Several scholars have linked the growth of transnational Arab TV in the Middle East over the past decade to a rise in transnational Muslim and Arab political identification at the expense of national political identity. However, a theoretical context for understanding how media exposure may influence political identification in the Middle East at an individual level of analysis has been lacking...

Despite the increased global prevalence and recognition of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), it is still scarcely reported in the Arab world. Though Israel has a higher prevalence of ASD, a previous national survey of patients diagnosed between 1972 and 2004, demonstrated that 98% of them were of Jewish ancestry. The disproportional low number of Arab children with ASD in Israel is unclear but ...

Available evidence suggests that congenital and genetic disorders are responsible for a major proportion of infant mortality, morbidity, and handicap in Arab countries. The population of the region is characterised by large family size, high maternal and paternal age, and a high level of inbreeding with consanguinity rates in the range of 25-60%. 2 4 w1 Certain disorders are common throughout t...

OBJECTIVES (1) To improve quality and equity by increasing utilisation of mammography screening among Israeli Arab women. (2) To explore effectiveness of designing interventions with a combined top-down and bottom-up approach. DESIGN Retrospective study at two periods of time: 2004--intervention's preliminary stages; 2005--intervention's implementation. SETTING Maccabi Healthcare Services (...

Microporosity hosts a significant portion of the total hydrocarbon volume in Middle Eastern carbonate reservoirs. An improved understanding microcrystals' morphology that micropores, their impact on reservoir properties, and spatial distributions will contribute to more accurate quality prediction. This study proposes methodology utilizes machine learning approaches for microporosity characteri...

countries. In the last few years, the geography of biomedical publications became the subject of detailed analyses.5,6 Many of these studies relied solely on PubMed for data collection.7-14 In Arab countries, one study focused primarily on the Gulf Corporation Council member countries, and demonstrated that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) occupies a leading position in terms of biomedical pub...

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...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND We recently proposed that Lebanon could become a regional 'academic hub' through the repatriation of emigrated Lebanese physicians who would then provide clinical services in the Arab Gulf region on a locum tenens basis. The objectives of this study were to assess the willingness of Lebanese medical graduates practicing in the United States of America to relocate to Leb...

Incidence rates of congenital disorders among the 350 million inhabitants of Arab countries could be influenced via the people's demographic and cultural characteristics. Arabs usually marry at a young age and have large families. They share certain core cultural values and beliefs, with the family accepted as the central structure of society. Consanguineous marriage is favored and respected in...

Xiang-Yu Zheng1,2, Hong-Liang Zhang1,2, Yang Ruan3, Naheed Amir4, Sheikh Azimullah3, Yi Yang1, Abdu Adem3 and Jie Zhu1,2* 1 Department of Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, China 2 Department of Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 3 Department of Pathology , College of Basic Medical Science, Jilin University, China 4 Department of Pharmacology, United Arab Emirates Unive...