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In today’s economy, it is vital that young people learn to fish for themselves rather than wait to be handed fish by their guardians or society. Yet it is even [...]
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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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The focus this month in Future Challenges is on global citizens and migration, and how they are changing the faces of our cities every day. In today’s world [...]
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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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In the village where I'm living you can meet people from different nations. Mostly Slovaks and Hungarians. A few Czechs, Serbs, some Vietnamese and Chinese. Sometimes Gypsies. And also someone [...]
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Migration brings new faces to our cities every day, and takes others away. Successful economies worldwide lure young job-seekers, while many social and economic factors keep (or drive) others home. [...]
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Consistently over the past few months, there have been a slew of Western media articles on what Al Jazeera calls an instance of ‘reverse migration’. Many people who [...]
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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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“There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.” (Richelle Goodrich) It's two [...]
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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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Last Saturday, some Egyptian activists went to demonstrate at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. They demonstrated by drawing arrows on the street pointing to the headquarters and proclaiming, “here lies the [...]
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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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According to the Millennium Declaration of September 2000, governments committed to promoting gender equity and women empowerment to combat poverty, hunger and diseases. They also committed to stimulate sustainable development. Up [...]
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Look at the timeline of events in the Arab Spring and you will see that women have played a huge role in its development. Yet the contribution women make to [...]
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I made a decision this morning, and that is to be very rich. Mind you, I have always wanted to be rich, but this morning I decided on a new [...]
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When the Future Challenges Team put out a call for local views on International Women’s Day, I thought long and hard. The first [...]
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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 [...]
