Middle East and North Africa

Dear Friends, Greetings of love and peace from Fez, Morocco; and early greetings for the 11th Anniversary of URI’s Charter Signing, tomorrow, 26 June 2011 [By the time I’ve been able to...

Dear Friends, Greetings of love and peace from Fez, Morocco; and early greetings for the 11th Anniversary of URI’s Charter Signing, tomorrow, 26 June 2011 [By the time I’ve been able to...

A flock of swallows is delighting at dusk outside my windows – swooping and soaring, chittering in what sounds like joy; and the muezzin from the nearby mosque is chanting the call to prayer. My prayer at the moment is one of gratitude...

Dear Friends, Greetings of love and peace from Rabat, Morocco. It’s nearly 11:30 PM. We’ve just arrived back at our hotel and before I go to bed I’d like to share a few high points..

I arrived here about 8 hours ago after about 13 hours in the air and nearly missing my connecting flight in Paris. I arrived, without luggage, to the warm welcome of Noufal al Hammomi, a 2010 URI Youth Ambassador who has helped anchor the local logistics for upcoming Young Leaders Training and URI MENA and Europe Assembly and two friends.

Last year when I visited Egypt, it felt heavy. For three decades, Mubarak’s forces succeeded to subdue the once innovative Egyptian people. But in his absence, a palpable sense of.

We speak to Bashar Masri, the man behind Rawabi, Palestine’s first planned and green city.