Prepping for COP27

Winter 2022 / Essays

Egypt is a microcosm for the impacts of climate change being felt across the MENA region, with water loss at the very top. It should likewise be high on the agenda when Cairo hosts this year’s UN climate summit

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Young People Are Leading Climate Activism in the Middle East

Fall 2021 / Essays

Across the Arab World and the Middle East, young people are mobilizing to raise climate change awareness.

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Climate Change and the Global South: The Case of Africa

Fall 2021 / Essays

Should climate change continue unaddressed, it is estimated that of the additional 30–170 million people who are likely to suffer from malnutrition or under-nutrition globally in the coming years, three-quarters will be in Africa.

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For A Worse Tomorrow

Fall 2021 / Q & A

Journalist Dahr Jamail stresses the severity of the climate crisis—and asks everyone to start acting like it.

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Who Feels Climate Anxiety?

Fall 2021 / Essays

In the simplest terms, the answer is: it depends on who perceives it as a threat, and what “anxiety” means to them.

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Locked-in Emissions: The Climate Change Arms Trade

Fall 2021 / Essays

With militaries’ locked-in fossil fuel systems and looming climate chaos, the arms industry continues to take advantage of nefarious profit opportunities.

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A Climate Crisis in Africa: The Case of South Sudan

Fall 2021 / Essays

The African continent will be the most severely affected by climate change. Within Africa, the least developed and politically unstable nations like South Sudan are likely to be the hardest hit. What can be done, and who should be at the forefront of these changes?

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The Climate Crisis Needs a Global Green New Deal

September 23, 2021 / Midan

A Global Green New Deal would equitably prevent dangerous levels of warming, but it must be implemented soon.

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A New Water Paradigm for Sub-Saharan Africa

Fall 2021Summer 2021 / Essays

To make clean water and sanitation truly accessible to local communities across the continent, African institutions must take the lead in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities they face.

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Explaining How Washington and the Election Works

Fall 2020 / Essays

In 2016, all predictions about the U.S. elections were wrong. Will Washington insiders get it right this time?

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Climate Change and COVID-19: There Is More Than One Curve to Flatten

June 28, 2020 / Midan

What COVID-19 response can tell us about our readiness to deal with climate change

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Reinventing Governance for a Fragile and Complex New World

May 15, 2020 / COVID-19: Global Crisis

The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the weaknesses of the international system; to fix the present and prepare for the future, we must pivot to a resilience paradigm.

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in COVID-19

April 17, 2020 / Essays

The nexus between water, energy, and food today is fragile—made all the more so by climate change, catastrophic weather events, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Myths about Food Security and Water

Winter 2020 / Essays

Will water be the cause of the next war in the Middle East? Is water important for regional food security? Can economic diversification really work? Time to bust the myths around questions of food and water security in the region

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Averting a Total Collapse

Winter 2020 / Essays

How is the water-energy-food nexus impacting ecological, social, and political systems in the Middle East and North Africa?

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Our Future as Climate Refugees

Winter 2020 / Q & A

Journalist Dahr Jamail discusses the impact of climate change on the Middle East and calls for immediate collaborative action

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Facing the Nuclear Storm

Fall 2019 / Essays

Countries across the Middle East are building or have already started operating their nuclear power plants. To assess how “resilient” their nuclear energy systems are, one must look at a number of important risks and factors

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Heat is on for Brazil’s Bolsonaro

October 15, 2019 / Global Forum

Bolsonaro has shifted focus from an economic reforms agenda, which the country sorely needs amid recession fears, to a cultural one, which pleases his supporters.

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Climate Change Conundrum

Summer 2017 / Book Reviews

Can cities succeed when nations fail in the fight against global warming?

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The Battle for Antarctica

Spring 2017 / Midan

Failure to stem climate change could have dramatic consequences for the continent

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The Unnatural World

Spring 2017 / Book Reviews

Will mankind have the ability to prevail in the struggle for a sustainable planet?

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Dangerous Years

Winter 2017 / Book Reviews

What will it take to spark a great environmental awakening and avert catastrophic climate change?

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After the Paris Agreement

Fall 2016 / Essays

The international deal to combat global warming comes into force in 2016. For climate activists, it’s the beginning of a new stage in the struggle to hold nations accountable for their greenhouse emissions.

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The End of Stationarity

Fall 2016 / Book Reviews

Winners and losers in the time of climate change

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Our Common Home

Summer 2016 / Essays

In an extract from the papal encyclical Laudato Si’, the bishop of Rome makes an impassioned plea to save the planet from ecological destruction: “We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world.”

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Will Lebanon Face its Immense Climate Change Dangers?

March 21, 2016 / Tahrir Forum

An eye-opening report on climate change effects in Lebanon reveals the need for government to commit to save tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming decades, and prevent a further fracturing of society along wealth/poverty lines.

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