Political science students have contributed papers to the German government’s Think Transatlantic initiative, which encourages a renewed focus on U.S.-European relations.
3Qs: Analyzing Egypt’s presidential election and its future outlook
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was named the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election last week and was sworn into office on Saturday. We asked political science professor … read more »
Foreign correspondents for the summer
Sixteen journalism students traveled to Jordan to report on the Middle East through a Dialogue of Civilizations program.
3Qs: Evaluating U.S.-Afghanistan relations
Kimberly Jones, a faculty associate in Northeastern University’s Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, analyzes President Barack Obama’s visit to Afghanistan on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
3Qs: Representing a new Syria
Northeastern’s International Relations Council (IRC) recently sent a delegation to the Southeast Regional Model Arab League competition to represent Syria. The Northeastern delegation took a nontraditional approach, choosing to attend as the Syrian National Council, which is leading the uprising against the government of Bashar al-Assad. We asked IRC president Lara Cole to explain the club’s approach to the competition, in which Northeastern tied for first place.
From undergraduate paper to global policy document
Co-op with security think tank in Switzerland enables international affairs major to take her climate-change research to another level
Health care lessons, from inside a new culture
Dialogue of Civilizations experience in Israel teaches Bouvé students to focus on the commonalities, acknowledge the differences
From global immersion, students find their stories
In Turkey and Jordan, journalism and photography students document life in the Middle East through bold reporting and vibrant images
3Qs: For Middle East peace, more heat than light
The prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine, and U.S. policy on the complicated issue, captured the world’s attention earlier this month, as President Obama delivered a major speech on the Middle East, followed by a daylong meeting between the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Netanyahu’s subsequent address to Congress. Kimberly Jones, a faculty associate in Northeastern’s Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, assesses the impact of these developments.
Using hip-hop to promote peace
Student’s paper, recently published in a musicology journal, examines hip-hop as a means for easing social conflict in the Mideast
3Qs: As precious metals grow more precious
The value of silver soared to an all-time high last Thursday, and plunged dramatically yesterday, illustrating the constant volatility of the precious-metals market, which includes lustrous commodities like gold, silver and platinum. Here, Kamran Dadkhah, an associate professor of econometrics and macroeconomics at Northeastern, who has studied the value of silver and gold in the foreign exchange market, discusses how the declining value of the dollar relates to the ever-shifting value of precious metals and other commodities, such as oil.
Grant expands Mideast studies
New Middle East-focused study-abroad and graduate seminar programs are under development, thanks to a recent grant from a nonprofit devoted to the social sciences.
