Arab Women Artists

Women Artists in the Collection

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...

Artists' impressions

The recent fuss over one man's ambition to 'make Man in his own image' lends poignancy to Multiplicity, the current exhibition at the Wellcome Trust in London. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the arrival of Dolly the cloned sheep, the exhibition presents the reactions of 24 artists to cloning and genetic engineering. Some of the pictures, like Dave Roberts' mixed media 'Blueprin...

The State of Women in the Arab World

In Arab countries, women have far fewer opportunities than men do to acquire essential capabilities and to utilise them effectively on a broad front. They are also more widely deprived than men of their civil and human rights. In human development terms, such deprivation is seen as the main characteristic of " the marginalisation of women ". Women's opportunities to develop and utilise their ca...

Observations on cancer of the breast among Arab-American women.

1577 Background: Breast Cancer Care among Arab American women (ArA) in the U.S. is not well documented. Dearborn, Michigan (a suburb west of Detroit) is home to a large and diverse population of Arabic ancestry. Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center (OHMC) is located in Dearborn. METHODS We analyzed Breast Cancer cases among ArA at OHMC between 2000 and 2009 and compared with European American ...