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The Call to Uphold Human Rights

As 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of UDHR, it is rather timely to reflect – as a community and as an individual – upon the gains and lapses of the implementation of the Declaration amidst the criticisms

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China’s Further Ascendancy

In the past decades, China’s economy has improved steadily, and this growth has been instrumental in their various investments worldwide. Through its development banks, infrastructure initiatives, military development and soft power investments, it has made itself a major player in

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Youth unemployment on the rise

Benjamin Disraeli once mentioned that the “youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity”. Given an international landscape whereby the international youth unemployment rate is reported to be high and has been fluctuating in a relatively similar range for

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Salon Shabka | Power vs. limitations

On Friday, 04th May 2018, Shabka was excited to hold the first Salon abroad in Tripoli, Lebanon. We discussed the general question of Western influence in the Middle East under the title “Power vs Limitations: What is the Western Role

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