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Talentenomics: Real returns on investment Dima El Hassan| The Daily Star  “With each and every end comes a brand new story.” This is not Aristotle, nor Confucius. It is not even Jobs nor Gates nor Mandela It’s Nancy Slim, a 12-year-old girl who loves to read and write, believing that books bring change to people’s lives […]

New notion of global friendship celebrated Hiba Huneini| The Daily Star Human life is distinguished from other forms of life on earth by the level of individual intelligence, social interactions and high cognitive capacity on both the individual and group’s level. Human beings cannot live in isolation from each other. Individuals are connected through different links […]

Unearthing the values of the SDGs Rubina Abu Zeinab-Chahine| The Daily Star Development or “crisis” prevention initiatives can be successfully measured by whether you are able to reach your audience or not. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft took the initiative this week by creating a joint global forum to counter and prevent violent extremism. In partnership […]

Urfa: Where aspirations and education meet Since the year 2011 ]the world has been witnessing the biggest displacement crisis since World War II. The latest statistics given by UNHCR showed that in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, there are almost 5,136,969 registered Syrian refugees including respectively around 24.6 percent and 22.9 percent males and […]

Reviving the Arabic language Dima El Hassan| The Daily Star “Mom … I hate Arabic! It is difficult and it’s not nice,” my 6-year-old daughter keeps saying every time we sit to do the Arabic homework. And the reply always comes as: “It’s your native language, you should be proud of it.”“It’s difficult and not nice.” […]

World Youth Skills Day: Education key to reaching potential Hiba Huneini| The Daily Star  Today, on July 15, the world celebrates “Youth Skills Day” as a U.N. international day that was adopted by a resolution of the U.N. General Assembly. Marking this day raises the awareness on the importance of building the skills of youth through […]

The G-20: Keeping its ear to the ground Rubina Abu Zeinab-Chahine| The Daily Star For the past few years, the field of community engagement has been rapidly growing, giving people formerly excluded from decision-making “a seat at the table.” Inclusive processes implemented in preparation for the G-20 summit have certainly offering community members new opportunities to […]

‘The right to disconnect’ in 2017 Dima El Hassan| The Daily Star In 2017, every job is a tech job. We are living in a world where every second sees 2,603,135 sent emails; 7,670 tweets; 2,655 Skype calls; 69,862 YouTube videos; 790 Instagram photos and 46,139 GB of internet traffic (according to Internet Live Stats). Although […]

MONEYSMART is a new program in the Middle East designed by Eventa and brought to you with the support of Byblos Bank. It promotes financial literacy to young people who are about to enter the real world and find themselves challenged due to the little knowledge they have about …management of their finances and future […]