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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought – June 17
Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 5:33 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
For 2014 on this day, held under UN auspices, the chosen theme is the incorporation of sustainable land management policies and practices into our collective response to climate change. More >>
World Environment Day - June 5th
Friday, 6 June 2014, 4:23 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
World Environment Day is held annually on June 5th under UN auspices to highlight a particular area of environmental concern. The focus this year is on the unique challenges facing the world’s small islands in their battle with rising ocean levels ... More >>
Obama’s ‘Enough’ Moment in the Middle East
Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 12:23 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
Just as in 2008 when Barack Obama verbalized with a yell of “enough” what was echoing in the hearts of millions of Americans as the nation was engaged in two raging wars and caught in a freefalling economy, the Israelis and Palestinians desperately ... More >>
The Primacy of Human Development in the Arab Spring
Friday, 3 August 2012, 1:13 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
The durability of national governments in the Middle East and North Africa is now determined by the extent to which leaders can expeditiously and effectively address the primary cause of the Arab Spring: shameful levels of underdevelopment of the ... More >>
Egypt’s Second Grassroots Resurgence
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 12:20 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
The Egyptian people must still yet overturn an overbearing force that has marginalized them for generations: top-down government control of budgets and local development. Egypt’s central government administration consumes the far majority of public resources, ... More >>
Morocco’s Vision Forward
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 10:04 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
The fatal terrorist bombing of a tourist cafe in Marrakech that took the lives of 16 people makes it more urgent for Morocco to implement its vision, which is a new social contract. In a rapidly transforming North Africa and Middle East whose people ... More >>
Morocco: Uniting Democracy-Building and Sustainability
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 12:43 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
With socio-revolutionary movements in North Africa and the Middle East and governments in the region seeking to identify and implement viable models for political reform and development, Morocco is fortunate to have been raising public awareness during ... More >>
Obama on Race: Process over Product
Monday, 3 August 2009, 10:01 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
What was revealed about President Barack Obama’s outlook on racial issues as he dealt with the controversy over the arrest of Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.? Interestingly, the principle view shown by the President was also ... More >>
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir: Strategic Aid in Pakistan
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 3:23 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
Depending on how and for what international aid is administered in Pakistan, the hearts and minds of its people, and which of the opposing forces they collaborate with, hang in the balance. Recent polls indicate that the majority of Pakistanis ... More >>
