Monthly Archives: January 2014

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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Role of Entrepreneurship in Building a Better Egypt

  PITAPOLICY is live-blogging “Role of Entrepreneurship in Egypt” event hosted by the Middle East Institute… (Note the focus on technology entrepreneurship discussion, which is more focused on the Information Communication Technology sector.) In Egypt, innovative enterprise development has taken … Continue reading

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“Governance and Stability in Iraq” Remarks by Deputy PM Saleh al-Mutlaq

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the National Defense University (NDU), and the Iraqi American Community Center (IAC) hosts H.E. Mr. Saleh al-Mutlaq, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, and members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives … Continue reading

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Impasse: #US Senate Hearing “#Syria Refugee Crisis” #SyrianRefugees

“Only 31 [Syrian] refugees were allowed into the U.S. in 2013,” said Senator Durbin, who added that none of the Gulf Cooperation Council members have committed to accepting Syrian refugees and that “these countries need to step up as well” … Continue reading

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Town of Kafranbel in Syria Is 2nd Wave of Revolution

Note: On January 7th, the U.S. Senate will hold another hearing on the humanitarian crisis in Syria.   Senator Durbin, (D-IL) will preside as Syrian activists provide testimony.  We are live-blogging and live-tweeting The Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS), which … Continue reading

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Happy 2014 Pitaconsumers: Wrestling with a form of secularism that doesn’t alienate.

Dear Pitaconsumers, Time to start 2014 with some good news, sandwiched by bad news, wrapped up in more good news.  That is definitely not a formula for objective blogging. But, it is tooo easy to note all the worrisome predictions … Continue reading

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