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Trump sprak vorige week de intentie uit om alle sancties tegen Syrië op te heffen, en zo lijkt de handruk tussen de Amerikaanse president en de Syrische leider Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa de symbolische aftrap te hebben vormgegeven voor een nieuwe stap in de diplomatieke relatie tussen Syrië en Amerika. Maar hoe belangrijk is het afschaffen van deze sancties voor de mensen in Syrië? Wat is de impact op de regio? En volgen De EU en Nederland vanzelf of plaatsen zij nog kanttekens bij de beëindiging van het sanctiepakket? Jan spreekt erover met Abdou Bouzerda, journalist bij Bureau Buitenland. 

In the aftermath of a bloody weekend that left hundreds of people dead, the IDF is closely monitoring the fighting in northern Syria between troops loyal to Syria's leader Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa , formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, and members of the Alawite community, supporters of the ousted Alawite president, Bashar Assad. Israel's Druze community are also following developments closely and praised the promise from Prime Minister Netanyahu that no harm would come to Syria's Druze residents. KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with Dr Amir Khnifess, Chair of the Israel Druze Center. (Photo: AP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JavaScript is a critical part of modern WordPress, but some backend developers may struggle with “learning JavaScript deeply.” Ross Wintle and Ahmed Hussein discuss their own journeys, and how they’ve come to enjoy modern JavaScript development. WP Engine and Delicious Brains Delicious Brains announcement WP Engine announcement WP Engine questions and answers Press This podcast interview with Brad Touesnard and Jason Cohen WP Migrate WP Migrate WP Migrate 2.3 Released JavaScript resources Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) JavaScript reference CanIUse.com JSDoc - TypeScript annotations in comments Type-safe JavaScript with JSDoc WesBos JS30 WesBos ES6 Course Just JavaScript You Don't Know JS Alpine.js Syntax Podcast JavaScript Geolocation API (MDN) JavaScript Modules Electron

JavaScript is a critical part of modern WordPress, but some backend developers may struggle with “learning JavaScript deeply.” Ross Wintle and Ahmed Hussein discuss their own journeys, and how they’ve come to enjoy modern JavaScript development. WP Engine and Delicious Brains Delicious Brains announcement WP Engine announcement WP Engine questions and answers Press This podcast interview with Brad Touesnard and Jason Cohen WP Migrate WP Migrate WP Migrate 2.3 Released JavaScript resources Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) JavaScript reference CanIUse.com JSDoc - TypeScript annotations in comments Type-safe JavaScript with JSDoc WesBos JS30 WesBos ES6 Course Just JavaScript You Don't Know JS Alpine.js Syntax Podcast JavaScript Geolocation API (MDN) JavaScript Modules Electron

While many folks think of JavaScript as a “modern” web programming language, it is, in fact, only a year younger than PHP. In this episode of the Delicious Brain Waves podcast, Iain chats with WP Migrate developer Ahmed about the history of JavaScript. Ahmed takes us through how JavaScript came about, why it was almost universally hated at one point, and how the language has evolved in recent years. Iain and Ahmed also look at the state of JavaScript frameworks in the WordPress developer ecosystem and discuss the team’s experiences working with the new React-powered user interface in WP Migrate 2.0. Show notes: jQuery CommonJS Node.js Svelte Episode 3 - Why We Chose Svelte over React or Vue Backbone.js React WP Migrate 2.0 Let us know your thoughts on Twitter

While many folks think of JavaScript as a “modern” web programming language, it is, in fact, only a year younger than PHP. In this episode of the Delicious Brain Waves podcast, Iain chats with WP Migrate DB Pro developer Ahmed about the history of JavaScript. Ahmed takes us through how JavaScript came about, why it was almost universally hated at one point, and how the language has evolved in recent years. Iain and Ahmed also look at the state of JavaScript frameworks in the WordPress developer ecosystem and discuss the team’s experiences working with the new React-powered user interface in WP Migrate DB Pro 2.0. Show notes: jQuery CommonJS Node.js Svelte Episode 3 - Why We Chose Svelte over React or Vue Backbone.js React WP Migrate DB Pro 2.0 Let us know your thoughts on Twitter

