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Live-Blog: “Arab Spring or Arab Autumn: Women’s Political Participation in the Arab Uprisings and Beyond”

PITAPOLICY Summarizes: The Wilson Center Middle East Program was the first in Washington, DC to convene a discussion on women in the Middle East and North Africa region, shared its Program Director, Haleh Esfandiari.  The panel debated to what extent … Continue reading

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How Will Investing in MENA Technology Fuel Philanthropy? #MENASocialGood

   Originally published on November 4th, Huffington Post Section of Social Entrepreneurship in Partnership with Schwab Foundation What will tackle the biggest social, health or economic problems in each country? Philanthropic missions? Innovative technology? Or a version of Bill Gates … Continue reading

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Notes from the ‘Capital of Innovation’

Last week, PITAPOLICY shared with you tips on managing your business during the year-end holiday season by PITAPOLICY Consulting Founder Mehrunisa Qayyum.  This week we wanted to share with you addition tips on innovation and entrepreneurship via this article found on … Continue reading

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Forget #Sandy, It’s All About #TedX Baghdad

Greeeeeeetings Pita-Consumers: For those of you on the Northeast coast of the U.S. PITAPOLICY hopes and prays the best for you as well as the power getting turned back on.  Winds are about 38 miles per hour in our neighborhood, … Continue reading

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Cutting Off Aid to Arab World Hurts U.S. Business

This month on PITAPOLICY, we zeroed in on the impact of the Arab Spring on MENA country economies and the strategic focus of implementing development organizations in North Africa, including Egypt.  We conclude this month with a contribution from PITAPOLICY Founder Mehrunisa Qayyum, who argues … Continue reading

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New York’s C3 Summit: U.S.-Arab Forum for Business Development

New York – Since July is all about development in the pita-consuming region, PITAPOLICY is proud to announce that it will be ATTENDING the first C3 Summit as a Blogger.   From September 13th to the 14th, the C3Summitt  will convene … Continue reading

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July Is All About Development

Dear Pita-Consumers: The month of July is all about development in the pita-consuming region.  Please send your submissions to Nadia at info@pitapolicyconsulting.com.  To kick off the discussion of development, PITAPOLICY is revisiting the Technology theme from March in today’s posting. … Continue reading

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