Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Julia Pitner

Julia Pitner was regional director of civil society programs in the Middle East and North Africa for Search for Common Ground, a Washington-based NGO.

MER Article

NGOs' Dilemmas

In the late fall of 1996, a key committee of the Arab League met to discuss a matter of utmost importance. One of the few committees that meet regularly -- the Ministries of the Interior Committee -- it convened in Tunis to strategize about one of the most dire national

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