Category Archives: Interests
MENA + Social Good Aims to Empower Arab World on Diplomatic Pouch
Note: The original version of this article by Mehrunisa Qayyum appeared on Diplomatic Pouch, produced by The Washington Diplomat (@DiplomatNews). On November 4th, Al Mubadarah (Arab Empowerment Initiative) went global with its purpose: to engage Arab Diaspora on every topic … Continue reading
Live-Blog: “Arab Spring or Arab Autumn: Women’s Political Participation in the Arab Uprisings and Beyond”
PITAPOLICY Summarizes: The Wilson Center Middle East Program was the first in Washington, DC to convene a discussion on women in the Middle East and North Africa region, shared its Program Director, Haleh Esfandiari. The panel debated to what extent … Continue reading
Impasse: #US Senate Hearing “#Syria Refugee Crisis” #SyrianRefugees
“Only 31 [Syrian] refugees were allowed into the U.S. in 2013,” said Senator Durbin, who added that none of the Gulf Cooperation Council members have committed to accepting Syrian refugees and that “these countries need to step up as well” … Continue reading
Town of Kafranbel in Syria Is 2nd Wave of Revolution
Note: On January 7th, the U.S. Senate will hold another hearing on the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Senator Durbin, (D-IL) will preside as Syrian activists provide testimony. We are live-blogging and live-tweeting The Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS), which … Continue reading
Happy 2014 Pitaconsumers: Wrestling with a form of secularism that doesn’t alienate.
Dear Pitaconsumers, Time to start 2014 with some good news, sandwiched by bad news, wrapped up in more good news. That is definitely not a formula for objective blogging. But, it is tooo easy to note all the worrisome predictions … Continue reading
Bad And/Or Good News: TIME Magazine Names General al-Sisi; Egypt’s New Tech Park
Added 12/10/13: What’s really puzzling is that the Egypt’s Defense Minister did not make it to TIME Magazine’s top ten finalists for 2013–a separate selection process that is distinct from last week’s readers’ poll. But two other figures from the … Continue reading
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Forbes Middle East’s Top 50 Influential Women Is From Syria
Originally Interviewed for Oryx Premium by Mehrunisa Qayyum, Founder of PITAPOLICY Consulting & Blog Forbes Middle East’s Top 50 Influential Women Is From Syria Published for Qatar Airways Oryx Premium magazine What does one of the Forbes Middle East Top … Continue reading
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Conflict Resolution: #Iran Breaks Deadlock
Dear Pitaconsumers, Step one in the deadlock with Iran broke last night around 9PM EST as Iran’s Chief Negotiator, Javed Zarif, shared an historic tweet: @JZarif “We have reached and agreement.” #Iran #Irantalks”. World powers by way of the … Continue reading
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Middle East Institute Annual Conference: Managing Transition, Containing Conflict but #NODrones
“You can’t have peace in #Syria without #Iran in negotiations.”~Mohsen Milani Middle East Institute 67th Annual Conference: Managing Transition, Containing Conflict From November 14th to 15th, the Middle East Institute held its 67th annual conference. To kick off the MEI … Continue reading
Colbert Interviews Trita Parsi, Iran Negotiations Expert: Reroll the Dice
PITAConsumers–you know how much PITAPOLICY is a fan of The Colbert Report! Last night, we couldn’t help but “ruminate” and share thoughts on the book mentioned in Parsi’s interview: “A Single Roll of the Dice”. (Note how ruminate probably comes from … Continue reading
