mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...

afzalodin badil khaghani shervani and nezami ganjavi are two major stylist poets who had profound influences on later poets. most of the khaghani’s poems are lucid and uncomplicated; but many ordinary people, and sometimes some of educated ones find it hard to understand some of his ballades because of different linguistic combinations and scientific terms he used in them. although, what makes ...

GNU R is a widely used programming language and software environment for statistical data analysis and visualization. Bioconductor [1] is a collection of bioinformatics packages that extends R’s standard range of functionality by comprehensive libraries of functions and meta-data predominantly for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomics and molecular biology experiments, and addition...

Most are familiar with the biblical warnings about false prophets presenting as the wolf in sheep's clothing, but in this issue of Blood, Mansoor and colleagues expose a sheep in wolf's clothing by shining a bright light on a newly described benign disease previously pretending to be a very bad malignancy, and doing so quite convincingly.

the principles of political thought in the meccan verses of the quran being discussed in the previous issue, now a few practical examples from the holy quran are presented. the experiences of some prophets, from noah to moses, are studied in the light of quranic political thought. while studying the political interactions between people and prophets, we will realize that prophets such as noah, ...