Category: News
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Neep, Daniel. “Narrating Crisis, Constructing Policy: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in Syria” (2017)
Prof. Daniel Neep recently published his research on incremental institutional change in post-independence Syria for the journal New Political.…
September 18, 2017
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Partnering for Solutions
CCAS, in partnership with the University of Kurdistan, brought together 40+ researchers this spring to discuss durable solutions to forced displacement in.…
September 15, 2017
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What Post-WWII Schoolchildren Learned about the World
The middle of the twentieth century was a watershed period in history for many reasons, with one of the most significant being the rise of mass education systems across the.…
September 15, 2017
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Education in the Arab World: Measuring Up Or “Upping” Our Measures?
Professor Adely discusses how flawed quality measures often shape our understanding of education in the Middle East and what a closer look at these measures can tell.…
September 15, 2017
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Celebrating the Cultures of the Excluded
Amidst the rising anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, Muslim children in the Washington DC area took a stand this spring in an unconventional way: the…
September 15, 2017
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Rapid Response
On January 26, 2017 President Trump issued the Executive Order (EO) entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” This order was…
September 15, 2017
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The Crisis of Higher Education for Syrian Refugees: Between Relief Work and Strategic Planning
Meeting the educational needs of refugees and displaced people, particularly the need for higher education, is considered one of the greatest humanitarian challenges facing the…
September 15, 2017
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Transforming Futures in Palestine
As a MAAS student in the mid-90s reading Sara Roy’s important book, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development, little could I have imagined that I would one day…
September 15, 2017
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Jebnoun, Noureddine. Tunisia’s National Intelligence: Why “Rogue Elephants” Fail to Reform. (New Academia Publishing, 2017)
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and original data, Noureddine Jebnoun examines the political and security evolution of Tunisia’s national intelligence in the post-independence…
September 14, 2017
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Teacher Workshop and Exhibit Tour: “From Sinbad to the Shabab Oman: A Seafaring Legacy”
This first workshop of the new academic year is a collaboration between the CCAS and the SQCC, and takes up the seafaring legacy of trade and travel in the Indian Ocean and the…
September 12, 2017