by Heba Morayef, Middle East Research and Information Project, Spring 2015 Over five tumultuous years in Egypt, the independent human rights community moved from a fairly parochial role chipping away at the Mubarak regime’s legitimacy, one torture case at a time, to media stardom in 2011, and from fielding a presidential candidate, [...]

published by UN News Centre on April 20, 2015 The United Nations is set to host at its New York Headquarters a meeting bringing together the Organization's Member States with faith leaders to discuss ways to promote tolerance and reconciliation, as well as to address the challenges of countering radicalization and extremism. [...]

By James E. Cartwright and Vladimir Dvorkin, April 19, 2015, published in The New York Times We find ourselves in an increasingly risky strategic environment. The Ukrainian crisis has threatened the stability of relations between Russia and the West, including the nuclear dimension — as became apparent last month when [...]

By Rotary Voices staff, April 15, 2015, published in Rotary Voices The Rotary “Flame” arrived at RI World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, on Tuesday, 14 April, on its journey from India to São Paulo, Brazil, site of the 2015 Rotary International Convention in June. The flame was launched in [...]

An ALLMEP update on building Middle East cooperation, coexistence, and peace. April, 14th 2015 Next week, ALLMEP will be holding a Congressional briefing for its member, the Near East Foundation on their groundbreaking program, 'Olive Oil without Borders.' Please find the invite for the event below. The Alliance for Middle East [...]

By Stephen Zunes and Noor Al-Haidary, April 11, 2015, published in OpenDemocracy While media coverage of the tragic situation unfolding in Yemen in recent months has focused on armed clashes and other violence, there has also been widespread and ongoing nonviolent civil resistance employed by a number of different actors. [...]