Sara Sadek is an affiliated researcher and coordinator at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo. She obtained an MA in Refugee Studies from the University of East London. Since 2005, she has worked on various research projects on Iraqi and Sudanese communities in Egypt, contributing to a report on Iraqis in Egypt and recently producing a paper on challenges of integration for Iraqis in Arab states for the Henry L. Stimson Center’s forthcoming volume Transnational Challenges.
Originally posted July 2010
Originally posted July 2010
Originally posted July 2010
Educational reform from the West has arrived on a grand scale in the Gulf, particularly in higher education. American, Canadian, Australian, and British universities are being established throughout the region. In addition, Western-style methodologies and best-practices are being employed. Although there are considerable benefits to adopting Western models of education, such reform does not come without a price.
Originally posted July 2010
Originally posted July 2010
Originally posted July 2010
… “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. [1]
– Percy Shelley
Podcast 7, Kurdish Issues: Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government in a Changing Middle East. Recorded Feb 23, 2012 at the Atlantic Council.
Podcast 7, Kurdish Issues: Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government in a Changing Middle East. Recorded Feb 23, 2012 at the Atlantic Council.
Podcast 7, Kurdish Issues: Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government in a Changing Middle East. Recorded Feb 23, 2012 at the Atlantic Council.
Podcast 7, Kurdish Issues: Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government in a Changing Middle East. Recorded Feb 23, 2012 at the Atlantic Council.
Podcast 7, Kurdish Issues: Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government in a Changing Middle East. Recorded Feb 23, 2012 at the Atlantic Council.
Originally posted July 2010
In an article in the Fall 2008 issue of The New Atlantic, the Doha-based Egyptian science writer Waleed Al-Shobakky, advanced the proposition that the center of creative initiative in higher education in the Arab world has shifted from the traditionally influential lands of Egypt and the Levant to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Originally posted July 2011
Originally posted June 2011
