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Kuwait transformed : a history of oil and urban life
As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and wide highways.
In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the twenty-first century, through the bridge of oil discovery. She traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, and social behaviors and relations in Kuwait. The history that emerges reveals how decades of urban planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded an open, tolerant society and given rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti social relations today. The book makes a call for a restoration of the city that modern planning eliminated. But this is not simply a case of nostalgia for a lost landscape, lifestyle, or community. It is a claim for a \"right to the city\"—the right of all inhabitants to shape and use the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires.
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The Wages of Oil
The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and far. Kuwait, meanwhile, has the most spirited and influential parliament in any of the oil-rich Gulf monarchies.
InThe Wages of Oil, Michael Herb provides a robust framework for thinking about the future of the Gulf monarchies. The Gulf has seen enormous changes in recent years, and more are to come. Herb explains the nature of the changes we are likely to see in the future. He starts by asking why Kuwait is far ahead of all other Gulf monarchies in terms of political liberalization, but behind all of them in its efforts to diversify its economy away from oil. He compares Kuwait with the United Arab Emirates, which lacks Kuwait's parliament but has moved ambitiously to diversify.
This data-rich book reflects the importance of both politics and economic development issues for decision-makers in the Gulf. Herb develops a political economy of the Gulf that ties together a variety of issues usually treated separately: Kuwait's National Assembly, Dubai's real estate boom, the paucity of citizen labor in the private sector, class divisions among citizens, the caste divide between citizens and noncitizens, and the politics of land.
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Assessing Soil Liquefaction Potential for Urban Cities of Kuwait
The increasing frequency of earthquakes in Kuwait raises concerns regarding soil liquefaction. Currently, there is no soil liquefaction potential map for Kuwait, even for soil profiles along coastal shores, where the groundwater table is near the surface. To address this gap, investigations and assessments were carried out and ArcMap 10.8 was used to establish five soil liquefaction hazard potential maps for Kuwait for different earthquake scenarios based on available borehole logs. The popular methods for evaluating soil liquefaction hazard are the simplified approach proposed in the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research workshop, which is based on standard penetration tests (for determining the safety factor), and Luna and Frost’s (1998) method to assess the liquefaction potential index. Notably, standard penetration test blows were used to investigate the variations in the soil relative density below the surface, describe seismic sources, and estimate peak ground accelerations (calculated using Cornell’s equation and verified using ground-motion models). Southern Kuwait was highly vulnerable to soil liquefaction potential (local earthquake moment magnitude of 5.5); this was confirmed by the documented structural damage. Such maps can be used to identify the areas vulnerable to soil liquefaction and limit the risk to infrastructure.
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Migraine care in Kuwait and the Arabic Gulf region
Introduction
Migraine has a substantial disease burden in Kuwait and Arabic Gulf countries. We aimed to report the epidemiology and burden of migraine, health system organization, barriers to migraine care, treatment patterns, and unmet needs to improve migraine care in Arabic Gulf countries.
Results
Migraine is the top disabler of all neurological conditions among all ages in this region. The healthcare infrastructure is generally well-developed, with access to both public and private healthcare services. In public service, patients with migraine are managed by a network of healthcare professionals composed of three levels: primary care physicians, general neurology clinics, and headache clinics. Subjects with migraine have access to a broad spectrum of migraine medications, including over-the-counter pain relief and prescription drugs like triptans. Advanced treatments such as onabotulinumtoxinA injections and monoclonal antibodies that focus on calcitonin gene-related peptide are also offered. Many migraine subjects explore alternative therapies that are rooted in traditional practices. Public awareness of migraine is growing in the Arabic Gulf countries, aimed at reducing stigma and improving understanding. There is a need to improve the education of general practitioners and increase the number of headache specialists in addition to improving the role of nurses in caring for migraine patients.
Conclusion
Modern medical practices, traditional beliefs, and a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape shape migraine in the Arabic Gulf countries. Subjects with migraine are encouraged to seek medical advice, explore treatment options suited to their needs, and actively participate in educational initiatives to better manage their condition.
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Physicians’ attitude towards webinars and online education amid COVID-19 pandemic: When less is more
Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, all scientific medical activities were shifted to an online format, in the form of webinars, to maintain continuing medical education (CME). We aimed to assess physicians' attitude among different medical specialties towards this sudden and unexpected shift of traditional face-to-face meetings into webinars, and to suggest future recommendations.
We conducted a cross-sectional, internet-based survey study using a 25-item questionnaire, from November 1 and November 15, 2020. The survey was created and distributed to physicians from different medical and surgical specialties and from different countries via several social media platforms, using a snowball technique.
A total of 326 physicians responded; 165 (50.6%) were females, mean age of responders was 38.7 ± 7.5 years. The majority of responses (93.2%) came from Arab countries. Of them, 195 (59.8%) reported attending more webinars compared to the same period last year, with average of 3 per month. As regard to the general impression; 244 (74.8%) were \"strongly satisfied\" or \"satisfied\", with the most satisfaction for \"training courses: by 268 (82.2%), and \"International conferences\" by 218 (66.9%). However, 246 respondents (75.5%) felt overwhelmed with the number and frequency of webinars during the pandemic, 171 (52.5%) reported attending less than 25% of webinars they are invited to, 205 (62.8%) disagreed that webinars can replace in-person meetings after the pandemic, and 239 (73.3%) agreed that online meetings need proper regulations.
Webinars comprised a major avenue for education during COVID-19 pandemic, with initial general satisfaction among physicians. However, this paradigm shift was sudden and lacked proper regulations. Despite initial satisfaction, the majority of physicians felt overwhelmed with the number and frequency of webinars. Physicians' satisfaction is crucial in planning future educational activities, and considering that this current crisis will most likely have long lasting effects, webinars should be viewed as complementing traditional in-person methods, rather than replacement. In this study, we are suggesting recommendations to help future regulation of this change.
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