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The COVID-19 pandemic shares a number of structural similarities with the great environmental crises that define our time—climate change and biodiversity loss—inviting a slew of reasoned comparisons between planetary disasters.…

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, global attention has been focused on two main issues, the human and health consequences and the huge cost and loss of economic activity…

Europe emerged very early on as one of the world’s first COVID-19 “hotspots.” Initially, a series of haphazard policies, including uncoordinated lockdowns and border closures, and even nations refusing financial…

In past viral outbreaks, the U.S. played a vital international leadership role. With a well-funded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the ability to mobilize resources quickly, U.S.…

For over forty years, since 1977, International Museum Day has been celebrated annually on May 18th.[1] This year, 2020, marks the first time these celebrations took place wholly online all…

Gulf countries face a challenging fiscal environment The six counties of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are facing economic challenges on two fronts. Like other countries, their top priority had…

  As cases of COVID-19 mount across the Middle East, not everyone is equally vulnerable.  As with most illnesses, increased vulnerability to both contracting and surviving the virus is partly a…

SARS-CoV-2 hit a world unprepared for such a breakout. While responses to contain its spread have been driven by medical expertise, the impacts on national economic systems were accepted as…

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of the attention on Gulf migrant workers has focused on their vulnerability to exposure to the virus as well as the financial…