Sajjad Shah

A Syrian refugee teacher distributes books to her refugee students in their classroom at Fatih Sultan Mehmet School in Karapurcek district of Ankara, Turkey, September 28, 2015. Out of 640,000 Syrian children in Turkey, 400,000 are not at school, a Turkish official told Reuters on Friday, warning that those who miss out are likely to be exploited by "gangs and criminals". Educating the children among more than 2.2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey - most of whom live outside purpose-built camps - is seen as a critical part of the humanitarian response to the four-and-a-half-year-old conflict. Picture taken September 28, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - GF10000230197

Syrian refugees and the schooling challenge

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

A general view of the traffic on a crowded road in Cairo October 26, 2010. Smog-ridden Cairo's gridlock shows investment in roads, railways and ports is failing to keep pace with economic growth, menacing public health and threatening economic asphyxiation. Around 12,000 deaths occur every year in Egypt because of road accidents, the highest rate in the world per head of population bar Eritrea and the Cook Islands, according to the World Health Organization's most recent report in 2009. The capital's congested roads come to a standstill daily as infrastructure fails to support population growth of 2 percent a year and as thousands of new cars hit the streets every year. Picture taken October 26, 2010. To match Feature EGYPT-BUSINESS/ REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - GM1E71R08F001

Egypt’s population: Boom then bust?

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Migrants rest after they were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard, at a naval post in the coastal town of Tajoura, east of Tripoli, Libya, May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny - RC1482444700

The slave trade in Libya: What can development actors do?

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Thursday, January 25, 2018