The title of this report, ‘After the Arab Spring: Power Shift in the Middle East?’, deliberately ends with a question mark. The events over the year and a half since the death of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, have left the politics of the Middle East in tumult. The Arab Spring has certainly resulted in a change of regime in Tunisia and then Egypt. The uprisings against Gaddafi’s regime triggered...

Renewable energy sources are a promising hope for avoiding many environmental and economic problems such as the of climate change pollution resulting from fossil fuels combustion, in addition to oil derivatives high prices their absence countries, which turn affected rise electricity prices. Yemen is considered one countries most by due lack result ongoing wars Yemen. This paper presents techni...

This paper focuses on daily violence as the main theme in novel The Smile Owner which was written by Fekriah Shahrah. It depicts hegemony of Houthi militia Yemen. is an analytical study interprets novelist’s literary work Owner. Moreover, instrument data collection interview with novelist has been conducted to shed more light novel. based critical analysis text, real context Violence a global i...

Hospital-based studies have revealed very high relative frequencies of oral and pharyngeal cancers in Yemen. This study estimated the relative frequencies of oral and pharyngeal cancers among Yemeni cancer patients registered in 2007 and 2008 and determined patients' demographic and tumour characteristics. Of the registered 7515 cases, 302 (4.0%) were oral cancer and 239 (3.2%) pharyngeal cance...

Health providers' perceptions about the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Lahej governorate, Yemen, were explored in a qualitative analysis of 12 in-depth interviews in 2007. The following themes emerged: appreciation of clinical aspects of IMCI but unclear about community IMCI; IMCI working better in peripheral than central health facilities; inflexible rules; lack of integr...

A recent molecular phylogeny of the Arid clade of the genus Hemidactylus revealed that the recently described H. saba and two unnamed Hemidactylus species from Sinai, Saudi Arabia and Yemen form a well-supported monophyletic group within the Arabian radiation of the genus. The name 'Hemidactylus saba species group' is suggested for this clade. According to the results of morphological compariso...

1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sana’a, Sana’a, Yemen. ABSTRACT The practice of self-medication is widespread in the Republic of Yemen. The objectives of this study were to describe the treatment of malaria in households and to promote rational treatment. We surveyed 201 households with family members suffering from malaria or...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study are to highlight the clinicopathological features of urinary bladder cancer in Yemen, and to describe the histological grading of urothelial neoplasms according to the World Health Organization and International Society of Urologic pathology (WHO/ISUP 1998) classification. METHODS This is a descriptive record-based study of 316 cases of bladder cancer diagnos...

Consuming modern medicines with traditional herbs to treat and prevent diseases or even maintain health well-being is common in different countries. Despite the high prevalence of this activity Yemen, there neither proper regulation that controls production, standardization, quality control use nor an appropriate system for herbal pharmacovigilance Yemen. Yemenis prefer before resorting allopat...