Abstract In the anthropology of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), there is an effort underway to decolonize field. This process taking shape in academic writing, institutions, field practices, among broader publics. It must arise from priorities region; it also builds on wider scholarship race, indigeneity, militarism. requires expansion bounds politics, consideration who can participate...

Cancer chemotherapy should aim to benefit patients by improving either the duration of survival or the quality of that survival. Patient survival is measured easily, but valid methods for the assessment of physical, social and emotional health have been more difficult to develop. The definition of quality of life (QL) is essentially a philosophical problem and there are no "gold standards" to w...

The transformations broadly grouped under the term Arab Spring have shaken the foundations of a variety of Middle East regimes. This POLICY BRIEF provides an overview of different cases where changes of and within the regime have taken place, as well as yet unsolved situations, with a view to the upcoming Middle East Conference. Although the lack of progress in the PalestinianIsraeli conflict a...

This is a systematic review of existing data on dietary selenium (Se) intake and status for various population groups in Europe (including the United Kingdom (UK)) and the Middle East. It includes English language systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, cross-sectional and case-control studies obtained through PUBMED searches from January, 2002, to Novem...

This paper examines convergence of real GDP per capita in the selected East Asian countries and this relationship with selected Middle East countries during the period 1950-2009. The reason behind this refers to the fact that East Asia countries (including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and South Korea) have been involved in achieving success arising from regi...