Category Archives: Technology
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
Filed under Interests, Technology
PITAPAL Analysis: Talking About Women in Tech=Good Business Part 2
PITAPAL, Chris Schroeder, has wrapped up both his visit of the Middle East and the series of women in the Arab Startup community. Check out the last half below as he describes how the diaspora and cultural experience intersect with … Continue reading
Workshops, Kite-flying, & Docs=Youth Team Building @ADInitiative
New York~Again, PITAPOLICY is excited to share what has been presented at the 2nd Annual Envision Arab Summit, which is being held at New York University’s Kimmel Center. If it weren’t for #PITAPALS, Bareeq Barqawi, certain aspects like Like PITAPOLICY … Continue reading
Filed under Interests, Politics, Technology
@ASE Kicks of Envision Arabia, Followed by Nicolas Fayad #EAS12 Update #media
New York @NYU Campus Kimmel Center~Ahmed Shihab Eldin, Huffington Post Live Producer took the stage to kick off the Envision Arabia Summit – #EAS12 if you’re following! PITAPOLICY/Mehrunisa Qayyum will try to “live-blog” upon request of Pitapal, Chris Schroeder. Let’s … Continue reading
#EAS12=Envision Arabia: Society, Science, #Tech, #Law, #Educ, #Econ #ArabDev, Culture, #HumanRights
This weekend PITAPOLICY attends the 2nd Annual Envision Arabia Summit in New York and will be instructing a Economic Development in the Arab World Workshop. Envision is organized by the Arab Development Initiative: a group of thirty students and recent … Continue reading
PITAPAL Analysis: Talking about Arab Women in Tech=Good Business
Talking about the tech sector might be a niche topic — dare we say treading ‘tech geek’ territory. Talking about women might be hinting at feminism. Combining the two topics is just good business. PITAPOLICY is excited to post the … Continue reading
Filed under Interests, Technology
#MENAsocent: First DC-MENA Tweetup=#Success
Press Release PITAPOLICY Launched First DC-MENA Tweetup Washington, DC~Happy Birthday USA! Speaking of pride and independence: on Thursday, June 28th, PITAPOLICY Consulting & the Arab American Institute co-hosted the first Middle East & North Africa region tweetup in Washington, DC. … 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
#MENASOCENT: Join DC’s First MENA Tweetup
Greetings Pita-consumers! For those of you in the Washington, DC area, we would like to announce the first MENA Tweetup in the DC area on Thursday, June 28th. The Arab American Institute (AAI) has graciously offered to co-host this event … Continue reading
Huffington Post: Women in Middle East/North Africa Are Underrepresented in Science and Technology Professions
PITAPOLICY is very excited to contribute to other outlets and learn from others. On that note, this week’s piece is Mehrunisa Qayyum’s first Huffington Post Blog piece. Mehrunisa’s Huffington Post Blogger profile is listed here. Please note that this week’s … Continue reading
