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A Better Basra – Five Years On
3 November marks five years since CommGap writer Caroline Jaine was evacuated from the Iraqi city of Basra. In 2006 she was heading Press & Public affairs at the British Embassy Office, during...
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#8: Media and Policy Makers Need to Connect to Online "Influentials"
Our Top Ten Blog Posts by Readership in 2011Originally published on September 6, 2011Most of those who have been riveted to the breaking news in North Africa and the Middle East during the so-called...
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#6: The Arab Spring: Welcome to the Explanation Olympics
Our Top Ten Blog Posts by Readership in 2011Originally published on March 3, 2011Is it possible to 'technocrat-ize' a revolution that is still roaring? The Arab Spring has been a spectacular surprise...
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#3: It's About Dignity and Poverty, Not About Facebook
Our Top Ten Blog Posts by Readership in 2011Originally published on February 8, 2011Frank Rich, op-ed columnist at the New York Times, made a very important point this week: Revolutions are not about...
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Morocco: When Governance, Transparency, Integrity, Accountability, & Public...
This post originally appeared on Voices & Views: Middle East & North AfricaAlthough many events from the Middle East and North Africa region have enjoyed large press coverage and headlines, one...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Freedom HouseFreedom in the World 2012: The Arab Uprisings and Their Global Repercussions"The...
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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Different Take on AfricaGood Governance vs. collective action"It’s time for donors to get out of...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Integrilicious A Working Definition of "Open Government""I’ve been spending a non-trivial amount of...
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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.International IDEADo Accountability Mechanisms in Safety Nets Improve Access to Social Services? The...
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What a Difference Political Culture Makes
While democracy is developing and strengthening in more and more countries across the world, there may be some lessons to learn from older, established democracies. Democracy does not equal democracy –...
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Twitter vs. Facebook: Bringing Transparency to the Middle East
Think about it:Twitter limits all "conversations" to 140 wordsTwitter allows privacy whereas Facebook is based on discovery of relationshipsTwitter relationships can be one way, the way real...
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Of Protests, Politics, and Policies
The recent massive streets protests against the brutal and deadly assault on a young woman in a private bus in India capital, New Delhi, have been likened to the Arab Spring of India, a definitive...
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A Better Baghdad?
This morning I tapped “Baghdad News” into Google and over half of the first 40 results were about bombing and violence. A further 12% of results were political analysis (mostly about bombing and...
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Building the “Iraqi Media” – A Book Review
Ten years after Iraq was declared as liberated, many are reflecting on how Iraq presents itself to the world today. Our mediatised view of the country is one rife with renewed sectarian divide, and as...
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Quote of the Week: Nawal El Saadawi
"Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible."-- Nawal El Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist,...
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Look Who Has a Megaphone!
In an interview on TN TV Channel, Argentina in November 2013 Pope Francis said that, “Today we are living in an unjust international system in which ‘King Money’ is at the center.” He continued, “It is...
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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Most Of What We Need For Smart Cities Already Exists Forbes The compelling thing about the emerging...
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Media (R)evolutions: Attitudes and Behaviors of MENA Internet Users
New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will...
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New Study Offers Us Fresh Insights into the Attitudes and Behaviors of Online...
Damian Radcliffe outlines a new report from Qatar’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology on internet behaviors in the Middle East. To read the full report, click here. Qatar’s Ministry...
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What Happens when 20 Middle East Decision Makers Discuss Theories of Change?
My first job after returning from holiday (disaster tourism in Northern Ireland – don’t ask) was to speak on Theories of Change to a really interesting group – ‘building a rule of law leadership...
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