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Arabization and multilingual knowledge sharing
No full textThe Work Package 2 (WP2) “Networking and Research Setup” aims to enable close and
sustainable scientific cooperation between EU scientists and BZU Sina Institute and to enhance
the institute’s capacity in scientific cooperation through carrying out several activities:
- Facilitate co-supervision of PhD students (Task 2.1),
- Set up joint research and cooperation (Task 2.2), and
- Encourage co-authoring of scientific articles (Task 2.3),
- Self evaluation (Task 2.4).
This Deliverable is the final report on the consortium's activities carried out in the Task 2.2:
“Set up joint research and cooperation”. It covers all activities and outcomes of research and
cooperation setup, which can be summarized as the following:
Four EU multilingual knowledge portals developed in previous EU FP7 and eTen projects
have been Arabized, i.e., extended to support Arabic:
MICHAEL, in section 3, is a thesaurus-oriented portal for the promotion and
valorization of digital cultural content. This cultural heritage portal provides a
multilingual service to explore digital collections from museums, archives, libraries, etc.
Unfortunately, MICHAEL was not full Arabized, as the source code of MICHAEL
portal was not available during the project, hence only some related tasks were carried
out, such us partial translation of MICHAEL’s thesaurus. The project board decided to
Arabize the two other portals: OKKAM and Organic.Edunet.
KYOTO, in section 4, is an ontology-oriented wiki-portal in ecology and environment
domain. Unlike other portals, KYOTO supports SPARQL queries over structured data
and using a rich ontology. Thus, KYOTO ontology has been mapped to the top and core
concepts of Arabic Ontology, which is the important step toward integration into the
KYOTO architecture, and the potential to facilitate integration with large scale
knowledge bases such as DBPedia and GeoNames.
OKKAM, in section 5, is an entity management system, and a spin off by UNITN.
OKKAM was Arabized (its Interface, Ontology, content, an searching functionality) to
facilitate the disambiguation and linkage of Arabic entities with different languages. The
entities that were considered include people, organizations, products, places, and events.
Such entities have different names (lexical labels) in different languages, which is a
major challenge faced when integrating knowledge from different sources, cultures, and
languages. SIERA partners have defined a set of activities in task that aim at resolving
and linking Arabic entities with entities in multilingual portals to leverage the
knowledge across such multilingualism and culture diversities that the portals support
The role of arbitration in maintaining the economic equilibrium of the international investment contracts
No full textتحضير و تشخيص و دراسة الفعالية الحيوية لمركبات تحتوي أيون الزنك الثنائي و الدكلوفيناك أو الاندوميثاسين و قواعد نيتروجينية
No full textThe official discourse of the American president George W. Bush towards the Palestinian issue, 2001-2009
No full textThe change in the social construction of the Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons post 2000
No full textNon-communicable diseases in the Arab world
No full textAbla,Sibai:American University of Beirut
Khader,Yousef:Jordan University of Science and Technology
Awad,Mataria:World Health Organization WHOAccording to the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, the burden of non-communicable diseases
(cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases, and diabetes) in the Arab world has increased, with variations
between countries of diff erent income levels. Behavioural risk factors, including tobacco use, unhealthy diets, and
physical inactivity are prevalent, and obesity in adults and children has reached an alarming level. Despite
epidemiological evidence, the policy response to non-communicable diseases has been weak. So far, Arab governments
have not placed a suffi ciently high priority on addressing the high prevalence of non-communicable diseases, with
variations in policies between countries and overall weak implementation. Cost-eff ective and evidence-based
prevention and treatment interventions have already been identifi ed. The implementation of these interventions,
beginning with immediate action on salt reduction and stricter implementation of tobacco control measures, will
address the rise in major risk factors. Implementation of an eff ective response to the non-communicable-disease
crisis will need political commitment, multisectoral action, strengthened health systems, and continuous monitoring
and assessment of progress. Arab governments should be held accountable for their UN commitments to address
the crisis. Engagement in the global monitoring framework for non-communicable diseases should promote
accountability for eff ective action. The human and economic burden leaves no room for inactio
The making of the Lancet Series on health in the Arab world
No full textSamer,Jabbour:American University of Beirut
Marwan,Khawaja:United Nations Organization
Carla,Obermeyer:American University of BeirutConducting research to provide evidence that can
contribute to improving health in a region engulfed
in war and ongoing turmoil is not an easy matter.
Researchers in our region must struggle with and overcome several constraints, including heavy teaching
loads and institution-building priorities, leaving little
time dedicated to research; absence of institutional
incentives and support for conducting quality research;
dearth of publicly available datasets; and absence of
funding and government commitment to encourage
research. But above all, we must sometimes confront
enormous challenges brought about by wars and
confl icts, injustice, fragmentation, insecurities, and
uncertainties, which can at times suddenly dwarf our
research agendas and make them irrelevant.
In response to this predicament and to remain engaged,
productive, and relevant we learned the impor tance of
working in teams and building networks to support each
other. And so, over the past decade, a group of us came
together on the basis of a common understanding of the
importance of the social and political contexts of health;
an interest in developing frameworks of analysis that
are relevant to the realities and refl ective of the needs of
our region; and with the aim of giving voice to a regional
perspective on issues of health and wellbeing, now hardly
existing in the international literature
History of education in Palestine : time to reconsider
No full textMotivated by the desire both to explore Palestinian schooling practices during the past century and to learn about some educational innovations, I carried out a small research project entitled “The History of Mathematics education in Palestine,” which was supported by the Scientific Research Committee at Birzeit University. Given the paucity of documentation of the educational system in Palestine, I believed that there would be significant historical value in understanding how Palestinians have been learning
(and teaching) mathematics over time