Monthly Archives: October 2012
The Arab Spring: An Organic Political Movement in the Middle East – [Part II]
On October 11th, PITAPOLICY featured Part I of Whitney Vejvoda’s analysis on the political and economic factors that influenced the Arab Spring. In Part II of this essay, Ms. Vejvoda closely examines MENA Oil Economies & Changes in Labor Structures … Continue reading
Forget #Sandy, It’s All About #TedX Baghdad
Greeeeeeetings Pita-Consumers: For those of you on the Northeast coast of the U.S. PITAPOLICY hopes and prays the best for you as well as the power getting turned back on. Winds are about 38 miles per hour in our neighborhood, … Continue reading
Filed under Interests, Technology
Providing Aid Hurts Recipient Countries’ Local Businesses Too
Do you think the United States should cut off aid to the Middle East? PITAPOLICY Founder Mehrunisa Qayyum explores this issue further, building on her September 25th post Cutting Off Aid to Arab World Hurts U.S. Business, in response to the … Continue reading
PITAPAL Analysis: Talking About Women in Tech=Good Business Part 2
PITAPAL, Chris Schroeder, has wrapped up both his visit of the Middle East and the series of women in the Arab Startup community. Check out the last half below as he describes how the diaspora and cultural experience intersect with … Continue reading
The Arab Spring: An Organic Political Movement in the Middle East – [Part I]
Last week, PITAPOLICY featured an analysis on the relations between Egypt and Iran pre- and post- the Arab Revolution. This week, we continue highlighting political and economic analysis of the Arab Spring. This theme was also highlighted in this September 2012 post on the … Continue reading
Workshops, Kite-flying, & Docs=Youth Team Building @ADInitiative
New York~Again, PITAPOLICY is excited to share what has been presented at the 2nd Annual Envision Arab Summit, which is being held at New York University’s Kimmel Center. If it weren’t for #PITAPALS, Bareeq Barqawi, certain aspects like Like PITAPOLICY … Continue reading
Filed under Interests, Politics, Technology
@ASE Kicks of Envision Arabia, Followed by Nicolas Fayad #EAS12 Update #media
New York @NYU Campus Kimmel Center~Ahmed Shihab Eldin, Huffington Post Live Producer took the stage to kick off the Envision Arabia Summit – #EAS12 if you’re following! PITAPOLICY/Mehrunisa Qayyum will try to “live-blog” upon request of Pitapal, Chris Schroeder. Let’s … Continue reading
#EAS12=Envision Arabia: Society, Science, #Tech, #Law, #Educ, #Econ #ArabDev, Culture, #HumanRights
This weekend PITAPOLICY attends the 2nd Annual Envision Arabia Summit in New York and will be instructing a Economic Development in the Arab World Workshop. Envision is organized by the Arab Development Initiative: a group of thirty students and recent … Continue reading
