Clik here to view.
INSIGHT: Women of the Arab Spring, Beyond Objects and Subjects
The Arab Spring introduced us to the strength and determination of the many Arab women who took to the streets and the Internet to call for change in their governments and societies. Gone were the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Bolstering Education and Science in the Arab World
A decade ago, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) shone a spotlight on the sorry state of education in the Arab world with its inaugural Arab Human Development Report in 2002, and its 2003...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VOICES: Youth Will Define Yemen’s Future
Positive civil and political youth activism has been the most rewarding result of the Yemeni uprising of 2011. Individual activism, youth initiatives and the participation of youth in new political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: The ‘Chicken and Egg’ of Skills, Jobs in the Arab World
A new report from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – Rethinking Economic Growth: Towards Productive and Inclusive Arab Societies – examines...
View Article‘Harlem Shaking’ It Up Across the Middle East
Just when the Gangnam Style craze began to fizzle, and we thought that the world would be spared another viral dance phenomenon, enter the Harlem Shake. It began as a 2012 heavy bass instrumental...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Women’s Security in the Middle East and North Africa
“It is time for an uprising of women in the Arab world,” writes Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of NOW News in Lebanon in the second annual publication to mark International Women’s Day by the Woodrow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: An Arab Spring Gone Sour?
Two years into the uprisings that rocked the Middle East, it has become common to see instability, uncertainty, and strife as the direct outcome of the Arab Spring. An Islamist threat against civil...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Women in the Workforce in the Arab World
A great debate has been raging over whether the so-called Arab Spring has been good or bad for the women of the region. Some argue that the rise of Islamist governments in places like Egypt and Tunisia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
QUICKTAKE: Close Guantanamo, Says Facility’s Former Chief Prosecutor
More than 200,000 people have signed an online petition calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to close the controversial detention facility for suspected terrorists and enemy combatants at Guantanamo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Youth Unemployment in Middle East, North Africa
As the graph below makes painfully clear, the Middle East and North Africa face significant challenges when it comes to youth unemployment. A World Economic Forum report from 2012 notes, “Unemployment...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Al-Qaida’s Resiliency in Yemen
The closing of U.S. embassies throughout the Middle East due to threats from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) indicates that however successful the U.S. drone program has been, the terrorist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Yemen – Another Battlefield in Saudi-Iran Proxy War
In addition to Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain and Syria, Yemen represents yet another chessboard in the tactical maneuvers between Tehran and Riyadh in the Arab world. The current tide of the sectarian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Year Four of the Arab Awakening
How will history judge the uprisings that started in many parts of the Arab world in 2011? The label “Arab Spring” proved too simplistic from the beginning. Transformational processes defy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INSIGHT: Pluralism Key to Real Change in Arab World
Three years after the start of political upheaval across the region, transitional governments are struggling to maintain popular support amid rising sectarianism, poverty and violent extremism. Of six...
View Article
