Yemenis, from the deposed dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh to the angry street protesters, can all agree on one thing: Their country’s women have amazed the world with their extraordinary work…
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Arab Uprisings
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When you walk into Al Haidari sweet shop in Khaldeh, 20 kilometers south of Beirut, employees will greet you with a smile and free baklawa, but the forced cheer belies…
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As minister of tourism, Fadi Abboud has seen Lebanon through the heyday of visitor arrivals in 2010 to the more barren roads of 2011, as well as the change in…
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I never thought I would say it, but Lebanon was one of the most stable countries in the Middle East this past year. Many commentators and politicians expressed regret that Lebanon…
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While 2011 may yet prove to be a good year for democratic ambitions in the Arab world, it was most certainly not a good one for tourism in Lebanon. Put bluntly,…
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One year ago, I argued that the second wave of corporate governance had arrived at the shores of the Middle East and North Africa. Put succinctly, the first wave was…
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Judging by the long queues at the polling stations, the elections for Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly on October 23 were an enormous success. People of all ages and walks of life,…
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“Yemen is on the verge of a true, deep humanitarian disaster,” were the words late last month of Geert Cappelaere, representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the…
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"Since February 11, Tahrir has been taken to the factories,” says workers’ rights activist and blogger Hossam al-Hamalawy. “The barometer for progress has been [thought of as] how many people…
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A group of middle-aged men lie sprawled on the sidewalk outside a towering building in Egypt’s Nasr City, shading their faces with newspapers. For 15 days these oil and gas…
