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Despite a number of core similarities on the levels of history, politics, culture and language, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is extraordinarily complex, and individual Middle Eastern countries differ in virtually every way. From demographic makeup, to geography, to economy, to geostrategic considerations, the great differences among Middle Eastern nations help explain why each country has taken part differently in the Arab Awakening, as well as the markedly dissimilar government responses to the protest movements.

And yet the Arab Awakening is a phenomenon of the Middle Eastern region.
Likewise, one can enumerate challenges shared by virtually all the MENA nations, as well as the main social and political groups. This talk will analyze how the Middle East and North Africa region has been changing in the past three years. The focus of the talk will be understanding both the regional precipitants of the protests and the political, economic, and social challenges ahead.

How has the Middle East changed and what's in store for the future? How has Israel's place in the region been affected by these ongoing changes?

We'll look at the unprecedented discovery, understanding & technology
developments in photovoltaics over the past few years and will
try to put these in an alternative sustainable energy perspective.

We show that driven two dimensional Bose systems cannot exhibit algebraic superfluid order unless the underlying microscopic system is strongly anisotropic. Our result implies, in particular, that recent apparent evidence for Bose condensation of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor quantum wells must be an intermediate scale crossover phenomenon, while the true long distance correlations fall off exponentially. We obtain these results through a mapping of the long-wavelength condensate dynamics onto the anisotropic Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation.