MEDICAL JOURNALISM IN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

The Middle East is known as the cradle of life. Over the past centuries numerous erudite scholars in various scientific disciplines were raised from this region and handed the torch of scientific enterprise over to their descendants1. However, after a while the scientific centers have gradually moved from this region to the West, hence, the aphorism ex oriente lux2. The shift in scientific centers from East to the West had several reasons the most important of which were probably the atmosphere of la belle indifférence among people of the region and concomitant beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenmentin the West