Qatar's Nation Branding and Soft Power: Exploring the Effects on National Identity and International Stance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783031246531)

​Nawaf Al-Tamimi is an assistant professor of journalism at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Al-Tamimi holds a PhD from the University of West London (United Kingdom). With over 25 years of experience in Journalism & Corporate Communications, he has worked with numerous leading media outlets and international corporates, including Asharq Alawsat Pan-Arab newspaper in London, Arab Radio and TV Network in Saudi Arabia, and Alaraby Aljadeed daily newspaper in London. During his work, he has covered many events around the world, as well as participated in many TV debates related to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) affairs.
Azzam Amin is an assistant professor in psychology at the School of Psychology and Social Work at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar). He holds a PhD in cross-cultural and social psychology from the Université Lumière, Lyon 2 (France). He also served as an associate professor (maître de conférences) at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Lyon (France). Amin has been a member of the Social Psychology Research Group of the University of Lyon II for eight years (2008-2016). Since 2001, he has been a member of the International Association for Intercultural Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland (L'Association Internationale pour la Recherche Inter-Culturelle), and was a member of the Association of Scientific Bureau during the periods (2005-2007) and (2010-2012). He has published numerous articles and research on identity and belonging, intolerance and sectarianism, culture, social integration, and cross-cultural psychology in Arab and international journals, including in Qatar, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Canada, among others. Amin further is a member of the editorial committee of the Hermon Center for Contemporary Studies. He was awarded the Arab Prize for Social and Human Sciences for research published in Arab and foreign journals for the academic year 2016/2017, presented by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.

Nourollah Zarrinabadi is a researcher at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar). His research includes research on education and political psychology. He has published more than 40 ISI articles and three books with Springer and Palgrave Macmillan.