energy consumption has been essential to societies; because societies depend on the rising provisions of energy to meet their requirements for goods and services and endorse sustainable development. the major source of energy nowadays is oil; oil consumption is dependent on oil availability, production and price. several arab countries are considered as major suppliers of oil in the world; cons...

In Arab countries, women have far fewer opportunities than men do to acquire essential capabilities and to utilise them effectively on a broad front. They are also more widely deprived than men of their civil and human rights. In human development terms, such deprivation is seen as the main characteristic of " the marginalisation of women ". Women's opportunities to develop and utilise their ca...

Introduction This chapter considers social patterns that contribute to shaping the position of women in Arab societies today. It focuses on the impact of two central sources of influence: cultural and especially religious heritage and Arab intellectual production. Culture plays a pervasive role in composing the social context of women's position in the Arab world, and religious interpretations ...

1 Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia, 2 PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia, 3 Global Drug Development, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey, United States of America, 4 Department of Pharmacy, Universit...

Objective: The main aim of the study was to examine the impact of patients’ ethnic diversity on the patient satisfaction level to psychiatry care and explores the satisfaction domains with mental health care. Design: This is a prospective cross sectional study. Setting: Psychiatry department of the Hamad Medical Corporation. Subjects: The study sample was Qatari and other Arab nationals aged 18...

centuries. Starting from the pre-Islamic era in the 6th century AD and extending to the 16th Century AD when the Ottoman Sultan Salim I in 1516 AD invaded and destroyed the Mamluk Dynasty in Syria and Egypt extending the Ottoman Empire into North Africa. The language of science at the time was Arabic. Many scientists and physicians throughout the Muslim Empire taught and wrote in Arabic. This w...

In the first of 5 papers about health systems and services in the Arab countries, the historical development of health systems over the past 3 decades is reviewed. The evolution of health care has been impressive with major strides accomplished by governments to improve the health status of their respective population. However, the progress has been uneven in view of the differentials in resour...

Xuan Li,1 M.R. DeJoseph,2 Janice H. Urban,2 Amine Bahi,4 Jean-Luc Dreyer,5 Gloria E. Meredith,3 Kerstin A. Ford,1 Carrie R. Ferrario,1 Jessica A. Loweth,1 and Marina E. Wolf1 Departments of 1Neuroscience, 2Physiology and Biophysics, and 3Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, 4Department of Anatomy, United Arab Emirates Univ...

Higher, especially university level, education has a distinctly important role in the education system and in the knowledge acquisition system in general. However, the deteriorating state of higher education in Arab countries, particularly in quality, has become one of the hallmarks of underdevelopment by contemporary criteria. If such deterioration were to continue, it is feared that higher ed...