Category Archives: Politics
International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Washington, DC – On Thursday, December 1st, The General Delegation of the PLO to the United States held “International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People” hosted by Ambassador Maen Rasheed Areikat and his wife. Although the … Continue reading
PITAPOLICY Observations: US Senate Holds “Women and the Arab Spring” Hearing
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Note: On Wednesday, November 2nd, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations subcommittee on “International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, Women’s Global Issues held a hearing to discuss the role of women in the Arab Spring … Continue reading
openDemocracy: I’m Not Commitment Phobic; I Got Engaged!
Note: Originally posted on openDemocracy.net, which is an E-zine and discussion forum offering news and opinion articles from established academics and journalists covering current issues in world … Not Commitment Phobic: I Got Engaged One campaigner told me at a … Continue reading
Brookings US Islam Forum Blog Posts PITAPOLICY Consulting Summary
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum & Ramah Kudaimi Note: Originally published by Common Grounds News & Reposted on Brookings US Islamic Forums, Lebanon Daily Star, Morocco Tomorrow, Germany’s Islamiche Zeitung, among a dozen others. Thus, it has been reposted here due to its global … Continue reading
Ambassador Hassouna in Washington, DC
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Note: Original piece published by Aslan Media Group. Supra-national bodies tend to get bogged down in political discussions and controversies. That has certainly been the case with the League of Arab States, which represents the diverse political, … Continue reading
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
National Council on U.S. Arab Relations: Recapping the Arab & US Responses
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Washington, DC-On October 27th and 28th, the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) held its 20th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference, “Dynamics of Recent Events in the Arab World: Framing the Arab and U.S. Responses” at the Ronald … Continue reading
Tunisia’s Election Results
Source: Al Jazeera English Historic win for Al-Nahda, moderate Islamist party in Tunisia that was previously banned…
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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
