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Sustainable development is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges the world continues to face today. We live in a world where more than 800 million people still live in extreme poverty; one out of nine people are starving; 2.5 billion lack access to clean water; and 1.3 billion people have no access to modern electricity. It is against this backdrop that the world leaders in September 2015 adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, enshrining the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that all UN Member States are expected to use for framing their sustainable development agendas and policies until 2030. This article seizes the opportunity to engage in the ongoing discourse on the contributions from major sectors to the realization of the SDGs, particularly in the face of growing world population. The purpose of the article is to explore the role of the energy sector in the implementation of sustainable development agendas, particularly in the MENA region. The article finds that the region's diverse circumstances and substantial petroleum and natural gas reserves make it an ideal region for typifying the central role of energy in today's world. The article explores, under five themes, some pertinent issues relating to the UNSDGs and their connectivity to energy, drawing illustrative examples from four countries – one small resourcerich country (Qatar), one relatively large resource-rich country (Saudi Arabia), the largest country from North Africa (Egypt), and a country grappling with the challenges of reconstruction after years of strive andinstability (Iraq). The article highlights that some of the countries are successfully unlocking the benefits of economic growth, through the development of their natural resources. It concludes that, through concerted efforts to address some challenges, extractive sector operations can play significant roles in advancing the SDGs in the entire region.
Keywords: Sustainable Development; UNSDGs; Energy; MENA Region.

Adopting the technologies among organizations comes with the continuous worries of protection and hacking. The idea of cyber-security has become over the years the main interest of many organizations, which depend on technologies in its operations, which requires them to pay extra attention to their technological infrastructure. The current study aims at examining the influence of cyber-security forces on organizational internal operations and the role of technological infrastructure in defining and controlling the level of protection that cyber-security has on organizational internal processes. Quantitative approach was adopted, and a questionnaire was utilized to collect the data from a convenient sample of 360 software engineers, network engineers, software testers, web developers, and technical support using a structured survey questionnaire, and analyzed using SPSS version 21. The results confirmed that cyber-security motivators (data growth, technology expansion, access to required resources, operational control, and technical control) indirectly affect solid internal processes that are attributed to the consistency of technological infrastructure in an organization. The variable of 'data growth' appeared to be the most influential motivator on cyber-security strategies, as it scored a mean of 4.2661, which is the highest among all adopted variables and followed by the variable of 'technical control', which scored a mean of 4.1296. Accordingly, the study recommends that organizations should consider IT infrastructure as a main item within their risk management strategies to avoid unpredicted risks and attacks.

The outbreak of the "Arab revolutions" took the whole world by surprise. These were nothing like earlier revolutions. They made no demands in the name of religion or ideology. They had no apparent leaders, sponsors or charismatic figures. In this contribution, I would like to address the following questions: How did the erstwhile "disorganized" and "subjugated" Tunisian multitude discover its power and reclaim its capacity to act? How did it transform itself into a historical subject? How the different voices cooperated in order to elaborate new organization forms? My answers are sustained by a field research I have developed in a recent publication (Kilani 2014).

Résumé Prenant pour point de départ la controverse autour du cannibalisme en tant que phénomène social et culturel avéré, ce texte discute des procédures mises en avant par les anthropologues pour fonder le statut véridictionnel de leur discipline. Il s'intéresse plus particulièrement à la question de l'administration de la preuve et de son rapport avec la rhétorique propre au discours anthropologique. À travers deux exemples : la maladie du kuru, diagnostiquée chez une population de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée réputée cannibale, et la thèse répandue d'un cannibalisme préhistorique, l'article tente d'expliciter le processus de codage par lequel un ensemble de traces, d'indices et de témoignages est construit en preuve.