In Arab countries, the model of comprehensive freedom and the model of good governance guaranteeing such freedom both face significant conceptual and practical challenges. A combination of global, regional and local circumstances accounts for this. Based on the adopted understanding of freedom, the present chapter briefly discusses some of these issues, examined in more detail in subsequent cha...

OBJECTIVES This study estimates the prevalence of heart disease among Arab and Chaldean American women and examines the association between Arab and Chaldean ethnicity and heart disease among a sample of women. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 2084 Arab, Chaldean, and African American women aged > or = 18 years who completed a survey that was distributed at ...

Trade among Arab countries has been very weak despite previous efforts to engage into different forms of regional economic integration. Using the flexible framework provided by the Gravity Model, the paper gives an order of magnitude of the main factors often presented in explaining the weakness of inter-Arab Trade. The results of the model together with several indicators about export profiles...

revolutionary movements which began in tunis in 2010 immediately impressed all arab countries. these movements have led to many essential changes in the middle east. so far, four presidents have been ousted from power. revolutionary forces in the arab world to achieve their goals used media. so the media played a large role in the revolutionary changes in the arab countries. given the media&apo...

surrealism is a literary school originating in europe, which found its way into the literature of other nations ,including arabic literature and thus having an impact on them. egypt is one of the world's leading arab nations in fiction. egyptian writers’ familiarity with european literature opened a new gate for the literary currents. naguib mahfouz, the great egyptian writer and nobel prize wi...

BACKGROUND Despite the existing knowledge on the association between discrimination and poor mental health, very few studies have explored gender differences in this association in Arab Americans. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to investigate whether gender moderates the association between the experience of discrimination and psychological distress in a representative sample of Arab Ameri...

Gynecological malignancies account for 9% of all female cancers worldwide. In the Arab countries Breast cancer is the leading cancer in women followed by cervical cancer. Ovarian cancer ranks as fourth leading cancer in women. There are huge differences in the available resources among Arab countries. However the challenges facing the provision of gynecological cancers services shared similarit...

The initiative of the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies to establish a database for genetic disorders in the Arab World started in 2004 with a pilot project to catalogue genetic disorders in the Arab population of the United Arab Emirates. The strategy applied for this purpose consisted of data collection from a variety of sources including international and national bibliographic indices, nation...

The cultural background of web users is argued to play a key role in the way they interact with and perceive the usability and usefulness of websites. The objective of this case study is to identify Arab users’ preferences and expectations of the design of Arabic websites in order to examine whether these preferences are consistent with their cultural-specific attributes as described and predic...