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SPP Students Support the #RomaAreEqual Campaign

April 22, 2016

"We were appalled to see violence used to challenge the idea that we are all equal," says MPA second-year student Corina Ajder. She is describing the reaction she and her classmates had when they heard about the 17-year-old Romani man who was savagely beaten by a self-declared ethnic Bulgarian nationalist.

Global Challenges Fellow Khani Shares Hope for Regional Integration in the Middle East

April 22, 2016

"It looks like mission impossible but it is not," said Senior Global Challenges Fellow and Imam Sadiq University (Tehran, Iran) faculty member Mohammad Hassan Khani, speaking of hopes for regional integration in the Middle East.

Free Press in Turkey is Unlikely but Not Impossible

April 21, 2016

"We're not in a great place politically," said Kadir Has University Assistant Professor Efe Sevin about Turkey. He noted Turkey's current five-year decline in Freedom House's press freedom rankings and highlighted the change in status from "partly free" to "not free" in 2013. "Despite a plethora of news outlets and capital accumulation sources of media, why are we stuck in this situation?" he asked the audience. 

The Aleppo Project Travels to Berlin

April 21, 2016

"My participation in this conference is a wonderful opportunity for me to meet other people who are involved in efforts to rebuild Aleppo," explained CCNR Fellow AlHakam Shaar. The conference, Rebuilding Aleppo: Past. Present.

CEU Alumnae Share Advice about Careers in the Gender Field – and More

April 21, 2016

Although they have had very different career paths, alumnae Nato Kurshitashvili and Liana Aghabekyan agreed on many things including their advice to current CEU students, "Take full advantage of your time at CEU," they urged.