A podcast focusing on the topic of new insulin therapy and the lived experience. Our speaker is Dr Ahmed Hussein and our host is Jan Alford. The learning objectives of this series of podcasts are; 1. To discuss the changing landscape of insulin therapy 2. To identify the new insulins on the market and who they are appropriate for and how they differ from the insulins already established in Australia. 3. To learn from clinical experience how use of these newer insulins has affected patients living with diabetes. Dr Ahmed Hussein is the Endocrinology Staff Specialist at Bankstown Hospital and his career roles to date include Endocrinology specialist, Western Sydney Diabetes and integrated care, Blacktown Hospital, Endocrinologist, Macquarie University Hospital and Conjoint Lecturer, Western Sydney University.

  In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one's reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this fifth episode of The Art of Reading, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary further elaborates on how a student can build an intimate relationship with a text. He provides a framework of surveilling a text on various levels, and also how to analyze concepts and propositions laden within the text. He urges the student to always try to determine the questions the author is trying to answer in a text.     Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He's currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.

  In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one’s reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this fifth episode of The Art of Reading, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary further elaborates on how a student can build an intimate relationship with a text. He provides a framework of surveilling a text on various levels, and also how to analyze concepts and propositions laden within the text. He urges the student to always try to determine the questions the author is trying to answer in a text.     Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He’s currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.

In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one's reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this third episode of The Art of Reading, Dr. Yusuf Patel asks Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary to provide a detailed methodology of reading a text. In addition to providing procedural steps to reading, Shaykh Ahmed highlights the critical need of the reader to build a relationship with the book and author. This relationship will allow the reader to build on what he or she has attained from the text, and facilitate the possibility of contributing to the subject matter.  However, before a reader establishes a relationship with the author of a book, it is essential that the reader establishes a relationship with Allah and the Prophet (SAW), so that the reader may be a recipient of blessings and openings through the journey of acquiring knowledge. As in the previous two episodes, Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary continues to inspire us by sharing valuable and cogent insights in the discipline of Adab al – Mutala'     Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He's currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.

In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one’s reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this third episode of The Art of Reading, Dr. Yusuf Patel asks Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary to provide a detailed methodology of reading a text. In addition to providing procedural steps to reading, Shaykh Ahmed highlights the critical need of the reader to build a relationship with the book and author. This relationship will allow the reader to build on what he or she has attained from the text, and facilitate the possibility of contributing to the subject matter.  However, before a reader establishes a relationship with the author of a book, it is essential that the reader establishes a relationship with Allah and the Prophet (SAW), so that the reader may be a recipient of blessings and openings through the journey of acquiring knowledge. As in the previous two episodes, Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary continues to inspire us by sharing valuable and cogent insights in the discipline of Adab al – Mutala’     Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He’s currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.

In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one's reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this second episode of The Art of Reading, Nabiel Mohamed asks Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary to discuss the historical development of Adab al Muṭāla' as a genre within the classical tradition, and the various factors which resulted in its emergence as a science. Furthermore, Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary discusses the various theories related to deep reading within the Islamic tradition, and he elaborates on two methodological examples of how to read and approach texts.   Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He's currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.02-

In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one’s reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this second episode of The Art of Reading, Nabiel Mohamed asks Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary to discuss the historical development of Adab al Muṭāla' as a genre within the classical tradition, and the various factors which resulted in its emergence as a science. Furthermore, Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary discusses the various theories related to deep reading within the Islamic tradition, and he elaborates on two methodological examples of how to read and approach texts.   Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He’s currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.02-

In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one's reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this episode, Dr. Yusuf Patel asks Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary why many students of knowledge are not able to read and master texts that they have studied. In addition to answering the above question, Shaykh Ahmed discusses the various phases of mastery that students should attain during their studies, and how the science of learning developed in the classical Islamic period and in modern times. Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He's currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.

