Egyptian 2011 Revolution: Euphoria, Then Reality
This article was co-authored with Dr. Morad Abou-Sabe’, President of the Arab American League of Voters of New Jersey. CNN’s Ivan Watson talks to John King from Cairo about his exclusive interview with...
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Social Movements’ Friend and Foe, From Wall Street to Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square, February 9, 2011. Photo source. This article was co-authored with Jessica Wyndham, a human rights lawyer. As we mark Human Rights Day 2011 on December 10, it is impossible to ignore a...
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An Intellectual Threat in Bahrain?
Photo source. Earlier I wrote a post about Prof. Al-Singace, a Bahraini engineer sentenced to life in prison, forced to appeal on September 11. Sadly, another example has emerged of the denial of due...
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New Anthrax Scare in Pakistan
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows splenic tissue from a monkey with inhalational anthrax; featured are rod-shaped bacilli (yellow) and an erythrocyte (red) Credit: Arthur Friedlander A...
View ArticleWhat ever happened to Ndugu?
To me, Ndugu, the little Tanzanian boy, embodies potential. Now he would be a teenager. What ever happened to Ndugu? He is a fictional character in the wonderful film “About Schmidt,” the little boy...
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Mindful Elephants Don’t Stomp on Grass
Photo source. “There’s an African saying: When the elephants fight, the grass suffers.” Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim on the greatest challenge in global health, in a recent interview with...
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Global Hunger Games
Hunger Games – World Food Programme. Hunger Games portrays a grim future in which the “bottom 99%” must ration their food to reduce the chance that their children will be sent as “tributes” to compete...
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Five Dinners with President Ahmadinejad
Dr. Jim Walsh The imagination reels. Five dinners with Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. What would you discuss? What would be your top questions? MIT alumnus Dr. Jim Walsh did just that, and will...
View ArticleTaking a Bite from the Poisoned Apple
This post was co-authored by Natasha Bahrami, a foreign policy researcher, and Ali Arab, Ph.D., an assistant professor of statistics at Georgetown University. Last month, a young American woman was...
View ArticleAcademic Warfare?
This post was co-authored by Ali Arab, Ph.D., an assistant professor of statistics at Georgetown University. We are living in a global society driven by innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship....
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