countries. In the last few years, the geography of biomedical publications became the subject of detailed analyses.5,6 Many of these studies relied solely on PubMed for data collection.7-14 In Arab countries, one study focused primarily on the Gulf Corporation Council member countries, and demonstrated that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) occupies a leading position in terms of biomedical pub...

The transformations broadly grouped under the term Arab Spring have shaken the foundations of a variety of Middle East regimes. This POLICY BRIEF provides an overview of different cases where changes of and within the regime have taken place, as well as yet unsolved situations, with a view to the upcoming Middle East Conference. Although the lack of progress in the PalestinianIsraeli conflict a...

Abdalla Elhwuegi Libya Abdalla Glessa Libya Abdelaziz Elzouki Saudi Arabia Abdel-Hady El-Gilany Egypt Abderrazak Hedhili Tunisia Abdul Gabaj Libya Abdul Nafey Kazi Pakistan Abdul Rehman Arshad Pakistan Abdulaziz Zorgani Libya Abdulbari Bener Qatar Abdulkareem Alsuwaida Saudi Arabia Abdullfattah Lakhdar United Kingdom Abdulmunem Abulayha Libya Abdurazak Shlebak United Kingdom Abdurrazzak Gehani ...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of diabetes and hypertension is increasing in the United States. Estimates for Blacks and Hispanics are higher compared to non-Hispanic Whites. When comparing estimates among racial and ethnic groups, Whites are used as the reference category. Whites are a very heterogeneous group, comprising persons having origins in Europe, North America, or the Middle East. The objec...

BACKGROUND There is a dire need in the Arab world and Middle Eastern countries to reform the higher education, research policy and planning for improving the quality to meet the needs of modern society. The impact factor (IF) was developed in the 1960s by Eugene Garfield of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in the USA. It has been extensively used for more than 40 years. The SCImag...

the necessity of reform in persian gulf region brought by itself the question of “imposed democracy”. the most important plan in this context was the broader middle east and north africa initiative” that is directed by united states. examining the consequences of this plan prove the relative changes in shiite situation first; then that the initiative is still working and; third the effect of vi...

The importance of Information and Communication Technology cannot be overstressed, with ICT affecting all aspects of life such as education, entertainment, and the Internet. This paper deals with the steps and phases of implementing eGovernment in the Arab states. The obstacles that can be expected during the implementation of eGovernance are discussed along with the policy to address these bar...

There have been three economic transformations of the Arab Gulf. Yet the obstacles today remain eerily similar to those of forty years ago. The first transformation occurred after the discovery of oil, variously between the 1930s and the 1960s. For the first time, what had been one of the world’s poorest regions had the means to build elements of basic infrastructure and to improve standards of...

Understanding sustainability in a broader sense, as relating to the nature and quality of economic growth, and drawing on the recent literature on the fundamental determinants of growth, this paper looks at the achievements and prospects of the internal sustainability of Arab countries. The countries are classified in four broad categories depending on their production structure. The relevant i...