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The multiple tragedies of Syria’s displaced women, and why the G20 needs to...
Roughly half of the World’s 60 million plus displaced people - 19 million refugees and 41 million internally displaced people (IDPs) - are female. This the highest number ever recorded and the numbers...
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The other Arab revolution
I just returned from Tunisia, my first ever visit to this beautiful country. It was a touching experience as it is the birth place of the modern Arab Revolution that started in late 2010. Sadly, many...
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Economic inclusion can help prevent violent extremism in the Arab world
A version of this article was first published on the Brookings blog Up FrontTwin suicide bombers in Beirut were followed the very next day by the coordinated attacks in Paris. These were preceded by...
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Can fragility in countries be addressed outside of politics?
*We present two blogs that address the complex challenge of development in fragile and conflict affected environments. Dr. Alaa Tartir of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, uses the example of...
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Palestine is better than its reputation – debunking the de-development myth
*We present two blogs that address the complex challenge of development in fragile and conflict affected environments. Dr. Alaa Tartir of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, uses the example of...
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Why is #COP21 important for the Middle East and North Africa region?
Over 25,000 people have descended on the Bourget in the suburbs of Paris to attend the much anticipated 21st Conference of Parties on climate change, or “COP21”. The first meeting today is due to be...
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#Wateris disappearing in Jordan – how?
As the world gathers in Paris to hammer out a global agreement on how to cope with climate change, Jordan Times journalist, Khetam Malkawi offers her view on the critical challenge of water scarcity...
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Climate change finds the lost world of Socotra Island
I wasn’t in Socotra or the southern Yemeni city of Aden when the two cyclones hit them in mid-November, but I have a big family and many friends who live there. As I listened intently to the news, I...
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Low oil prices give Gulf countries reason to focus on green energy
The 2014/15 oil price collapse may actually provide an opportunity for the Gulf region to focus on “green” economic thinking and on maximizing energy productivity overall. Given their large hydrocarbon...
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Anti-corruption: Tunisia tops transparency in military spending but still...
Tunis-based writer, Christine Petré reviews the latest Transparency International report on corruption in defense spending in the Middle East and North Africa region.Defense budgets in the Middle East...
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How climate change contributed to the conflicts in the Middle East and North...
By Mohamed Abdallah Youness, Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. A Cairo-based academic traces links between climate change and the instability...
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An encounter with a dynamic and forward-looking Tunisia
Driven by the conviction that a solid partnership cannot be built unilaterally from Washington, we visited Tunisia to engage in consultations on the ground, on the new partnership strategy between...
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A visit to Syrian refugees in Lebanon
The Syrian refugee crisis is now at the top of the international agenda. Pictures of refugees crossing the Mediterranean and risking their lives and that of their families have shook the world. The...
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Jordan: A home away from home for Syrian refugees
The names in this article have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.Nine year old Reem probably had one of the shortest distances that Syrian refugees had to travel when fleeing the...
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Middle East moves from power cuts to sustainable energy and lower emissions
The agreement reached by 196 countries at Paris to collectively work to limit the growth of global average temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is a landmark for...
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Tunisian youth and security, five years after the revolution
Tunis-based writer Christine Petré asks why, five years after the Tunisian revolution, young people appear so susceptible to radicalization. The five-year-anniversary of the Tunisian revolution comes...
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Developing but growing less happy: what explains this paradox in the Arab world?
The events of the Arab Spring took the world by surprise: there were no obvious signs of an approaching storm in the Levant and the Maghreb. Objective measures—used on a regular basis—showed that...
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Lebanon, a frail state
“The Paris of the Middle East”, “the Switzerland of the Middle East”, “the Pearl of the Mediterranean”, all these descriptions are used to paint a magical image of Lebanon and its capital city, Beirut....
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Tunisia Presents its Open Budget Project: MIZANIATOUNA (Our Budget)
The Tunisian revolution has spawned a butterfly effect, very specific to its context. On the ground, events have continued to evolve, contributing to a revolution within the Tunisian administration. As...
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Education is even more important in a world that is “flat and fast”: Thomas...
The world is fast. The three biggest forces on the planet—globalization, Mother Nature, and Moore’s Law (the exponential growth of computing power and, so, of digitalization)—are all surging so fast at...
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