Middle East

Managing Compromise in the Middle East

2016-10-23

The international community undoubtedly has a central role to play in supporting social and economic reform in the middle east

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Leading the Middle East Into the Future

2016-10-14

To ensure the future prosperity of the Middle East, its governments and citizens must ask themselves if new technologies are being designed and adapted to meet real social needs

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ISIS win-win propaganda

2016-10-02

A showdown on ground so symbolic to Islamists might actually play in favor of those opposed to the vision espoused by radical Islamists

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Obama’s Chance for Middle East Peace

2016-09-18

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the lynchpin issue that will determine whether the region’s future will be one of peace and prosperity

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The Middle East Must Lead on Refugees

2016-08-13

In the Middle East, the refugee debate is not nearly as loud, but it is no less passionate

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The Middle East is baking

2016-08-03

More than war even, climate change is making the region uninhabitable

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The Roots of Middle East Mistrust

2016-07-09

Low-trust societies participate disproportionately less in international commerce, and attract less investment

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Reconciling with Sykes-Picot

2016-05-29

Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot aimed to devise a plan that would enable Great Britain and France to avoid a ruinous rivalry in the Middle East

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Mental Health in the Middle East

2016-05-25

Wars and terrorism are stressful. The traumatised have nowhere to turn

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Closing the Middle East’s Education Deficit

2016-05-25

ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are depriving more than 13 million children of an education

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Sykes-Picot, Middle East Underwriter, Dead at 100

2016-05-24

On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Great Britain and France signed a secret pact in London. Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the deal, negotiated by the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot

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