The article focuses on the situation of Shiites in Bahrain after events “Arab Spring” 2011. make up majority population this country, but continue to be oppressed by ruling Sunni dynasty al-Khalifa Kingdom. Shia political and spiritual leaders are being prosecuted.

Computer Engineering Department, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research (KUSTAR), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008, USA Department of Communi...

Emergency Department and “Google Flu Trends” Data as Syndromic Surveillance Indicators for Seasonal Influenza L. H. Thompson, M. T. Malik, A. Gumel, T. Strome, and S. M. Mahmud 1. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB 3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Sciences, Khalifa University of...

Hazim O. Khalifa, Ahmed M. Soliman, Ashraf M. Ahmed, Toshi Shimamoto, Tadashi Shimamoto Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Dru...

Is Understanding Explanatory or Objectual? [Forthcoming in Synthese. Please cite final draft.] Kareem Khalifa Department of Philosophy Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 Abstract: Jonathan Kvanvig has argued that "objectual" understanding, i.e. the understanding we have of a large body of information, cannot be reduced to explanatory concepts. In this paper, I show that Kvanvig fails to es...

Effects of GSS on Meaningful Learning by Ron Chi-Wai Kwok and Mohamed Khalifa investigates the contributions GSS has on collaborative learning. The level of understanding is assessed by the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy. The results of the empirical study indicate that GSS supported collaborative learning leads to a significantly higher level of understanding than c...

This study investigated textual and inter-textual reading of a group of Iranian EFL undergraduates’ careful English reading types. In this research, Khalifa and Weir’s (2009) reading framework was used to propose a more inclusive aspect of a careful reading framework and the reading construct for instructional and assessment goals. The participants of this study were B.A. students of English Tr...