Africa south of the Sahara 1988, The Far East and Australasia 1988, The Middle East and North Africa 1988 and South America, Central America and the Caribbean 1988

1988 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-545
Author(s):  
Margaret Julian
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Caribbean

Pensée 4: Striking New State–Society Bargains over the Internet

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-537
Author(s):  
JON W. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The West ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Middle Easterners

Not long ago a MESA Bulletin reader objected to introducing coverage of the Internet, saying that there were few Middle East studies online. However, you do find Middle Easterners. With increasingly accessible technology, there are thousands of websites that are added to listservs and now supplemented by blogs from, by, and about Middle Easterners. The trend has been from witness to participant. Yet the subjective register of the Internet in Middle East and North Africa is often a new example of exceptionalism: less free than in the West, less extensive than in the Far East, slow to grow and stunted when it does, with limited access and high costs that confine it demographically and culturally, not to mention politically. That is also what most comparative measures tell, but those do not measure what is happening. Early interest a decade ago has subsequently faded—or phased—into something more interesting than another story of absences.

scholarly journals United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-568
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Far East ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The United Nations

On March 31, 1949, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was officially liquidated after five and one half years of existence. Established as a temporary agency to assist war-devastated countries and areas unable to undertake their own relief and rehabilitation, UNRRA was supported by contributions from 48 member governments, four non-member governments and individuals and private organizations. Its work was carried on in missions to 16 receiving countries and it supported displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, Italy, the Middle East, North Africa and the Far East until the International Refugee Organization was established.

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