In this new podcast series, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with structure and comprehension. In this series, Shaykh Ahmed will provide students with a detailed approach to rectifying this problem. In addition to offering practical tips and guidance in improving one's reading and learning skills, Shaykh Ahmed will also elaborate on the development of the instrumental (foundational) sciences within the Islamic tradition and how they compare to medieval and modern theories of literary comprehension. In this episode, Dr. Yusuf Patel asks Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary why many students of knowledge are not able to read and master texts that they have studied. In addition to answering the above question, Shaykh Ahmed discusses the various phases of mastery that students should attain during their studies, and how the science of learning developed in the classical Islamic period and in modern times. Biography of Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary is a researcher in Islamic intellectual history and a teacher of Islamic traditional sciences. He’s currently a teacher of Hadith, Usūl, Logic, and Kalam at Rawdatul-Na`īm under the supervision of Habib `Ali al-Jifrī; and at Madyafat Shaykh Ismaīl Sadiq al-`Adawī (RA), a prominent learning center by al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Formerly, Shaykh Ahmed worked as a Lead Researcher at Tabah Foundation. He was appointed by Habib `Ali al-Jifrī to architect the philosophical framework of Suaal initiative – an initiative concerned with modeling an Islamic philosophical response to contemporary existential questions, supervised by Shaykh `Ali Jumu`ah, Habib `Umar and Shaykh Usama al-Azhary. Shaykh Ahmed continues to participate in Suaal initiative through essays, public lectures, and workshops. Shaykh Ahmed studied Anthropology at American University in Cairo and received his training in Leadership Communication from Tulane University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a life-long learner. He holds a diversified portfolio of almost 50 certificates in a variety of subjects – extending from Teaching Character and Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People to Complexity Theory, Model Thinking and Conflict Analysis. Shaykh Ahmed began his journey of studying traditional sciences about 20 years ago. In addition to studying with scholars from al-Azhar, he had the privilege of studying with visiting scholars from Algeria and India in a one-on-one format and was thus given an exceptional opportunity to study and discuss advanced-level texts of different sorts and over a long period of time. Shaykh Ahmed has more than 70 Ijazas from scholars from all over the Muslim world.

