Early rheumatoid arthritis tends to affect your smaller joints first â particularly the joints that attach your fingers to your hands and your toes to your feet. As the disease progresses, symptoms often spread to the wrists, knees, ankles, elbows, hips and shoulders. In most cases, symptoms occur in the same joints on both sides of your body.
The Arabian Peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Middle East and the Arab world due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. Before the modern era, it was divided into four distinct regions: Hejaz, Najd, Southern Arabia and Eastern Arabia.
Somalis traditionally migrated back and forth between the Somali colonial states and the Arabian Peninsulas part of trade, familial movements (intermarriage in what would be Yemen), and education. In the 20 th century there was a significant increase in migration from Somalia to the Arabian Peninsula. In the 1970s and 1980s, the number of Somalis moving to the Gulf States climbed significantly as employment opportunities opened up with the development of those oil-rich countriesâ economies.