Although the HIV pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a rapidly growing HIV problem. While generating HIV data has been consistently increasing since 2005, MENA’s contribution to the global HIV literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. Sever...

Since the Oligocene, regions adjacent to the Red Sea have experienced major environmental changes, from tectonic movements and continuous geological activity to shifting climatic conditions. The effect of these events on the distribution and diversity of the regional biota is still poorly understood. Agamid members of the genus Pseudotrapelus are diurnal, arid-adapted lizards distributed around...

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

This study analysed the competitiveness indicators of Saudi exports dates using econometric analysis and indicators. The Republic Yemen was found to rank first in importing dates, followed by United Arab Emirates, then Turkey, Kuwait, Jordan, Somalia, Lebanon Qatar. A clear discrepancy existed average export prices between various countries, where price ranged a minimum $559.9/tonne; Syria had ...

introduction dust storms, one type of dust event, are in most cases the result of turbulent winds, including convective haboobs, which raise large quantities of dust from desert surfaces and reduce visibility to less than 1 km. this dust reaches concentrations in excess of 6000 mg m3 in severe events. the major dust source regions are areas of arid and hyper-arid, with mean annual rainfalls of ...

IJKD 2008;2:65-71 www.ijkd.org 1Surgical Kidney Hospital, Ibn Alnafis Medical Complex, Damascus, Syria 2Al-Mouassat Hospital, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria 3Eye Bank, Eye Surgical Hospital, Ibn Alnafis Medical Complex, Damascus, Syria 4Hemodialysis Unit, Damascus Hospital, Damascus, Syria 5Hemodialysis Unit, Douma Hospital, Damascus, Syria 6Gastroenterlogy Department, Ibn Alnafis Hospita...

Two new species of Anemadus from the Near East are described and illustrated. Anemadus lucarellii sp. nov., from South-Western Anatolia, belongs to the Anemadus pellitus species-group (sensu Giachino & Vailati, 1993) and Anemadus kadleci sp. nov., from North-Western Syria, belongs to the Anemadus strigosus species-group (sensu Giachino & Vailati, 1993). The description of these new species mark...