Podcast appearances and mentions of al mesbar center

How do an Iraqi comic, an Algerian military recruitment video, and a musical sketch from the American TV show "Schoolhouse Rock" illuminate the defining challenge of Arab politics for a generation to come? From radicalism to reform, from post-colonial states to newly-minted caliphates – the Middle East’s contentious identity politics have both raised new challenges and revealed new opportunities. Using video footage from the region rarely seen outside the Middle East, Braude illuminates little-known but potentially significant developments that may give hope to a troubled region. Braude is a senior advisor to the Al Mesbar Center for Research and Studies, a reformist think tank in the UAE. He broadcasts weekly on Moroccan National Radio, and writes regularly for Arabic-language periodicals.

As part of its outreach to the West, the Al-Mesbar Center co-sponsored the publication of an e-book with the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. A one-day conference to introduce the book was held in Washington in March 2013 -- the first-ever Al-Mesbar event in the United States. Joseph Braude introduced the Center to the audience.

Al-Mesbar Center has published a new study on the status of women in the Arab world following the revolutions of 2010-2011. It features research from female scholars barely known in the West who teach at the University of Benghazi in Libya, University of Manouba in southern Tunisia, and other academic venues of growing importance in the region today.

Al-Mesbar Center has published ground-breaking research on Shi'ism in Egypt, a growing trend in the country today with profound implications for Egypt, Iran, and the broader region.