The December 2010 self-immolation of 26-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, a desperate response to the debilitating lack of economic opportunities for Tunisia’s youth and the pervasive sense of humiliation engendered by the state’s corrupt and degrading treatment of its citizens, tapped into deep popular frustration in Tunisia and throughout the Middle East. It sparked a series of uprisings th...

Thirty two curdlan producing bacterial isolates were obtained from eight different Governorates in Arab Republic of Egypt. Four isolates namely K10, K17, K20 and K74 were selected as highly efficient of curdlan production. The effect of some nutritional and environmental factors on curdlan production by those selected isolates was investigated using shake flask as a batch culture. The optimum c...

The declaration followed an assessment of the poliovirus situation in 2014 as of 26 April and included updates from countries affected, namely Afghanistan, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and the Syrian Arab Republic. It concluded that the current situation required coordinated international response because this situation could result in failure to era...

Features selection is an essential step for successful data classification, since it reduces the data dimensionality by removing redundant features. Consequently, that minimizes the classification complexity and time in addition to maximizing its accuracy. In this article, a comparative study considering six features selection heuristics is conducted in order to select the best relevant feature...

In attempting to attain some perspective on Iran in history, I begin, as I think one must, with the Arab-Islamic conquests in the seventh century—that series of epoch-making events following the advent of Islam, the mission of the Prophet Muhammad and the carrying of his message to vast areas east and west from Arabia, and the incorporation of many lands, from the Atlantic and the Pyrenees to t...

information and communication technologies are a set of tools, machines, technical knowledge, methods and skills to be used for production, trade, processing, storage, recycling, transferring, and transport of “information”. in the globalization process, information has created the possibility for formation of various formal and informal networks by individuals, groups, and even other networks,...

BACKGROUND Bibliometric studies are increasingly being used for research assessment by involving the application of statistical methods to scientific publications to obtain the bibliographics for each country. The main objective of this study was to analyse the research productivity originating from 13 Middle Eastern Arab (MEA) countries with articles published in toxicology journals. METHODS...

The article is devoted to the history of coming power and analysis domestic foreign policy President Arab Republic Egypt (ARE), Field Marshal Abd-аl Fattah al-Sisi. author notes that new leader country chose a tough internal political course aimed at strengthening his own suppressing opposition, fi rst all, Muslim Brotherhood (the organization’s activities are prohibited on territory Russian Fe...

Although the parliamentary elections run in Egypt in December 2011January 2012 indicated that Egypt is witnessing an era of political or democratic transformation, they signified the rise of political Islam to authority; the rise which created a lot of debates and posed a lot of questions about the political and economic future of Egypt. The core of these debates circles around these questions:...

Knowledge has always been at the heart of economic growth and development. It is disseminated chiefly through the different stages of education, R&D, the mass media and the translation industry. In Arab countries there has been a widespread impression that there is a low level of translation activities, which in turn has led to a low output of the translation industry in those countries. This p...