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At dinner this evening in Beirut, the mother of my host family spoke of a conversation she had a few weeks ago with a Syrian widow with two boys, ages 8 and 10.  They had fled Syria but had not been able to get the papers needed that would enable them to stay in Lebanon. This…

OLE has been given an award from the UNHCR Innovation Fund to implement its TIGER program (These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Reading) for adolescent Syrian girls in UNHCR’s Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Dr. Rowe will travel to Za’atari, in the northwest part of Jordan the first week of November where he will interview the ten…

OLE Kenya launched the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Challenge program in Nairobi, Kenya the first week of May with support provided by the Public Affairs office of the US Embassy. The YALI program is an initiative by President Obama to support an emerging generation of African leaders as they work to drive economic growth,…

March 8th is a very special day for women and girls across the world. On this day, the world recognizes the contributions, sacrifices and achievements made by women. We too celebrated Women’s Day in Dadaab, Kenya in hopes to bring women and girls together to celebrate their achievement, acknowledge the challenges, and a call for…

My name is Abdullahi Ali Mohamed, I have lived in Hagadera for the last 22 years and have experienced so many different attitude towards life. I came to Hagadera camp while I was very young and I cannot remember most of the past experience that I had In Somalia. But, I can remember few things…

As has happened before in history, in the middle of the 20th Century, a handful of American leaders used their words to convey ideas that created a mental framework that led to one of the more progressive democratic periods of the our nation. Other social and economic factors helped make those changes possible but words…

Check out Dr. Rowe’s feature article on Boston Network for International Development’s blog! Dr. Rowe sums up a couple important notes to remember. First of all, we are all in international development. “Whether we are working locally or abroad, we are all working and having direct implications and effects on other parts of the world…

Check out our blog post on Boston Network for International Development: Disparity in the world is growing resulting to lack of opportunity. A single donation of money and food without a targeted solution is not the answer to reducing disparity. Give people a real chance! A basis to climb the ladder!  Basic education is the…

In the New York Times Book Review of General Bolger’s “Why We Lost” [Nov. 16, 2014], the reviewer, Andrew Bacevich, not only critiqued Bolger’s perspectives meaningfully, but also went beyond his thesis to raise crucial questions about the failure of our democratic system—and ultimately of us all—to demand a more effective strategy for responding to terrorism.  That fatal…

I have long believed that OER in K-12 education will have a good life so long as it does not directly threaten the commercial publishers of school textbooks.  It’s not clear to me when this battle will occur and who will win it but I do expect to see strong opposition to widespread OER for…