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Global Economic Crisis: A Catalyst for Change in Saudi Arabia?
25 Feb 2009
Navtej Dhillon and Hassan Hakimian, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Cass Business School, discuss the economic outlook for Saudi Arabia, a country which until now has enjoyed the benefits of windfall oil revenues, including low levels of public debt and ambitious state-led development projects.
Iran: Poverty and Inequality Since the Revolution
29 Jan 2009
Thirty years after the Iranian revolution proclaimed social justice as a principle tenet, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani analyzes trends in inequality, poverty, and access to education and health services. While strides have been made, the record of the Ahmadinejad administration, up for re-election, is mixed.
President Obama’s Speech: An Appraisal from the Middle East
21 Jan 2009
Expectations for the Obama administration in the Middle East and Muslim world are characterized by a realistic optimism, says Tarik Yousef, speaking on a BBC Arabic radio broadcast. Yousef highlights the importance of the new President’s symbolic changes in rhetoric and discusses the tests that the new administration will face in the region, from the stalled Arab-Israeli peace process to the relationship with Iran. What will beckon the administration first, however, are a pressing set of domestic policy challenges.This interview originally aired on the BBC Arabic radio program "Hadith al-Saa3a" on 21 January 2009.
