick move to online teaching and learning has exposed African universities to a greater risk of cybercrime. This prompted the researchers to investigate the cybersecurity awareness levels among undergraduate students at African higher education institutions based in the case country, Sudan. In an exploratory research approach, a survey was conducted on a convenience sample of 1,200 undergraduate students at six public universities in Sudan. The results show that most undergraduate students in Sudan higher educational institutions have low cybersecurity awareness levels. Further investigation using inferential statistics reveals that male students at the universities in Sudan have slightly higher levels of cybersecurity awareness than female students. Most of the participants believe that cybersecurity should be taught in schools; they are also willing to learn about cybersecurity. In addition, the results showed that students with advanced computer skills significantly differ from students with intermediate or basic computer skills in practicing cybersecurity.
In Arab universities, sociologists rarely discuss the sociology of death. By studying social and cultural variables along with subjective and objective meanings of death, this paper contributes to filling this gap in research on death in a Sudanese urban area. Furthermore, the study examines the relationship between the burial of the dead and the time and place of their burial, social status, relatives, and religious affiliation as they relate to their burial. A major objective of the research is to explore the social and cultural dimensions of death in Sudanese communities. Data were collected using interviews and observations in the field using the descriptive method. Death is more of a social than a biological fact; therefore, the general findings of this research are about declaration of death, and what it implies about social cohesion. Burial and social acts following death are acts that express social meanings, and further, indicate how biological death has occurred. Based on variables such as social status, family relationship, and religious affiliation, it can be seen that the deceased person and/or family holds these beliefs