Author Archives: Mehrunisa

About Mehrunisa

Mehrunisa Qayyum is the founder of PITAPOLICY Consulting & Blog. PITAPOLICY Blog is listed on Muftah.Org. As @PITAPOLICY she tweets about politics, interests, technology and analysis in the "pita-consuming" region and contributes to the Huffington Post Blog, A Better People, and Triple Pundit. Regarding international affairs and trade issues, she worked at the United States’ Government Accountability Office for four years. Prior to that, she earned her MPP and Certificate in Contemporary Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in both Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Her recent writing experiences include analytical pieces on civil society, transparency & governance, human rights, political economy of Syria, and social media forums' impact. She enjoys watching the Colbert Report in her free time.
April 22, 2012

Is the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt Right to Contest the IMF Loan?

PITAPOLICY has noted the debate involving the “Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt”, which is actively contesting the IMF’s $3.2 billion dollar loan to Egypt scheduled to finalize by end of of Sunday.  PITA-consumers: what are your thoughts? On a … Continue reading →

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April 22, 2012

Please Retweet: We come in #Peace! #Listening #Seriously

PITAPOLICY is attending the 2012 Spring World Bank & IMF meetings and is grateful for being asked to participate in the Arab American Institute’s Emerging Leaders Training Day, April 19th–more on that in a future post. Observations of the IMF … Continue reading →

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April 18, 2012

Arab American Female POV: Post-Recession Business Model

PITA-Consumers, as PITAPOLICY covers and learns about the public and “third sector” practices from the World Bank & IMF Spring meeting this week, the private sector has not been forgotten!  PITAPOLICY contributors come from government, non-profit, and the private sectors.  … Continue reading →

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April 15, 2012

Media on MENA Part 2: Media Freedom

#NAAPMM and Other PITA-Consuming Comments By: Mehrunisa Qayyum Media freedom varies across the pita-consuming region due to a) political culture (thanks Dr. Samer Shehata for providing great background on this subject during my Georgetown days); b) role of NGOs, c) … Continue reading →

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April 11, 2012

End of Pluralism: Where Does Syria Stand?

Today from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST, PITAPOLICY Consulting will be livetweeting from the US House of Representatives to cover the Arab American Institute’s briefing: “The End of Pluralism: Religion & Conflict in the Middle East”. Pita-consumers are invited … Continue reading →

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April 4, 2012

World trade: Redrawing the map

PITAPOLICY has concluded March with a technology review of the Arab Net Summit. During the entire month, we reviewed 1) where innovation is most prominent in the MENA region; 2) how women are somewhat represented in Science, Technology, Engineering & … Continue reading →

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April 2, 2012

Business in Beirut

PITAPOLICY has gained a new appreciation for technology–not simply because of attending the Annual ArabNet Summit. Although the Lebanese War lasted until 2006, Lebanon’s capital has drastically undertaken measures to boost its economy–notwithstanding the significant re-investment of the Lebanese Diaspora … Continue reading →

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March 28, 2012

Winner of ArabNet Digital Summit & Other PITAPOLICY Observations

“Internet has democratized the concept of content and distribution.” ~Omar Christidis, Founder of the ArabNet Digital Summit On Tuesday, March 27 2012, ArabNet Digital Summit convened over 200 MENA professionals to kick off the first of the Developer Days. Before … Continue reading →

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March 25, 2012

PITAPOLICY Attending Arab Net Summit

Between March 27th-31st of this week, PITAPOLICY Consulting will be covering MENA technology and entrepreneur issues at the Arab Net Summit in Beirut. Since MENA is revitalizing its technology and entrepreneurship course in global affairs, PITAPOLICY Consulting looks forward to … Continue reading →

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March 21, 2012

Response to #MENA Women in STEM

PITAPOLICY continues its focus on the “T” in PITA (Technology) Last week, PITAPOLICY posted Daniel Armanios’s piece, which broke down the problem of Technology Use & Knowledge Sharing in the science and diplomacy spheres. In the first week, PITAPOLICY contributor, … Continue reading →

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