Boko Haram: A Prognosis
Rice faculty scholar David Cook explores the threat that the Boko Haram, a Salafi-jihadi Muslim group from northeastern Nigeria, poses to U.S. interests in Africa.
David Cook December 16, 2011
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Bank-insured RoSCA for Microfinance: Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages
By Mahmoud El-Gamal, Mohamed El-Komi, Dean Karlan and Adam Osman
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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have… Mahmoud A. El-Gamal September 30, 2011
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Journal
Gender in the Middle East: Islam, State, Agency Gender has come to demarcate battle lines in geopolitical struggles since Sept. 11, 2001, and to occupy a central place in the discourse of international relations in regard to Muslim countries. This article offers a critical analysis of the scholarship on issues that constitute the core of the intellectual discourse on gender in the Middle East.
Mounira Charrad May 3, 2011
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Journal
Tunisia at the Forefront of the Arab World: Two Waves of Gender Legislation Starting in the 1950s and ever since, Tunisia has implemented gender legislation expanding women's rights in family law. This article documents the two major phases of reforms in favor of women's rights in Tunisia and outlines the conditions that permitted or encouraged the continuity over the last half century.
Mounira Charrad December 3, 2010
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Journal
Kinship, Islam, or Oil: Culprits of Gender Inequality? The lower participation of women in the paid labor force in the Muslim Middle East relative to other world regions raises the question: What is the culprit of gender inequality in the Muslim Middle East? Could it be Islam or is it something else?
Mounira Charrad November 25, 2009
Baker Institute Policy Report 44: Stem Cells: Saving Lives or Crossing Lines -- Qatar Stem Cell Workshop
In March 2009, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development co-hosted a workshop in Doha, Qatar, on stem cell research, policies, and regulations. The event highlighted current stem cell science, as well as stem cell policies and ethics. The discussion focused on policies around the globe and the religious views of embryonic stem cell research from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives. The workshop was organized so that outcomes from the event could be relevant to the development of Qatar"s up-and-coming stem cell research. Based on the presentation from the event, the advisory panel for the Baker Institute International Stem Cell Policy Program made a series of recommendations for the new stem cell initiative in Qatar, including the suggestion for outreach to the Qatari community.
Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Neal F. Lane August 1, 2009
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Conflict Resolution and U.S. Foreign Policy | Testimony
The Honorable Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman, Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies. Edward P. Djerejian February 1, 2004