Two stories characterize the Middle East in general—and the Arab world in particular. They are robust authoritarian regimes suffering economic dysfunction under the stifling “institutional stagnation” of Islamic law. Neither story is credible. In this paper I draw on rather standard economic and demographic data to construct a model of the trajectories to political revolt in 16 Arab countries. ...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of cultural values on motivations and attitudes toward Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in the Arab world, and the factors affecting the continuity of membership value. Online questionnaire was used to collect data from the Arab Facebook members. Structural Equation Modeling, using EQS was conducted to analyze the data. The results indicat...

Asian Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States. The Growing Foreign Population and their Lives. Ed. by Masako Ishii [The Intimate Public Global Perspectives, Vol. 10.] Brill, Leiden 2020. xi, 266 pp. Maps. € 99.00; 120.00.) - Volume 66 Issue 3

Editor—Health indicators in the Arab world show stark differences between individual countries. But aggregate figures provide only a narrow perspective. They do not show variation according to socioeconomic group, sex, education, or political affiliation. The scarcity of databases available to collect such detailed data reflects the fact that inadequate political support exists for rigorous int...

ibn-khaldun,s social change theory has been often classified as cyclic theoty of social changes that has three stages includes in generation, growth and progress and ultimately regressive and decadence. but, what is inferred by rethink in text of ibn-khaldun,s moghaddame, are two different courses,as interrelated to each other, “civilizational evolution” and “cyclic changes of state.avoiding ma...

This paper analyzes overall economic growth performance in the Arab world since the mid 1960s, with the key objective of developing a better understanding about what drives the growth process in the Arab region. Growth in the region since 1985 has been rather disappointing, both relative to the best performers in the developing world as well as compared to the pre-1985 period . Revitalizing gro...

Non-take-up of benefits is a common problem in welfare states. Knowledge gaps are fundamental factor such non-take-up. Through critical social structure and agency lens, the objective current study was to examine contribution different individual variables access knowledge on rights among families living poverty. Specifically, we focused intersection nationality (Arab-Israeli versus Jewish-Isra...

INTRODUCTION The view that spirits may possess humans is found in 90% of the world population, including Arab/Islamic societies. Despite the association between possessive states and various neurological and psychiatric disorders, the available literature has yet to correlate possessive states with functional brain imaging modalities such as single-photon-emission computed tomography. CASE PR...