EVENT: On Thursday (11/13), the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics will be hosting a webinar launching Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa, by Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, and Hicham Alaoui. In the context of the fraught relationships between Western aid providers and MENA recipients, the authors suggest innovative, practical approaches for overcoming the chronic limitations—and disappointing results—of assistance aimed at encouraging economic development and political reform in the region.
From Hope to Critique: The Facebook Posts of the April 6th Movement in Egypt: Reflecting on some of the work she did with the support of LRP’s Deborah Gerner Grant for Professional Development, Mariam Alkazemi, associate professor of public relations at Virginia Commonwealth University, shared a short summary of the work she did for her study of social media in the April 6th Youth Movement.
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