International insight and expert media resources for journalists
Published archive
International perspectives and commentary from the Global Experts archive.
Praise goes to President Obama for his long-overdue decision to limit drone strikes. But it's clear from this week's strike that killed the Pakistani Taliban's No. 2 leader, Wali-…
Global Expert Dr. Eboo Patel received an honorary degree and delivered the commencement address at Claremont Lincoln University on May 21st. In his address "On the Vanguard: A Cel…
Welcome to Global Experts, a project of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Global Experts is a resource that connects journalists to opinion leaders from around the wor…
Global Expert Melody Moezzi addressed 25 young journalists on the use of social media to promote cross-cultural understanding at the Jordan Data Bootcamp in April.
What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict among outsiders. In the process, the…
The Muslim world, it must be remembered, does not exist in a vacuum or in a world without Others. Lest we forget, the developments in the Muslim world today are taking place in an…
Some things change, some stay the same. For the first time in eight years, after the London bombings of July 7, 2005, a British citizen has been killed on British soil in a radica…
Mulla Omar won’t be appointing Pakistan’s next prime minister as the nation stood its ground and voted courageously on May 11, 2013. Yes, Pakistan has recorded 22 per cent sur…
North Korea is in the news for two reasons: It has expanding nuclear weapons and missiles programs and it threatens to attack South Korea, the United States, and Japan. The nuclea…
MEDIA ALERT: Religious Rioting in Central Myanmar Leaves Five Dead At least five people are dead following two days of religious clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in the centr…
Catholic Cardinals elected new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Buenos Aires,Wednesday afternoon in Vatican City. He is the first South American pope to be elected.
Pakistani Christians took to the streets of Lahore on Sunday to protest a rash of violence against their community over the weekend. (Sources: New York Times, Al Jazeera, Huffingt…