The kafala system of migrant sponsorship prevalent in the Middle East has long been subject scholarly and public scrutiny, due to high level reported abuse workers. Prevalent analyses kafalaview it as a rentier that offers economic opportunities for both non-national workers citizen sponsor-employers, despite inherent structural asymmetries bias overall benefits towards latter. However, raciali...

The centenary of Shostakovich's birth, celebrated in 2006, generated considerable interest in his life and music. During the Cold War his music was rarely played in the West, and it was not until after his death in 1975 that it re-emerged. The publication of his memoirs in the UK, in 1979, gave new insights into his life in Soviet Russia. Music, like art and literature, has the power to shock a...

The controversy over abusive interrogations of prisoners during the war against terrorism spotlights the need for clear ethics norms requiring physicians and other clinicians to prevent the mistreatment of prisoners. Although policies and general descriptions pertaining to clinical oversight of interrogations in United States' war on terror prisons have come to light, there are few public recor...

Recent field studies have revived the hypothesis that low self-esteem causes aggression. Accordingly, we reanalyzed the data from a previous experiment and conducted a new experiment to study direct physical aggression in the form of blasting a fellow participant with aversive noise. We also conducted a field study using a measure of indirect aggression in the form of a consequential negative e...

Results: This case illustrates many of the common featur stalking. The female victim was harassed by a male after intimate relationship. The victim suffered from depression guilt, shame, helplessness, humiliation, and posttraumatic disorder (PTSD). The stalking affected her psychological, interpersonal, and occupational functioning. Consequently fired for poor work performance and poor attendance.