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December 12, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women's Social Status and Family Law

This panel assesses progress in family law reform, and highlight recommendations to effect legal and social change to advance women’s economic participation.  

Podcast Women's Social Status and Family Law

July 12, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding Sudan

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (L) and Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir walk at Juba airport July 9, 2011. (STR New/Courtesy Reuters) I recently received a request for some reading recomm…

Understanding Sudan

September 12, 2019

Iran
Israel Is Doing All the Dirty Work Against Iran

The United States came up with “maximum pressure”—but the Israeli government is the only one carrying it out.

Israeli soldiers charge a mortar shell

July 18, 2014

Iran
Weekend Reading: Assad’s Inaugural Address, A Review of Rouhani, and Egypt’s Reconciliation Problems

Full text of Bashar al-Assad’s inauguration speech at his swearing-in ceremony last Wednesday, translated by the Center for Research on Globalization. Said A. Arjomand reflects on President of Iran …

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February 17, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan Is Far From Over, Too

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (R) waves to the crowd during a rally in Kararey locality at Omdurman February 16, 2011. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Courtesy Reuters) Sudan has also disappe…

Sudan Is Far From Over, Too