UNDP United Nations Development Programme برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي
Programme on Governance in the Arab Region برنامج إدارة الحكم في الدول العربية POGAR
Publications: Legislature
- Preface
- A demonstration of Arab legislative systems
- The Parliament
  - The council of the parliament
  - Chairmanship
  - Parliamentary committees
  - The parliament's membership
  - The parliaments functions
  - Parliament's sessions and audiences
- The Senate
  - Organizations of the senate
  - The membership in the senate
  - The senate's functions
  - The senate's sessions
  - Joint sessions (parliament and senate)
  - The head of the state's legislative functions
  - The majorities
- Conclusion
- Form and language remarks
Structures of the Arab Parliaments: Comparative Study
by Dr. Wassim Harb

The Senate
The senate's sessions:

Like the parliament, the senate meets in ordinary and extraordinary sessions, in addition to public and closed sessions, and sessions for questioning and inquiring the government. We’ve prepared a comparison table presenting all of the above (see fig. T28), that also contains the rules for starting a session and its quorum.

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