During his visit to the American University of Beirut, I was indeed lucky when Professor Holmdahl MH invited me to his Department of Anaesthesiology, University Uppsala, Sweden. I was also, doubly honored and surprised when the internationally famous Professor asked me not to call him Professor Holmdahl, “call me Martin and I call you Anis”. His invitation to me to spend the first week of my vi...

This brief reply gives a few references and clarifies some points in order to emphasize that a number of Professor Seedhouse's assertions are debatable and that his criticism of slovenly scholarship and his unbridled ad hominem argumentation are out of place and easily refuted.

Colleagues active in the Joint University Council (JUC) and in its Public Administration Committee (PAC) will be sad to hear of the death on 25 May 2017 of Professor Christine A. Bellamy. Professor Bellamy was the chair of the JUC between 1998 and 2002. She also chaired its PAC between 1993 and 1996. For her service, the JUC gave Chris the exceptional honour of a lifetime honorary fellowship. D...

In this edition of Focus on Horn of Africa , Hawd radio, Dr. Jon Abbink talked about religion's development in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, as in other parts of Africa, relations between Christians and Muslims show a new dynamic under the impact of both state policies and global connections. Religious identities are becoming more dominant as people's primary public identity, and more ideological in t...

Walter Scott was a Biochemistry professor at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine and a leading figure in the field of HIV drug resistance. His untimely passing in January 2013 marked a loss for his family, as well as for students and colleagues who knew him as a dedicated and unassuming scholar, and a lively scientist with a great sense of humor.