Read DI Faculty Affiliate Asim Khwaja's new working paper "Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering" here.
Upcoming Events
- Our first Fellows' Brown Bag will be on October 17, 2008 DI Fellow Rasmus Bertelsen will discuss the Soft Power of American and French universities in the Middle East.
- On November 5, 2008, DI Fellow Marwa Farag will give a talk on the nursing shortage in Egypt.
- Iran, the UAE and the Financial War on Terror with Ibrahim Warde, Tufts University, November 12, 2008
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
October 1, 2008
"The Strange Failures of 'The Global War on Terror'"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"Something is very wrong if the United States and allies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a global war on terror, but the main terror group targeted continues to operate, spawns many imitators and allies, and in most parts of the world is seen either to be holding its own against the United States or maintaining considerable public support or sympathy."
AP Photo
September 29, 2008
"Trouble In Paradise – The Widening Gulf Gas Deficit"
Middle East Economic Survey
By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
DI Fellow Justin Dargin addresses the gas shortage in the Gulf in this op-ed.
Joel Carillet
September 29, 2008
"Let the Quartet Die"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"The agencies -- including Oxfam, Save the Children, Care, Christian Aid and World Vision -- said that in five of the ten main areas the Quartet had identified to improve Palestinians' daily life conditions, the situation has actually deteriorated. The situation also has worsened, rather than improved, for most Palestinians since the Annapolis peace process was launched last November. It added that the Quartet has not held Israel accountable for continuing to build settlements on occupied land, and that travel restrictions on Palestinians has also increased."
May, 2008
Generative Infrastructural Urbanism in Dubai
By Stephen J. Ramos, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In a policy brief published by the Dubai School of Government in May 2008, DI fellow Stephen Ramos gives his recommendations on how the most recent round of infrastructure planning in Dubai will spatially impact the city's form and functionality, and how the
Emirate can best prepare for these changes.
AP Photo
September 24, 2008
"Tzipi Livni"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"Her challenge is very similar to the one that her father faced in 1938 when he joined the Irgun underground in Palestine: How to safeguard a Zionist homeland and state for Jews, in a land that had been majority owned and populated by Palestinian Arabs?"
Yehuda Boltshauser
September 22, 2008
"Thirty Years of Peacemaking"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"The peace-making legacy of Camp David and Oslo remains thin, but real. It is certain that Arabs and Israelis, with assorted eternal mediators, will try again to negotiate permanent peace agreements, perhaps starting as early as next spring."
AP Photo
September 17, 2008
"Why Has Al-Qaeda Lasted 20 Years?"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"Much debate swirls around the condition and status of Al-Qaeda these days, which has clearly suffered operational setbacks with the loss of its Afghan bases, but seems to have regrouped in the northwestern frontier areas of Pakistan where it has widespread support among Taliban-friendly communities. While Al-Qaeda has been disrupted, other similar, smaller Salafist militant groups have sprung to life in Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon, Yemen and Algeria."
Eva Serraberra
September 15, 2008
"The Tragic Failure of Arab Moderates"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"It is worthwhile viewing George W. Bush's presidency from a different perspective than America's performance abroad, for example by reviewing the efforts and fate of those around the world who partnered with Washington..."
AP Photo
September 10, 2008
"Intemperance Keeps Terrorism Alive"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"Terrorism is a symptom of other ailments and distortions, and a tool that fanatics use to express themselves and change conditions in society. It is not an ideology that springs out of purely religious milieus. It can be defeated and eliminated only if its underlying causes are recognized and seriously addressed."
