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In Morocco – October 2016 saw protest erupt over abusive police practices that resulted in the death of a fish vendor in the Mediterranean city of Al Hoceima, with the Rif region. What is the name of the resulting protest movement? to protest economic injustice, inequality, and hogra: the daily disdain and injury experienced by many working citizens at the hands of corrupt elites and officials.  

If an emergency general anesthetic is required in a laboring parturient which medication should be administered prior to induction to decrease the risk of aspiration pneumonia? 

What is the drug of choice to treat respiratory depression in the parturient who is receiving fentanyl via patient-controlled analgesia for labor pain? 

In 1969 – a coup overthrew the King Idris government and a Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) took over with the leadership of a young army officer, Muammar Al-Qaddafi.

The Middle East suffers in part from the effects of persistent authoritarianism, lack of political participation, poor economic growth, foreign indebtedness to the West, competition for resources and increasing urbanization.

When did Algeria gain its independence and from which colonial power?

Algeria is located in the Khaleej sub-region.  It is only a few hundred miles from the southern Indian peninsula and it is the largest country in Africa. 

Please match the correct term/concept with its meaning/definition – thank you!

Quasi-democracies: Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia (until 2022), and Turkey (until around 2015) may be described as quasi democracies. All can be considered somewhat democratic given the structure and functioning of electoral institutions and representative national bodies. Yet due to the emphasis on religion or ethnicity inherent in their political structures, all four are better labeled quasi-democracies.

The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) – One of the most Islamist parties in Morocco. It is moderate in its ideological orientation and has gradually managed to establish itself as a major political force within parliamentary politics. The party was originally founded by Abdelkrim al-Khatib but without much political weight until it was allowed by the Moroccan regime to be integrated by a group of Islamists known as shabiba al-islamia to become part of the Unity and Reform Movement which changed its name to the PJD in 1998. Allowing the PJD to exist in the political landscape is part of the Moroccan regime’s strategy to domesticate the Islamists. But given the nature of the political system in Morocco, the PJD does not actually have a hold on power which is concentrated in the hands of the monarch.