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast On The Beat, where Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Doctor Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 In our first paper, Parikshit Sharma and associates reported on the use of permanent his bundle pacing to improve hemodynamics in 39 patients with right bundle branch block. His bundle pacing was successfully performed in 37, or 95 percent of the patients, and resulted in narrowing of the QRS complex from 158 milliseconds to 127 milliseconds. P = 0.0001. An increase in left ventricular ejection fraction from 31 percent to 39 percent. P = 0.004, an improvement in the New York Heart Association functional class from 2.8 to 2.0 P = 0.0001. This work suggests that his bundle pacing maybe helpful in right bundle branch block patients with left ventricular dysfunction.                                                 In our next paper, Philippe Debruyne and associates added to our understanding of using catheter ablation to modulate the autonomic nervous system in patients with neurally mediated syncope, signs of no dysfunction and functional AV block. Prior reports of autonomic modulation using catheter ablation have required extensive ablation in both atria. In this article, the authors report a significant 95% reduction in syncope at six months as a result of targeted ablation in the right atrium alone, focusing on partial ablation of the interior right ganglionated plexus. Ablation is quite limited, taking a mean of seven minutes and creating a mean surface area of 11 millimeters squared. This technique has promise as a possible treatment for avoiding a need of pacemaker implantation in some patients.                                                 In our next paper, Shankar Baskar and associates examined the characteristics and outcomes of pediatric patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators and compared them to their adult counterparts. They examined ICD recipients in the NCDRICD registry from 2010 to 2016. There were 562,209 total ICD implants, including 3461 pediatric patients. Of the pediatric patients, 60 percent of implants were for primary prevention with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy being present in 60 percent of the patients, the most common underlying disease. Over time, there is an increasing trend of both primary and secondary prevention ICD implantations, P less than 0.05. Compared to adults, pediatric patients were likely to have structural heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ion channelopathy, and to receive a single chamber device. All P less than 0.001. There is no difference in in-hospital complications between the adult and the pediatric cohorts, 2.4 percent versus 2.6 percent. However, among pediatric patients, lower weight, Ebstein's anomaly, worse New York Heart Association class dual chamber and resynchronization defibrillator were associated with greater risk of complications. Although, re-intervention for generator replacement or upgrade was more common in adults, the time to re-intervention was shorter in the pediatric cohort.                                                 In our next paper, Ahmed Hussein and associates examine the effect of using ablation index guiding ablation in 40 patients with persistent HO fibrillation on the rate of pulmonary vein reconnection. Pulmonary vein reconnection was seen as a mandatory repeat electro-physiologic study in 22 percent of patients, effecting seven percent of pulmonary veins. Ablation on the intravenous cryna was required in 44 percent of patients to achieve durable pulmonary vein isolation. Atrial tachyarrhythmia occurrence was documented in eight to 20 percent of patients, only one of whom had pulmonary vein reconnection at repeat study. At 12 months, 30 out of 40, or 95 percent of patients, were in sinus rhythm, with four or 10 percent of patients having starting antiarrhythmic drugs. Higher body mass index and excessive alcohol consumption were the only significant factors associated with atrial tachyarrhythmia occurrence.                                                 In our next paper, Atsushi Hirayama and associates examined whether acute exasperation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease increases the risk of repeated atrial fibrillation related health care utilization. They examine 944 patients who are hospitalized for acute exasperation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had emergency department visit or hospitalization for atrial fibrillation during a 450 day period. Compared to the reference period, the rate of atrial fibrillation related emergency department visits or hospitalizations significantly increased in the first 90 days after acute exasperation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 7.3 versus 14.1 per one hundred person months, resulting in a risk ratio of 1.93.                                                 In our next paper, Namsik Yoon and associates examined the mechanisms underlying the electrocardiographic and arrhythmic manifestation of experimental models of early repolarization syndrome and the ameliorative effects of radio-frequency ablation. The authors recorded axis potentials, bi-polar electrograms, and transmural pseudo electrocardiograms for coronary perfused canine left ventricular wedge preparations in 11 animals.                                                 The ITO agonist, NS5806, the calcium channel blocker Verapamil and acetylcholine were used to pharmacologically mimic the effects of genetic defects associated with early repolarization syndrome. The provocative agents induce prominent j waves in the ECG secondary to the accentuation of the action potential notch in the epicardium but not the endocardium. Bipolar recordings displayed low voltage fractionated potential in the epicardium due to temporal and spatial variability and appearance of the action potential dome conceal the phase two reentry develop when the axon potential dome was lost at some epicardial sites but not others. Appearing in the bipolar electrogram, is discrete high frequency spikes. Successful propagation of the concealed phase two reentered beat precipitated ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Radiofrequency ablation of epicardium destroyed the cell displaying abnormal repolarization and thus suppressed the j waves and the development of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in six out of six preparations.                                                 Stavros Stavrakis and associates described ten patients out of 843 patients, or 1.2 percent with AV nodal reentry tachycardia who required ablation of the basal inferolateral left atria, during stable antegrade slow, retrograde fast, AV nodal reentry tachycardia, a single late atrial extra stimulus was delivered at the inferolateral left atria, near the mitral annulus. All patients had failed ablation in the inferior triangle of Koch, and or roof of the coronary sinus. In all ten patients, a late atrial extra stimulus advanced the his bundle potential by at least ten milliseconds and reset the tachycardia. Ablation at that site, eliminates slow pathway conduction and terminated the tachycardia. Ablation was successful at the site of the latest atrial extra stimulus delivered 49 milliseconds after the onset of this his bundle potential. In their series, no recurrent tachycardia was noted at one year follow up.                                                 In our final paper, Justine Bhar-Amato and Malcolm Finlay and associates examine the hypothesis that increased cholinergic tone exerts its pro-rhythmic effects in Brugada Syndrome through increasing dispersion of transmural repolarization in patients with spontaneous and drug induced Brugada Syndrome. Using a recording array in the right ventricular outflow tract and a micro-catheter in the great cardiac vein to record intracardial and epicardial signals, the authors constructed S1S2 restitution curves from the right ventricular apex at baseline and after edrophonium challenge.                                                 The authors studied eight Brugada Syndrome patients and compared them to eight control patients with super ventricular tachycardia. Electrophysiological studies in controls demonstrated shorter endocardial than epicardial right ventricular activation times, mean difference 26 milliseconds. In contrast, Brugada Syndrome patients showed longer endocardial than epicardial activation times, mean difference -15 milliseconds. Brugada Syndrome patients significantly larger transmural gradient in their activation recovery intervals, mean intervals 20.5 versus 3.5 milliseconds, with longer endocardial than epicardial activation recovery intervals. Edrophonium challenge increased the gradients in both controls to a mean of 16 milliseconds. In Brugada Syndrome, to 29.7 milliseconds. However, these changes were attributed to epicardial activation recovery, interval prolongation in control patients. In endocardial activation recovery interval prolongation in Brugada Syndrome patients. Dynamic changes in repolarization gradients were also observed across the right ventricular wall in Brugada Syndrome patients.                                                 That's it for this month. We hope that you'll find the journal to be the go to place for everyone interest in the field. See you next time.  

