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The Middle East Council on Global Affairs and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, have officially launched the Doha Global South Health Policy Initiative. To kick off this initiative, a high-level panel discussion titled “Enhancing Primary Healthcare Access in the Global South: Challenges and Solutions” was held on February 19, 2024, at the Sheraton Grand Doha. The event brought together representatives from nine low-and-middle-income Countries (LMICs) in Africa and Asia, alongside international experts and key stakeholders from Qatar, including the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar Fund for Development, Qatar University, and Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
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Under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the 19th Korea Middle East Cooperation Forum was co-organized by the Diplomatic Institute at Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Middle East Council on Global Affairs the Korea-Arab Society (KAS), Jeju Peace Institute (JPI), and Ibn Khaldon Center at Qatar University on November 6, 2023, at the Ritz Carlton Doha, Qatar.
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The Doha Global South Health Policy Initiative was launched yesterday to develop a collaborative platform for countries in the Global South to address their healthcare challenges and find actionable solutions.
View News LinkOmar H Rahman from the Middle East Council on Global Affairs discusses the national strike across Israel and whether it can force PM Netanyahu to the negotiation table for a Gaza ceasefire.
View News LinkAs the Middle East Council on Global Affairs reported in April, 2024, “Sudan is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change. Rising temperatures, increasingly erratic monsoon rains, prolonged droughts, and frequent flooding pose mounting threats to both the environment and human society.”
View News Link“Israeli society is very fragmented, and there’s anger coming from different sides. … Maybe Netanyahu believes that as long as there is an existential threat from abroad, the turmoil within the country as a whole can be held together through that pressure,” Omar Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.
View News LinkMiddle East Council on Global Affairs | Webinar on “Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia,” September 2, 2024, featuring Juan Cole, Marc Owen Jones, Sohan Dsouza, and Sahar Aziz.
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