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Yb issue 004 - 2009 Yb"j governance edition POCKETBOOK Eco-Innovation COMMERCE Project Reuse Me PEOPLE & SOCIETY Yemen’s Refugees THE VERVE Exploited Jewels CREATIVE CONSCIOUS Love & The Cause IMPRESSIONS Rebuilding Iraq THINK FORWARD Sudan in Crisis MAKE YOUR MOVE trusting others to decide for you... issn 1998-1023 a publication dedicated to social responsibility in the Arab world EL BOUTIQUE SENIOR DESIGNER Tamara Taouil RESEARCH Khadija Hatim TECHNICAL DESIGNER Huzaifa Rajodwala CONTENT COORDINATOR Hussah Al Tamimi EL BOUTIQUE GRAPHIC DESIGNER Quresh Fakhruddin RESEARCH Alefia Zakir TREE OF HOPE The Tree of Hope is dedicated to organizations and individuals who support en.v as we embark on a thought-provoking journey. Log on to envearth.com and download our mediakit to learn more about how you can support en.v’s initiatives. 4 issue 004 - 2009 envearth.com CONTENTS en.v 1 en.v 49 CREATIVE CONSCIOUS 4 Tree of Hope 50 Film: Fouad Nahas 6 Contributors 52 Books: Hamida Na’na’: Syrian 7 Editor’s Letter Writer in Exile The Metaphor 8 Opinion: White, or Off White? 53 Music: 54 Art: Love & The Cause 10 POCKETBOOK 56 Design: Conserving History p.18 11 Lingo 59 IMPRESSIONS 12 Statistics Iraq... Building a Nation? 13 Calendar 14 Trends 17 COMMERCE 18 Initiatives: Project Reuse Me 20 Economics: The Credit Crunch Arrives... 22 Business: Telecommunications: p.28 Leading Privatization 23 Online: Page Not Found 25 PEOPLE & SOCIETY 68 THINK FORWARD 26 Culture: Egypt: Seeking an 69 Agriculture: From Sorghum to Guns Impossible Balance 72 Industry: On the Road to Economic 28 Community: Going Global with Liberalization? Governance: Yemen’s Refugee 73 Science: Going Green in the GCC: Paradox Government-led Waste Management 30 Personality: Our Leading Ladies Initiatives 32 Corporate Social Responsibility: 75 Technology: eGovernance p.42 Changing the Philanthropic Face of Corporate Social Responsibility 76 References in MENA 77 Directory 34 Informed: Good Governance for Development: A Necessity or Merely a Pipe Dream? 36 Leader: Fighting Fire with Fire: The Leadership Vacuum 38 Innovation: Out with the New and in with the Old? p.54 41 THE VERVE 42 Fashion: Exploited Jewel 43 Food: Foreign Solutions to Local Problems 44 Shopping: Shopping for a Stamp 46 Sports: One Fine Sunday 47 Travel: The Diplomacy Olympics CIRCULATION DIRECTOR p.69 Abdulwahab Al Ghanim envearth.com issue 004 - 2009 5 CONTRIBUTORS MEHIYAR KATHEM AL SA’ADI Contributor In 2003, after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Stud- ies (SOAS), Mehiyar Kathem travelled to Baghdad to help set up a grass-roots chari- table organization, Culture for All, with the objective of LAILA AL-GHARABALLY contributing to the country’s rehabilitation from years of Cover Artwork war, sanctions, dictatorship After attending the Univer- and isolation. Building the sity of Boulder in Colorado necessary trust with targeted and Marquette University in communities through the NESMA FARAHAT Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 23- provision of cultural, social year-old Laila Al-Gharabally and educational services, Contributor graduated Cum Laude with a meant that a successful Nesma Farahat is a Pro- Bachelor of Arts in Advertis- model had been established gram Specialist at the Near ing and a minor in Studio early on in 2003 and 2004 East Foundation/Center Art in December 2006. Ever ‒ effectively protecting for Development Services since she was a young child, Culture for All from what DWAN KAOUKJI (CDS) in Cairo. She holds a Laila has always immersed would bring the country to Contributor Bachelor of Arts in Political herself in anything creative the brink of civil war and Science and Sociology from Dwan Kaoukji is a researcher ‒ specifically the arts. Apart fragmentation in 2006. Since the American University in at the Darlington Social from classes she took at 2003, Culture for All has Cairo (AUC), and an MSc in Research Unit; a non-profit school and university, as worked at the grass-root Violence, Conflict and De- organization that conducts well as a handful of private level through community velopment from the School scientific research about lessons in her younger years, owned projects to bring hope of Oriental and African child development in the Laila has attempted to make and confidence to various Studies (SOAS) - University context of children’s services time to develop her skills and echelons of society in the of London. At SOAS, Nesma in the United Kingdom. find a niche of comfort for backdrop of ensuing conflict. focused her research on the Prior to her work at the Unit, her artistic abilities. A former In 2007, Mehiyar graduated reformation of child soldier Dwan received a Master’s copywriter at JWT-Kuwait, from the London School of rehabilitation programs in degree in Urban Planning Laila is continually looking Economics with an MSc in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nesma’s and Public Policy from the for opportunities in which Development Management. passions include children, University of Illinois at Chi- she can merge her creative He now resides in Baghdad. women’s issues, education cago (UIC) in 2005. There, skills with real-life ventures. and poverty reduction. she worked as a research as- sistant at the UIC Neighbor- hoods Initiative; a program assisting in the development of community organizations in the Chicago area. Dwan is currently pursuing a PhD in International Development, investigating the effects of improving relationships be- tween funders and recipients in international aid projects. 