background: insufficient sleep is a significant public health issue with adverse medical consequences. sleep disturbances are common among university students and have an effect on this group’s overall health and functioning. the aim of this study was to investigate sleep habits and disorders in a population of university students across lebanon. methods: this was a cross-sectional study carrie...

Diseases of the circulatory system are the main causes of death and drivers of health care costs in Lebanon. However, no study has yet tried to assess the burden of such diseases in Lebanon. This study set out to estimate the incidence and prevalence of major diseases of the circulatory system by using physician-reported data. For this purpose, a sample of physicians treating such diseases (car...

the political crisis in lebanon during the past three years has remained one of the critical issues in the regional and international scenes. this article attempts to examine the short-term and long-term causes of the political crisis in lebanon. it proposes that demographic changes in favor of the shias, increased power of hezbollah, the multi-ethnic structure of lebanese society, the type of ...

in the course of our faunistic survey on leafhoppers (hem.: cicadellidae) in northwestern iran, 46 species were collected and identified of which the species macrosteles chobauti ribaut, 1952 is newly recorded from iran. drs. hani abdul-nour (lebanese university, lebanon) and paul freytag (university of kentucky, usa) confirmed the identification of the species.

lebanon has been considered a sample of europe in the middle east, and it is surprising to have an islamic resistance against israel in this small modern country. the islamic resistance was, at the beginning, portrayed as having a very different ideology from that of the neighboring countries of the middle east. this resistance was established on the basis of being a resistance model for the fr...

CAIRO, Egypt (A P ) — Secretary o f State George P. Shultz said yester­ day he thinks he can w in an agree­ ment fo r w ithdraw al o f foreign troops from Lebanon, and indicated the United States w ou ld o ffer to help guarantee Israel’s security to speed an accord. “ President Reagan has sent me here to show America’s determ ina­ tion to help in the process o f peace in the M iddle East, ” Shu...

symptoms of the leaf scorch disease on the leaves of oleander infected by xylella fastidiosa appearing for the first time in lebanon were confirmed by elisa tests and anatomical observations of sections of petioles by a scanning electron microscope. xylella fastidiosa was detected in the xylem forming bacterial aggregates in the lumen of tracheary elements. the bacterium colonizes and invades t...

1Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 2Departments of Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and Psychiatry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA 4Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA 5Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, S...

This paper assesses the political nature of reconstruction in Lebanon in the wake of the 33-day war between Hezbollah and Israel in the summer of 2006. It illustrates the extent to which Arab and Gulf States assumed a major role in the reconstruction effort that followed the fighting. A significant competitive dynamic attached itself to the reconstruction of Lebanon, with external actors attemp...