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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – AUGUST 30 2012
Africa and Middle East Syria delegate walks out of Summit Syria’s delegate has walked out of a Non-aligned Movement summit after comments made by Egypt’s incumbent President, Mohammad Mursi. During the summit Mr Mursi told ...
Algeria and the Islamic Movement: a Problem of Exclusion, Fundamentalism, and Memory
ON APRIL 18th, the results of the Algerian presidential elections were announced: Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been elected Algeria’s President for a fourth consecutive term, despite his advanced age and feeble health. Bouteflika...
India’s Armed Crackdown On Student Protesters
The state of West Bengal, India, which conjures up images of art, music, quietude, literary greats like Rabindranath Tagore, and the historic site of early Indian nationalism, is widely regarded as a peaceful place by many Indi...
All That Glitters: Tunisian Democratic Exception?
Media coverage of the MENA region is plagued by blanket statements and superficial analyses. International news outlets reserve even the right to name events. The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is an example of a de facto ...
WATCH: Are Schools Killing Creativity?
“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education” In the TED talk below, Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an...
Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat
It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...