6 issue 004 - 2009 envearth.com EDITOR’S LETTER CONTRIBUTORS Dear Reader, Adel Nuseibeh Dwan Kaoukji Survival and adaptability are the greatest gifts we Hussam El Tayeb possess as humans; the Kamal Hakim ability to persevere when all Laila Hayat seems lost, and the desire Leen Al Zaben to improve upon that which has failed. These are the Leen Qablawi very underpinnings of our Mehiyar Kathem Al Sa’adi society, and the skills that we Mindy Schulte must continue to hone and Nesma Farahat cultivate. Nur Kaoukji In this issue, Issue 004: Passinte Mokhtar The Governance Edition, we Reem Sweid examine the systems and Saleem Haddad processes through and under which our societies are run. Sarah Schmidhofer As the world seems to be Whitney Rios falling around us, the cracks Yasmin El Rifae and faults in our governance MANAGING EDITOR systems are beginning to COVER ARTWORK reveal themselves. Rather Zahed Sultan than this being a signal for Laila Al Gharabally “Given the state of the global financial crisis, skilled panic, it is in fact a beacon of individuals, proactive youth groups and smaller agile opportunity for change and reform. SECTION COVER ARTWORK organizations will be the biggest drivers for social Nada Dalloul change in the coming year.” In our fourth issue, en.v’s staff and contributors have ARTWORK worked hard to bring you Tamara Taouil the failures and successes of our governance systems. From the inner workings PHOTOGRAPHY of a community, to the Culture for All organization of a corporation and policies of a government; LAYOUT DESIGN governance is the very basis and fuel behind these Zahed Sultan processes. ADVERTISING & PUBLISHING There seems to be no better time for us to dissect, El Boutique Creative Group examine and analyze these processes to continue on PRINTING a path towards progress British Industries ‒ for there is no greater opportunity to rebuild when all that was built before has CONTACT started to crumble. www.envearth.com EXECUTIVE EDITOR www.elboutique.com The need is great and Siham Nuseibeh the time is vital, what we make of it shall remain our ALL CONTENT COPYRIGHT greatest legacy as a society. en.v 2008 Siham Nuseibeh envearth.com issue 004 - 2009 7 OPINION White, or Off White? Siham Nuseibeh It all began with a shoe... As the bombs and bullets rained over of excited support. This MP is one on Gaza during the 22-day Israeli inva- whose policies, on any other given day, I sion between December 27, 2008 and would think about two, three, four times Why do my choices have to be so January 18, 2009, politicians, people, before backing ‒ let alone cheer on with limited? organizations and whole nations roared as much enthusiasm as I just had! to attention in seeming support and The famous Indian economist and Nobel solidarity with the besieged population. I had previous knowledge about the po- Laureate, Amartya Sen, characterizes Legislators, journalists, and parliamen- litical and social leanings of the MP in development as the widening of choices tarians all over the region displayed par- question, yet I still found myself falling and the expanding of our capabilities in ticular fits of rage, disgust and outrage prey to his demonstrative gesture ‒ be- order to attain and access these choices. at this latest Israeli show of unrelenting cause his sympathies and sentiments, at This is a revolutionary way of viewing destruction and savagery. I remember that demonstrative moment, lay parallel development, as a means rather than as watching one particularly well-known to mine... a static end, as processes through which Kuwaiti Member of Parliament (MP) we struggle for freedoms and eman- give a speech in which he raised his This made me question: How could an cipations. In this view, development shoe in a daring and dramatic overture educated person sift, decipher and sort becomes an active and participatory against a certain Palestinian personage through all the political rhetoric of one process in which we the people become whom he deemed to be no better than political party or entity versus another the agents in a shared quest. the upraised item. I found myself, sitting with a critical eye and fine-tuned ear, at home in my living room, cheering without having to simply settle for the Prince Claus, the German-born aristo- him on, as he seemed to be mirroring better of two unappealing extremes? crat and founder of the Prince Claus the very feelings of the Arab street.
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