Category Archives: Analysis
What Are 5 Innovative Trends in Women’s Economic Equality?
Greetings Pitaconsumers, Apologies for being offline for the last 10 days, the PITAPOLICY sight underwent technical maintenance! Much has happened as we wind up the 2013. On December 8th, we observed the first “Peace Game” simulation at the U.S. Institute … Continue reading
Bad And/Or Good News: TIME Magazine Names General al-Sisi; Egypt’s New Tech Park
Added 12/10/13: What’s really puzzling is that the Egypt’s Defense Minister did not make it to TIME Magazine’s top ten finalists for 2013–a separate selection process that is distinct from last week’s readers’ poll. But two other figures from the … Continue reading
Filed under Analysis, Interests, Technology
Western Sahara: Resolution Between Three, Not Two Parties
PITAPOLICY is excited that its founder, Mehrunisa Qayyum, contributed her first piece to the Atlantic Council’s MENASource Blog. The Atlantic Council is a Washington, DC based think tank that houses the Rafik Hariri Center focusing on the Middle East & … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution: #Iran Breaks Deadlock
Dear Pitaconsumers, Step one in the deadlock with Iran broke last night around 9PM EST as Iran’s Chief Negotiator, Javed Zarif, shared an historic tweet: @JZarif “We have reached and agreement.” #Iran #Irantalks”. World powers by way of the … Continue reading
Filed under Analysis, Interests, Politics, Technology
Middle East Institute Annual Conference: Managing Transition, Containing Conflict but #NODrones
“You can’t have peace in #Syria without #Iran in negotiations.”~Mohsen Milani Middle East Institute 67th Annual Conference: Managing Transition, Containing Conflict From November 14th to 15th, the Middle East Institute held its 67th annual conference. To kick off the MEI … Continue reading
Colbert Interviews Trita Parsi, Iran Negotiations Expert: Reroll the Dice
PITAConsumers–you know how much PITAPOLICY is a fan of The Colbert Report! Last night, we couldn’t help but “ruminate” and share thoughts on the book mentioned in Parsi’s interview: “A Single Roll of the Dice”. (Note how ruminate probably comes from … Continue reading
“I’m not an employee…I’m a Political Activist.”~Deputy PM for Economic Affairs #Syria #QadriJamil #Defection
We’ve counted 403 news stories about Bashar Al Assad’s sack of his senior official, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Qadri Jamil, yesterday. This came after Jamil met with American official in Geneva. Jamil is a Russian educated economist. Lately, … Continue reading
Gini Out of the Bottle: How Dangerous Is Wealth Inequality to Democracy?
The “Gini is out of the bottle” as we grossly joked last week. (We couldn’t help but insert a pun about the Gini Coefficient.) Gini Coefficient measures the level of wealth distribution…the higher the number, the higher the inequality … Continue reading
National Council on US-Arab Relations Conference: Strengths, Weaknesses, & Opportunities #NavigatingUSArabRelations
“Sticks are becoming more lethalized whereas our carrots (soft power) less tasty-possibly rotting.”~Sharpe From Tuesday October 22nd to October 23rd, the National Council on U.S. – Arab Relations held its annual conference. This year’s title theme: “Strengths, Weaknesses, & Opportunities”. … Continue reading
