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1 month ago | 
agbi.com | Paul Cochrane
SPECIAL REPORT Trade Egypt's portfolio of multilateral trade deals includes the largest continental free trade agreement in the world. We look at how it can do more business in Africa – a market of 1.5 billion people In association with Egypt has a significant trade advantage over the rest of Africa.
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1 month ago | 
just-style.com | Laura Husband |Paul Cochrane
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2 months ago | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
MIDDLE EAST
The conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have been disastrous for higher education, with hundreds of thousands of students affected by disruption to their studies, infrastructural damage to centres of learning, and the psychological toll of war.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
PALESTINE
Over and above those tragically killed, as many as 90,000 students in the Gaza Strip have lost access to higher education as a result of Israel’s ongoing military attacks on universities that started in October 2023, according to a senior West Bank university official.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
LEBANON
The two-month long Israeli military attacks on Lebanon – an escalation of a year-long conflict between Israel and Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah – has hit the country’s higher education sector hard. The impact is all the worse given that Lebanon’s universities and colleges have been struggling with financial and economic problems for five years.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Paul Cochrane
A lot of people on the planet are praying for the Second Coming – Messianic Christians awaiting Jesus and Muslims for the Mahdi to return. Tariq Mehmood is not among that crowd. Instead he spends a lot of time imagining and discussing possible futures.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
peateasea.de | Paul Cochrane
Not a real dinosaur and not real poetry. Just me updating my Python projectsetup knowledge. The new1 way,A dino jumps:Splash!I’m a bit of a dinosaur. Well, I feel like one at times. I mean, I’ve beenusing Python since version 1.5 and that makes me feel old. Also, up untilrecently, I didn’t know that poetry was abig thing in the Python world for project dependencymanagement.2 The things ya learn.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
polymerspaintcolourjournal.com | Paul Cochrane |Dhanya Jagannivasan
The paint markets of the Levant – Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (now recognised by the UN as a state, even though it has no unified governance) – are all reeling from ongoing conflict and economic instability. The more developed and export-orientated markets of Lebanon and Israel are however releasing new innovative paint products.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Paul Cochrane
North Africa has long been a backwater in the Mediterranean submarine cable sector, with no single cable providing internet connection to all of the countries along the sea's southern shoreline. But this is set to change with the imminent launch of a new cable - known as Medusa - linking southern Europe with North Africa and potentially onwards through Egypt to Asia.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
GLOBAL
As the expression goes, ‘it’s lonely at the top’. It is a statement often repeated by university leaders fresh to the job as they navigate their new role in management. Newly minted leaders have, however, found reassurance that they are not alone in the challenges they face when interacting with contemporaries at the regular International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) seminar on leadership development for new presidents and emerging leaders.
