Kamel on Egypt’s Economic Policy Challenges
Thalia Beaty | 11 May 2013
An Egyptian woman carries a cooking gas canister in Cairo on April 2, 2013 (Photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP). Carina Kamel of Al Arabiya has written a devastating article on the challenges Egypt’s new cabinet faces in crafting a plan for the economy. In dispassionate terms, she details how the numbers do not add up. Here are some highlights: No amount of foreign...Iranian Women: Victims of Economic Strain
Anonymous* | 6 Sep 2012
An Iranian woman walks in Tehran. (Photo credit: Reuters - Morteza Nikoubazl) Around the globe, women’s rights are the subject of intense political wrangling. In many Western countries, like the United States, the conversation typically revolves around issues of gender and sexuality, featuring frequent debates on sexual violence and women’s reproductive...PODCAST Interview with Shahinaz Ahmed on Employment and Education in Egypt
Muftah Editors | 18 Apr 2012
In this Muftah podcast, we speak with Shahinaz Ahmed, CEO of Education for Employment, Egypt, about the challenges facing educated young Egyptians seeking employment. We caught up with Ms. Ahmed at the first annual conference of EgyptNEGMA, an organization that aims to support social enterprises that address pressing economic and social problems inside Egypt. Listen...Solving Unemployment in Palestine: Souktel’s Mohammad Al-Kilany
Ashoka Arab World* | 6 Mar 2013
As they say, if you believe it, then it can be real. Mohammad al-Kilany has always believed technology can be a tool for solving the many problems facing his country, Palestine. For Kilany, unemployment represents...PODCAST: Interview with Ghanem Nuseibeh on Philanthropy in the Middle East & North Africa
Muftah Editors | 11 Jun 2012
In this Muftah podcast, we speak to Ghanem Nuseibeh, founder and director of Cornerstone Global Associates, a London-based consulting company, that, among other things, provides political and economic risk assessment...The Arab Uprisings & The Rise of Secularism
Nadine Sika | 17 Mar 2011
The “Shock and Awe” of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions have taken the world by storm. Beginning as uprisings against corrupt regimes and calling for “food, freedom and human dignity,” these movements...
