Evaluation of ECMWF ERA-40 temperature and wind in the lower tropical stratosphere since 1988 from past long-duration balloon measurements T. Christensen, B. M. Knudsen, J.-P. Pommereau, G. Letrenne, A. Hertzog, F. Vial, J. Ovarlez, and M. Piot Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark Service d’Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS, Verrières-Le-Buisson, France Centre National d’Études Spatiales, To...

abul’at?hieh, a distinguished poet and the innovator of the technique of ascetic poetry in abbasid era, was obviously and markedly under the influence of the holy qur’an and made an extensive use of quranic rhetorical devices and figures of speech in his poems. the influence of the qur’an on abul’at?hieh is in all lexical, collocational, musical, rhetorical and thematic areas. however, those fi...

Wasim Maziak Syria Of all its accomplishments, the West is perhaps most proud of its scientific revolution, which has been unfolding for the past halfmillennium. Only students of history remain consistently mindful of the pivotal and catalytic role that the Arab world played in the early phases of this revolution. Now, all of us should have a vested interest in advancing science and technology ...