Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1000239 Biochem Anal Biochem ISSN: 2161-1009 Biochem, an open access journal *Corresponding author: Marwa Muhammad Abu-Serie, Medical Biotechnology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City), New Borg El Arab, Alexandria, Egypt, Tel: +2034593422; Fax: +2034593407; E-mail: marwael...

The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2011 in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid, set off a sequence of events culminating in the revolutions of the Arab Spring. It is widely believed that the Internet and social media played a critical role in the growth and success of protests that led to the downfall of the regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. However, the precise mechanisms b...

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...

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Egypt's President A n w a r Sadat was shot d u rin g a m ilita ry ’ parade Tuesday. See re lated story a t right. (AP p h o to ) CAIRO. Egypt (A P ) — President Anwar Sadat, whose peace w ith Is­ rael changed the course o f M iddle East history, was assassinated yester­ day by six Egyptian soldiers w ho jum ped from a jeep on m ilita ry parade and charged the review ing stand fir in g autom ati...

Objective: To detect differences in attitudes towards psychiatric illness, regarding its nature, cause, different ways of therapy, possibility of cure and the effect on the society in two areas from different socioeconomic classes in Egypt. Method: A survey study using self administered questionnaire, to detect culture differences between students of Cairo and Beni Suef universities “Beni Suef ...

BACKGROUND To meet the future challenges of infectious diseases and limit the spread of multidrug resistant microorganisms, a better understanding of published studies in the field of infectious diseases is needed. The objective of this study was to analyze the quantity and quality of research activity in the field of infectious diseases in Arab countries and compare it with that in non-Arab co...