Middle East Water Commission

Water desalination and challenges: The Middle East perspective: a review

The Gulf countries are located in the arid and semi-arid regions where rainfall is scanty and evaporation rates are high. Surface water is limited and there are no perennial streams. The increase in population and socio-economic development has led to an imbalance between supply and demand. These countries depend mainly on desalination to meet the growing water needs. This paper reviews the his...

Special Focus on Middle East and North Africa Sponsored by Global Commission on Drug Policy

ING/INDEXING: CINAHL(R) database/CUMULATIVE INDEX TO NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE(R) print index; Addiction Abstracts; Criminal Justice Abstracts; Excerpta Medica/EMBASE; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS); Sociological Abstracts; Social Services Abstracts; Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA); International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (I...

Middle East respiratory syndrome.

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a highly lethal respiratory disease caused by a novel single-stranded, positive-sense RNA betacoronavirus (MERS-CoV). Dromedary camels, hosts for MERS-CoV, are implicated in direct or indirect transmission to human beings, although the exact mode of transmission is unknown. The virus was first isolated from a patient who died from a severe respiratory ...

Middle East Technical University

China’s Energy Strategy on the Middle East

China is a vast and overpopulated country in the eastern Asia whose energy security and supply is the most important factor of economic growth and consequently, economic, social and political security. By the past decades, its leaders have understood the key role of economic growth and development in the economic and political security of china. Thus, they have put all their concentration on th...