Habari Post

After 16 years with the World Bank, William Easterly writes about the failures and shortcomings of development policy and practices by Western dominated organizations like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, USAID and the United Nations.

Ghost, Inc. is an Israeli-Palestinian company that provides a free, web-based virtual computer that lets users access their desktop and files from any computer with an Internet connection. Ghost is an acronym for Global Hosted Operating System.

As the 60 year anniversary of Israel's founding approaches, many Israeli citizens express concerns over the direction of their country and in particular over the government spending on the celebration.

The over 40 leaders from Muslim countries meeting in Dakar, Senegal wrapped a two-day summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) last Friday.

Seven million trees are to be planted in Israel in 2008.

Terry Gross from NPR interviewed two individuals last night who used to fight against each other and who are now trying to end the violence between Israel and Palestine by bringing together people who, like themselves, used to fight each other.

A diverse group of Israelis journeying on a two month walk along the Israel Trail is nearing the halfway marker. The purpose of the trek is threefold:

The Economist is running a story on some of the challenges with finding solutions to Middle East conflicts. The problems are tightly interlinked - the flare-up in Gaza made it more difficult to resolve a constitutional crisis in Lebanon, for example.