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Introduction : of revolutionary cycles and seasons --. - "Democratic transition" and revolutionary process --. - One revolution, two counter-revolutions --. - Syria : the clash of barbarisms --. - The abandonment of the Syrian people --. - The making of the Syrian disaster --. - The Assad regime's preferred enemy --. - Turkey's and the Gulf monarchies' preferred friends --. - The Syrian predicament --. - Russian intervention and Western wavering --. - Whither Syria? --. - Egypt : the "23 July" of Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi --. - How the Muslim Brotherhood's bid for power unfolded --. - Neither lion nor fox --. - Incensing the country --. - Enter Tamarrod --. - Nasserist illusions --. - The military's second hijacking of the people's will --. - The ruthless rise of Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi --. - The tailoring of Sisi's presidential suit --. - The farcical aspect of Egypt's tragedy --. - Neoliberal constancy --. - Megalomania and megaprojects --. - The military's takeover of Egypt --. - Whither Egypt? --. - Conclusion : "Arab winter" and hope --. - Libya and Yemen : two variations on the same tune --. - The Tunisian "model" and its limits --. - The Arab left and the strategic challenge

This study aims to identify a relationship between the personal factor of coping; the interpersonal factors of familial, friend, and societal support and the inclination to relapse. This study involves the participation of 169 former addicts that completed their treatment and rehabilitation period, by utilising four instruments: the Inventory of Drug-Taking Situations, (IDTS) by Annis and Martin (1985); Coping Strategy Inventory (COPE) by Carver and the Social Provisions Scale (SPS) by Russell and Cutrona (1984). The findings shows the inclination to relapse among former addicts are at a high level for the eight dimensions of the inclination to relapse. This means the participants of this study are at a high risk of relapsing into drug use. The descriptive analytical results towards the problem-focused coping, the emotional coping and evasive coping variables show it at a low level. This also applies to the analysis for the family, friend, and societal support variables. In addition, the correlation analysis for the variables of problem-focused, emotional, and evasive coping, selfefficacy, and family, friend, and societal support, shows a negative significant relationship with the inclination to relapse, with the relationship strength between r=-.60 and r=-.80. Therefore this study shows the importance of the personal and interpersonal factors in reducing the problem of inclination to relapse among former addicts that completed their treatment and rehabilitation period. In conclusion, results show the importance of the personal and interpersonal factor in the problem of inclination to relapse.

Relapse to substance abuse is a global problem and is conceptualized as an integral component of the recovery process. Global statistics on rates of relapse after substance abuse treatment are disturbingly high, averaging about 75% within a 3- to 6-month duration after treatment. This study sought to gain full understanding of the factors that precipitate relapse among substance abusers in Ghana. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 relapsed substance abusers who were previously treated for substance abuse, and three mental health professionals at a psychiatric rehabilitation unit in Ghana. Findings showed that seven factors, including positive/negative emotional reinforcements, sense of loss, interpersonal conflicts, peer influence, familial, religio-cultural, and treatment-based issues complot to instigate and maintain the relapse cycle. The findings provide valuable insights into the relapse phenomenon in Ghana. Clinicians should actively engage family members in the relapse prevention process, and provide insight into religio-cultural relapse precipitants.

Abstract Two Plasmodium vivax recurrences in a Peruvian sailor with weight above the 60 kg (cap for primaquine dosage) highlight the importance of adequate radical cure weight dosage for patient treatment and control efforts, particularly within the military.

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss Jessé Souza's interpretation of Brazil. To this end I develop two interrelated arguments. The first, presented in the first part, is the idea that Jessé Souza in Selective modernity uncritically absorbs a certain ambiguity present in Max Weber's theory of modern rationalization: namely, the Weberian idea that, on the one hand, singularities define the process of formation of modern societies, and, on the other, the European model of society would expand to all parts of the world. These orient Jessé Souza's critique of the classical interpretation that Brazilian modernity is atavistic. The second argument is a logical consequence of the first, intending to show that his concept of selective modernity makes the same mistake of assuming an ideal of modernity upon which Brazil, as a historical reality, should model itself.