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Re-conceptualising Health in Wars and Conflicts: A New Focus on Deprivation and Suffering in the oPt

Re-conceptualising Health in Wars and Conflicts: A New Focus on Deprivation and Suffering in the oPt

by Weeam Hammoudeh

Conflicts pose threats to public health, human security and wellbeing. While more attention tends to focus on the more visible and direct impacts of conflict, such as death, disability and injury, conflicts, especially if prolonged, impact populations and subgroups in important but less visible ways; affecting the very foundations of society and posing threats to human security and […]

August 7th, 2018|Palestine, Research|0 Comments|

Islam and Social Media

Tweet by Dr Mohammed Ibahrine Just as in other regions, countries with a Muslim majority have witnessed a rapid diffusion and adoption of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in recent times. In the Arab World, Facebook is still the leading social networking website with 81,302,064 users. Twitter follows with 5,797,500 users (Arab Social Media Report, 2014). […]

October 28th, 2014|Analysis, Research|0 Comments|

Saudi Arabia: Researching Divine Politics in a Profane World

Last Wednesday, Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed presented her on-going research that she is undertaking as part of her visiting appointment at the MEC. With the research still underway, the meeting was more of a discussion session between fellows and faculty at the centre, which created a very lively and interesting debate on Islamic thought in Saudi Arabia and the wider […]

May 21st, 2014|Research|0 Comments|

Initial reflections from a research trip to the Kurdistan region of Iraq

Tweet Dr Zeynep Kaya, who is currently leading a research project on the role of international actors in enhancing women’s rights in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, has recently returned from her fieldwork in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah. She gives here her first impressions on her research trip. As part of the project, the MEC will be heading to Erbil next […]

May 14th, 2014|Interview, Photography, Reports from the Ground, Research, Uncategorized|2 Comments|

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Yemen’s Negotiated Transition between the Elite and the Street

Yemen’s Negotiated Transition between the Elite and the Street

Tweet by Tobias Thiel After ten months of deliberations, Yemen’s 565-member National Dialogue Conference (NDC) closed its doors on January 25, 2014. The NDC was the flagship of Yemen’s negotiated transition process. Jamal Benomar, the UN Special Adviser for Yemen, widely advertised the transition as a model for averting a Syria-style civil war in the violence-riddled Arabian republic. He pronounced […]

March 3rd, 2014|Analysis, Notes from the Field, Reports from the Ground, Research, Uncategorized|3 Comments|