By Mimi Kirk
Earlier this month the Middle East Institute was honored to host a one-day event with Mr. Rami Khouri and Professor Karim Makdisi, Director and Associate Director, respectively, of the Issam Fares Institute of the American University of Beirut. Dr. Makdisi, along with MEI’s Drs. Peter Sluglett, Michael Hudson, and Matthew Weiss, [...]
By Adeel Malik and Bassem Awadallah
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If the latest Arab awakening was about jobs and justice, then political reforms, unless accompanied by a leveling of the economic playing field, are unlikely to be sufficient on their own. The latent demographic pressures across the Arab world and the resulting youth unemployment [...]
Egyptians took to the streets in massive numbers for the January 25 anniversary of Egypt’s Police Day, the day the protests that would topple President Hosni Mubarak 18 days later began. This January, protests often focused on expelling SCAF, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took control after Mubarak’s ouster and has ruled [...]
Mr. Gustav Boëthius presented his research findings at MEI on Friday, January 6 in a presentation entitled “A Quiet Realignment: The Impact of the 2011 Popular Unrest in the Gulf on Southeast Asia’s Energy Arrangements.”
Boëthius noted that Asia is the most reliable long-term market for Middle East energy (particularly that of the Gulf), and would [...]
By Adeel Malik and Bassem Awadallah
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After emergency laws are lifted, constitutions are drafted, and elections are held, policymakers in the Middle East will be faced with a tough practical challenge: how to create economic opportunities for the region’s teeming millions? Arab revolutions had a clear economic underpinning: they [...]
Gustav Boëthius, an MEI Researcher, published an article in Singapore’s Straits Times today entitled “Springtime for Singapore Investment in Gulf Countries.” Because the GCC countries are diversifying their economies (due to the fact that hydrocarbon exports are not sustainable) as well as looking to provide private sector jobs for an increasing number of unemployed youth, [...]
Last week, the Middle East Institute held a “breaking news dialogue” on North Africa and the Arab Spring. Called “The Arab Uprisings in North Africa: More Dominoes to Fall?” the event featured Dr. Clement Henry, Chair of the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo and Dr. Robert Parks, Director of the Centre [...]
Notes from the ASAN Institute for Policy Studies Middle East Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 6 November 2011
By Michael C. Hudson
Outside the futuristic building housing Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies this past weekend it was a glorious sunny fall day, the trees beginning to shed their golden leaves; but inside, where a conference had been convened to [...]
