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Sarah is a writer, Global Envision intern, Arabic teacher, and itinerant translator living in sunny Portland, which has more in common with her other favorite city of Damascus, Syria, than you might imagine. Neither shares much with New York, New York, where she lived for four years while studying at Barnard College, from which she graduated with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Human Rights. She enjoys travel, reading, and watching Syrian soap operas in her spare time.
Photo by Anas Qtiesh.

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Global Voices Online
Meedan
The Arabist
Sociological Images
The London Review of Books

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Recent Posts

May 19, 2010 - When an Individual is an Investment
May 19, 2010 - Measuring Inequality in More than Just Income
Apr 30, 2010 - In Search of a Rare Legal Equality
Apr 19, 2010 - A Tribute to C. K. Prahalad
Apr 13, 2010 - Learning from the Soaps
Mar 15, 2010 - Paint by Numbers for the Development Set
Mar 5, 2010 - A Flood of Misdeeds
Mar 1, 2010 - China May Succeed Where the West Failed -- In Africa
Feb 10, 2010 - Nipping the Corruption Bud
Feb 5, 2010 - Poor Vision Put in Focus for the Developing World


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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 07:19
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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