foreign policy cooperation and coordination among the european community member states and presenting europe with a single voice, has long been an important challenge within the european community/european union, especially since early 1970s. in the early 1990s, following the collapse of the ussr and the end of the cold war, there was a general speculation in europe that the ec may be able to p...

Are sectorally dependent states destined to regime instability as a result of chronic fiscal crisis? Literature emphasizing the importance of a country’s sectoral endowment suggests that oil exporters in particular should exhibit similar policy stagnation and regime decay as a result of fiscal crisis. The cases of Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain in the 1980s and 1990s demonstrate that fiscal crisis ...

We present an analysis of a comment network in the Kuwaiti blogging community during the two weeks in January 2006 surrounding the death of Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. We find a rise in commenting activity corresponding to this event, and use a tag cloud to visualize and analyze this topic and others in the blog posts being commented on. We also present an analysis of the Kuwa...

هدفت الدراسة التعرف على واقع إدارة المدارس الثانوية في دولة الکويت ضوء أزمة (کوفيد19)، والتوصل لبعض المقترحات لإدارة الکويت، وتمثلت عينة (50) مدير مدرسة ثانوية بدولة واستخدمت المنهج الوصفي، وتوصلت التي قد تسهم تحسين الأزمات مثل (کوفيد19). This study aimed to identify the status-quo of secondary school administration in State Kuwait under Covid 19 crisis. The also provide some recommendations co...

Address correspondence to: Farid Saleh, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, Department of Anatomy, Kuwait University. Jabriya, P.O.Box: 24923, Safat, Kuwait, Postal Code 13110, Kuwait. Tel: 4986265, Fax: +965 5319478, E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Farid Saleh, Ghada Ibrahim, Hussein Dashti, Pedro Romero, Abdullah Behbehani, Hilal Al-Sayer, Sami Asfar, Ali Dashti, Wal...

Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Mona Al-Houli, MB, BS, BSc; Mamoun AlQaseer, MB, BS, BSc, FRCPath; Nada Madi, PhD; Naser Husaain; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait; Clinical Virology Unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Nephrology Cons...

infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to document the common causes and patterns of hospitalization among sickle cell disease (SCD) patients in Kuwait. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The case files of all SCD patients admitted to the hospital between 1995 and 2004 were studied. Their personal data, hemoglobin genotype, diagnosis on admission, complete blood count, treatment received, length of stay and out...

Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS), P.O. Box 1160, Surra 45712, Kuwait *Corresponding author Abdulrazzaq Alobaid, MD, FRCSC Chief of Spine Surgery Chief of Orthopedic Casualties Alrazi Hospital-Kuwait; Chairman of Faculty Orthopedics and Post-Graduate Training Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS) Orthopedic Spine Surgeon-Canadian Board Certified P.O. Box 1160, Surr...

347. Antimicrobial Susceptibility of OXA-48, NDM-1 And VIM-4 Carbapenemase-producing Clinical Isolates of Enterobacteriaceae From Kuwait Government Hospitals Wafaa Jamal, MD, PhD, FRCPath; John Albert, PhD; Laurent Poirel, PhD; Vincent Rotimi, MD, PhD, FRCPath; Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait; Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University...