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In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the [...]
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Most of the 5 million Palestinians are refugees. More than two million live in Western Europe and North America. They left Palestine and the refugee camps where they were denied [...]
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Out of the one and a half million Syrians living in Egypt, more than 300,000 have recently come here seeking a safe haven from the [...]
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Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and [...]
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The Nile: There Won’t Be Enough for Everybody Is the post-revolution change in Egyptian leadership bringing about a shift in foreign policy towards the nations of the Nile Basin? The Nile River [...]
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In a recent interview with Arthur Levi - former head of the World Bank’s private sector arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Europe. He stated: The key to [...]
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) established in 1975 was formed to to facilitate a common socio-economic [...]
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Nelly Ali sometimes carries a magic wand in her bag. She uses Twitter to fundraise for clothes for those kids (Cairo street children and mothers). She's [...]
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There she was, sitting in a sweltering sitting room in Cairo, her scarred face haloed by her Islamic headscarf, her pregnant belly pushing out a bit, her 18-year-old hands resting [...]
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One of the most widely-heralded developments of recent decades has been the growing participation of women in the workforce. In the developing [...]
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World over, women have always worked. But most of their work has been unrewarded. Yet, women too contribute to economic growth. In Uganda, women work as smallholder farmers, school [...]
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Migrant workers' remittances across the world are receiving special attention due to the increase in movement of people resulting from globalisation. The money sent home by the migrant workers is another [...]
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In light of the Great Land Rush, that the Lead Article alludes to, smaller stories are often overshadowed. The narrative often includes players such as multinational corporations, governments, local [...]
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Migrant workers' remittances across the world are receiving special attention due to the increase in movement of people resulting from globalization. The money sent home [...]
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In the year 2005, Africa’s youth unemployment was at 21 percent, much higher than the world average of 14.4 percent and second only to the [...]
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World-renowned linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky spoke to 1000 Egyptians at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on 23 October in a lecture entitled “Emerging World [...]
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Visiting a slum in Kenya was like stepping into another world, from a humongous five star hotel to crowded, dusty streets. Everything in less than 10 minutes. Being honest, this [...]
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In 2010, the prevalence rate of tuberculosis in North Korea was 399 per 100,000 people. This is alarming given that Ghana, another developing country with the same population of 24 [...]
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Is peace between individuals and societies possible, or is conflict simply a part of human nature? Does it differ from culture to culture, religion to religion, nation to [...]
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Graffiti has flourished with the onset of Arab revolutions, recording the ebb and flow of uprising across city walls in inspiring murals that mimic the triumphs and disappointments in a [...]
