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Sustainable Development and the Built Environment in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Middle East Institute
  • Analysis
  • Sustainable Development and the Built Environment in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities

    Originally posted February 2011

    In the Western context, notions of sustainable development often refer to the need to adjust existing economic models in order to maintain better balances between economic growth and social needs, while protecting local ecologies and reducing the negative impact of growth on the global environment.

    Egypt's Troubled Transition
  • Video
  • Egypt's Troubled Transition

    Dr. Makram-Ebeid, along with ten other liberal and leftists members, recently resigned from Egypt's Constituent Assembly in protest over its Islamist majority, leaving only five women and five Christians remaining in the assembly. With the transition process in turmoil, a diverse coalition of Egyptian generals, liberals, bureaucrats, and judges are turning to the courts to attempt to diversify the composition of the Constituent Assembly, which is currently almost entirely dominated by Islamists – both Salafists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

    May 1, 2012

    Egypt's Troubled Transition
    Middle East Institute
  • Podcast
  • Egypt's Troubled Transition

    MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid

    May 1, 2012

    Egypt's Troubled Transition
    Middle East Institute
  • Podcast
  • Egypt's Troubled Transition

    MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid

    May 1, 2012

    Egypt's Troubled Transition
    Middle East Institute
  • Podcast
  • Egypt's Troubled Transition

    MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid

    May 1, 2012

    Egypt's Troubled Transition
    Middle East Institute
  • Podcast
  • Egypt's Troubled Transition

    MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid

    May 1, 2012

    Egypt's Troubled Transition
    Middle East Institute
  • Podcast
  • Egypt's Troubled Transition

    MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid

    May 1, 2012

    Saudi Women in a Time of Change
  • Video
  • Saudi Women in a Time of Change

    The Middle East Institute is pleased to host poet, writer and activist Nimah Nawwab for a conversation about Saudi women in an era of unprecedented change in the Middle East. Despite the many advances of the Arab Spring, the region continues to face mounting social, political, and economic challenges. In Nawwab's native Saudi Arabia, these challenges form the basis for her art and activism.

    April 27, 2012

    Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Upsrisings
  • Video
  • Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Upsrisings

    What are some of the fundamental socio-economic features they all share and what steps must they take if their economies are to enjoy sustained growth in the medium to long term? Dr. Toufic Gaspard, the economic adviser to Lebanon's minister of finance, will focus on Arab economies in Egypt and the Levant to examine how to solve the dominant regional problems of unemployment and poor productivity with the goal of establishing social and political stability.

    April 27, 2012