revolutionary movements which began in tunis in 2010 immediately impressed all arab countries. these movements have led to many essential changes in the middle east. so far, four presidents have been ousted from power. revolutionary forces in the arab world to achieve their goals used media. so the media played a large role in the revolutionary changes in the arab countries. given the media&apo...

results we included 66 eligible studies. the pooled prevalence of hbsag in blood donors of both emro and middle eastern (e and m) countries was 2.03% (95% confidence interval [ci]: 1.79 – 2.26). in addition, the prevalence rates in the emro countries was 1.99% (95% ci: 1.84 – 2.14) and 1.62% in the middle eastern countries (95% ci: 1.36 – 1.88). the prevalence among blood donors with more than ...

conclusions: premature stop codon in the s gene was observed in all countries with evaluable hbv genome sequences. co-existence of detectable hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) and s gene premature stop codon was inconsistent with other studies. investigations on yield truncated hbsag are suggested to determine if they can affect elisa hbsag results. background: we have previously reported on ...

background: micronutrient deficiency is one of the major public health problems in the middle east affecting economic, political and social development of countries. the three commonest micronutrient deficiencies belong to iron, iodine and vitamin a.  methods: we conducted a systematic review of published english articles in the middle east countries using databases from pubmed, world health or...

For years, Russia’s role in the Middle East was viewed primarily through its relations with Iran, Iraq, and, more recently, Syria. In 2006, however, a nearly forgotten dimension of Russia’s Middle East policy came to the fore with a new escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this time in Lebanon. Russia has long played an extraneous role in the Quartet on the Middle East, the grouping compose...

Since April 2012, 536 laboratory‐confirmed cases of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV) have been reported to WHO, including 145 deaths (Figure 1). To date, the affected countries in the Middle East include Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen; in Africa: Egypt and Tunisia; in Europe: France, Germany, Gree...

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a new emerging infectious disease that was firstly detected in the Middle East[1-3]. The infection was firstly confined within the Middle East. The first case was from Saudi Arabia in 2012. As noted by Banik et al.[4], since its discovery in 2012, MERS coronavirus has reached 23 countries affecting about 1 100 people, including a dozen children, and cl...

The region of the Middle East is highly conflict-loaded. The absence of one distinct regional power may be considered both cause and consequence of this structural feature. At the same time, there are significant power gaps between states in the Middle East, with Israel among the most powerful actors and accordingly defined as a potential regional power. Due to the specific empirical setting of...