Category Archives: Analysis
Carnegie Asks: “Will Economic Difficulties Derail the Economic Spring?”-Part 1
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Washington, DC- On Monday, November 7th, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Twitter handle: CarnegieEndow) asked the question: Will economic difficulties derail the Arab Spring? Uri Dahash moderated an economic discussion that snowballed into a political analysis … Continue reading
Meet Syria’s Opposition
By: Randa Slim (Randa Slim is an adjunct research fellow at the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation and a scholar at the Middle East Institute. You can follow her commentary on Middle East affairs @rmslim.) Source: … Continue reading
Part 2: Is There Anyone Talking About Technology in the Middle East?
On October 9th, Contributor Technology Consultant, Ramy Ghaly, provided an overview of the technology system in the Middle East & North Africa region (MENA). In his second part, he will elaborate on the prevalent uses with key statistics. PITAPOLICY invites … Continue reading
Tunisia’s Test: POMED Releases “A Guide to the Tunisian Elections”
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum This coming Friday, October 23rd, Tunisia will elect candidates for the 218-seat assembly: the National Constituent Assembly, which will write the new constitution and oversee the processes for both the presidential and parliamentarian elections. (Earlier on September … Continue reading
I Vote to Give Myself a Raise, After I Vote to Drive, But Before I Vote to Open a Business Without Male Guardian’s Permission…
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum, Founder PITAPOLICY Consulting Does economic reform follow political reform or vice versa? Is it better to be an entrepreneur who demands the franchise, or to be the voter who articulates the need to expand more favorable business … Continue reading
September 29th NAAP-DC & PITAPOLICY Roundtable: MENA On Media; Media on MENA
By: Ramah Kudaimi Summary of Roundtable hosted by the Network of Arab-American Professionals-DC Chapter & PITAPOLICY Consulting For Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, the liberating power of social media is something which he experienced personally. The co-host of Al Jazeera’s “The Stream”- a … Continue reading
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Palestine: The History of Peacemaking & the Need for a Game-Changer
By: Omar Baddar **********************************************************************************************************Editor’s Note: Omar is focusing on the particular issue of Palestine, which will be discussed at a joint event held by the Network of Arab American Professionals-DC Chapter panel cosponsored by PITAPOLICY. On September 29th, at 6:30pm, … Continue reading
Part 1~MENA Region’s Human Trafficking: Labor, Migration & Demand
By: Melina Olmo Edited by: Mehrunisa Qayyum On September 23rd, The Woodrow Wilson Center, based in Washington, DC, hosted an event reviewing human trafficking trends in Dubai. Ethnographer, Pardis Mahdavi, described the Middle East & North Africa region’s human trafficking … Continue reading
9/20 Event Report: Women & Democratic Transition in the Middle East
Photo by Mehrunisa Qayyum By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Not all the political and economic policy action on gender has completely escaped to New York for this week’s United Nation’s General Assembly meetings. Yesterday in Washington, DC, September 20, 2011, the Women’s … Continue reading
A Comedian’s Perspective on Political Economy
Dear PITAPOLICY Consumers: Since the PITAPOLICY blog launch three months ago, politics, interests, technology and analysis have been pushed your way regarding the area between Morocco to Pakistan. However, sometimes interests–especially the entertainment and media industry–comment on political economy issues, … Continue reading
