Community Radio Gives Voice to Migrants Far From Home
Programs offer practical information, like how to navigate bureaucracy, but also give refugees a place to share experiences and connect with others.
How Universities Help Nations Rebuild After War
Using case studies from around the world, a new book highlights the contributions of higher education to post-conflict recovery efforts.
An Increasingly Popular Cultural Lens: Arabic Literature
A researcher finds that more professors are teaching Arabic literature in translation, in courses sprinkled around the world. The next step, she says, is for the teachers to learn from each other.
Portal Gives Researchers More Public Exposure
A new project is building an open archive of research projects in the Arab region, to make that knowledge more available to the public.
Synaps Seeks to Be a Lab for Ideas in Beirut
The young organization mentors researchers and publishes articles that mix data, social science and analysis.
Artist Collects Stories From the Hearts of Syrians
A project that publishes the true stories of ordinary Syrians in a time of displacement and civil war creates a people’s history.
For Doctors in Training, a Course on Phoenician
A medical school in Beirut offers an elective that explores the ancient language’s connection to modern Lebanon.
An Online Archive of the Egyptian Revolution
Activists have published nearly a thousand hours of unedited footage of the Egyptian uprising on a new website.
2017: The Arab World in Books
A sampling of literary and scholarly works from across the region that we have enjoyed over the past year.
University Press Thrives On New Arabic Fiction
American University in Cairo Press weathers the post-Mubarak era, focusing on scholarly books and new Arabic writing.
