By Andra Petruta The impact of environmental change first became an issue of interest for the United Nations in 1968, within a meeting of the Economic and Social Council, but it was only after a few years that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was established. It would take another thirty years for the first …
By Ali Shariat When the electoral victories of Ennahda in Tunisia and the Muslim Brotherhood in Eygpt were announced, commentators were quick to question whether the hard fought democracies would be lost. This fear was catalysed not because they did not wish to pursue the establishment of democratic institutions, it was because both these parties …
By Ramsha Khan. The 25th of January marked the first anniversary of the spark that lit the Egyptian Revolution, and many took it as an invitation to pause for reflection over the tumultuous events of the last year. This remembrance is especially marked due to the emergence of the newly democratically elected parliament and the swearing in …
