OBJECTIVES This study estimates the prevalence of heart disease among Arab and Chaldean American women and examines the association between Arab and Chaldean ethnicity and heart disease among a sample of women. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 2084 Arab, Chaldean, and African American women aged > or = 18 years who completed a survey that was distributed at ...

â â â  moral values of shanfara in , lamyat- alarab ode â  â  somayeh kazemi * â  jafar delshad ** â  â  in this descriptive-analytic study, the researchers aimed to study the verses of lamyat- al arab and examine the moral values and mental pains which made the poet shanfara express such values. â  this survey has been affected by a hadith that indicates the tendency of the poet to the moral v...

One of the characteristics of the modern international systems is the undeniable role the new communication technologies play in different sections of human societies. Modern communication technologies such as satellites and computers have challenged the national authority and sovereignty of Vestfallian states.  Although national states, specially, in the third world countries, extremely resist...

Bu çalışma, I. Dünya Savaşı sırasında İngiliz istihbaratının yurtdışı (MI6) kollarından olan Arap Bürosu’nun gizli yayın organı Bülteni üzerine bir incelemedir. 1915'te ilan edilen Osmanlı cihadına karşı etkili mücadele yöntemine ihtiyaç duyan Londra, savaş süresince Orta Doğu’daki dengeleri elinde tutabilmek amacıyla Mısır Yüksek Komiserliğine bağlı İstihbarat Servisi’nin kolu olarak Bürosu'nu...

the economic situation in the arab countries is due to several factors as the political crisis in a socio-economic vulnerability. political changes are usually accompanied by a drop in production, a deterioration of macroeconomic balances, a high level of poverty, an appearance of economic corruptions and a structural increase in unemployment. in addition, the expansion of terrorism is a main i...

BACKGROUND Despite the existing knowledge on the association between discrimination and poor mental health, very few studies have explored gender differences in this association in Arab Americans. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to investigate whether gender moderates the association between the experience of discrimination and psychological distress in a representative sample of Arab Ameri...

Gynecological malignancies account for 9% of all female cancers worldwide. In the Arab countries Breast cancer is the leading cancer in women followed by cervical cancer. Ovarian cancer ranks as fourth leading cancer in women. There are huge differences in the available resources among Arab countries. However the challenges facing the provision of gynecological cancers services shared similarit...

The initiative of the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies to establish a database for genetic disorders in the Arab World started in 2004 with a pilot project to catalogue genetic disorders in the Arab population of the United Arab Emirates. The strategy applied for this purpose consisted of data collection from a variety of sources including international and national bibliographic indices, nation...