Dr Ahmed Hussein is a professor of nuclear physics at the University of Northern British Columbia and a research scientist at TRIUMF and Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US. Dr Hussein will be speaking about a a new and safer design for a nuclear power plants called dual fluid nuclear fission reactor. Among its other benefits, these reactors can make use of waste from traditional nuclear reactors as fuel while also extracting considerably more energy from existing nuclear fuel. Recorded at the Sunday, February 14, 2016 meeting of the BC Humanist Association in Vancouver. Learn more at http://www.bchumanist.ca

Veckans avsnitt handlar om hur viktig idrott kan vara när man kommer som flykting till ett nytt land. Vi besöker Motala där flyktingungdomar får prova på att åka skridskor för allra första gången. Och så pratar vi med Ahmed Hussein som laddar för sin tredje VM-turnering med det Somaliska bandylandslaget.Redaktör: Petra Svensson.

Veckans Marika i P4 handlar om att byta plats i världen och vad som händer då. Vi pratar om dialekter som är svåra att förstå, kulturkrockar både inom och utom landet och om hur man jobbar med integration genom att spela bandy i Sibirien. Jessica Perdius från Malmö har flyttat runt mycket i Sverige och i världen och berättar några dråpliga historier om ord som betyder olika saker beroende på var de uttalas. Magnus Fållsten växte upp som missionärsbarn i Etiopien och flyttade hem till Sverige först när han var 16 år hans väg in i den hemmasvenska kulturen innehöll några rejäla kulturkrockar. Mansduon Filip Hammar och Fredrik Wikingsson berättar om hur deras flytthistoria sett ut. De diskuterar också varför deras dokumentärfilm Trevligt folk, som handlar om hur det somaliska bandylandslaget bildades i Borlänge, egentligen är en integrationskomedi. I samband med detta hör vi också mittfältaren Ahmed Hussein berätta om sina tankar inför årets bandy-VM i Ryssland. Programledare: Marika Carlsson Bisittare: Martin Lagos Redaktör: Maja Åström Producent: Tommie Jönsson