More Flexibility with Foreign Words Might Help Arabic Flourish
Using foreign terms in Arabic does not weaken or devalue it, a scholar argues, but rather allows it to develop and keep pace with the modern world.
Making Prisons Visible: The Work of the MENA Prison Forum
The MENA Prison Forum, launched in 2018, researches and documents prisons and prisoners’ experiences across the region. Its resources include art, literature, film and testimonies.
Making Interdisciplinary Research Actually Happen
Scientists must work together across disciplinary silos to create a better future for the world, the authors say.
10 Books, 10 Years Later: Literature After the ‘Arab Spring’
A sampling of how writers from the Middle East and North Africa responded to the chaos and frustrations of the “Arab Spring” uprisings.
Digital Mental Health Tools Increase Access but Need More Study
Digital technologies can help overcome stigmas about mental health issues and improve access to care, but challenges for researchers remain, three scientists in Qatar argue.
Why Business Schools Need to Teach Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is advancing at lightning speed, with important implications for business and society. Business schools need to do a better job of preparing students for it.
How ‘Supportive Disruption’ Could Transform Arab Higher Education
In his new book, John Waterbury proposes a series of reforms that could transform educational systems in the Middle East and North Africa.
How to Use Pre-Recorded Lectures and Video Effectively: Faculty Insights
Faculty members at the American University in Cairo share strategies they’ve found effective.
Collection Brings Pioneering Iraqi Poet to New Audiences
Though considered “one of the most significant Arab writers of the twentieth century,” Nazik al-Mala’ika was little known in English. A new bilingual edition creates a fuller portrait of her work.
Supportive Innovation: A Model for Change in Arab Higher Education
After long scholarly and administrative experience in the Arab region and an intense study of Arab higher education, a political scientist proposes a way forward.
