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Arts and Culture in the Middle East
Countries in the Middle East face a wide array of challenges in promoting the arts and protecting freedom of expression for artists. RAND's research focuses on policy solutions that may help address these issues and improve the cultural climate for artists and people in the region.
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May 15, 2019
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While transportation rights are important, the number of women in the workplace will not change overnight. Other factors presenting challenges to women's employment in the Middle East include longstanding tradition, family responsibilities...
Associate Program Director, Disaster Research and Analysis Program Source: The Hill
Art, created by and for those living in the Middle East, can more effectively counter the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of violent extremism than material—some of it propagandist—produced by the United States and the West.
Senior Behavioral Scientist Source: ForeignPolicy.com
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