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Biden Appoints Former Obama Official to Key Role in National Security Council President Joe Biden has appointed lawyer Maher Bitar to be the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence programs. Bitar has served as general counsel to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and as a top legal adviser to its chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) since 2017. “I am thrilled to see him in his new post, though we will certainly miss him on the committee,” Schiff told Poli...

Biden appoints Palestinian-American as senior intelligence director US President-elect Joe Bide in US on 10 March 2020 [Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency] January 25, 2021 at 4:27 pm US President Joe Biden has appointed Palestinian-American Maher Bitar as the senior director for intelligence programmes at the National Security Council (NSC), Politico newspaper reported. Bitar served as general counsel to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and played a huge role in former President Donal...

Maher Bitar (c) with his wife, daughter, and former boss, Sept. 21, 2015. President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Palestinian-American attorney Maher al-Bitar, who served on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs and as deputy to Samantha Power, to be the new director of the NSC intelligence service. Politico, which broke the news, described Al-Bitar’s new job as “the day-to-day connective tissue between the intelligence communit...

Will Myanmar Take Back Rohingya Refugees or is This The Start of a Long Process? Published January 20th, 2021 - 12:17 GMT Myanmars minority rohingya people wait in a queue to receive tram at Balukhali rohingya camp, Ukhiya in Cozs Bazar Bangladesh on September 25, 2017. (Shutterstock/ File Photo) Highlights Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation. Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilit...

Myanmar Agrees To Start Taking Back Rohingya This Year Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation. Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday. Bangladesh pushed hard to begin the repatriation, but Myanmar again delayed...

Florida International University Search Newly graduated Stempel Ph.D. takes on the world as a professor and researcher dedicated to bettering the lives of refugees Mitra Naseh grew up in Iran and had a first-hand view of what those fleeing neighboring war-torn Afghanistan experienced January 20, 2021 at 10:22am Mitra Naseh this month won a national award for a dissertation that presents “a multidimensional model for understanding poverty among refugees.” But the 2020 graduate of the Stempel...

2020 May Finally Be Over, But the Plight of Refugees and Other Immigrants Is Not Many immigrants and refugees have long known the anguish and loneliness of being separated from family. Matthew Soerens 2020 was a hard year. The coronavirus pandemic upended lives and forced millions of Americans to stay socially distanced and isolated. Many spent Christmas apart from family for the first time ever. As we enter the new year, I know we’re all yearning for a return to normal so that we can reunite...

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  Participants at a climate change meeting convened by Kenya Climate Change Working Group (www.kccwg.org) have called for integrated approaches at all levels of governance internationally, nationally, and locally as a measure to mitigate climate change effects, that is giving the world’s sleepless nights. According to the speakers, there is hope on the horizon, now that the US, the world’s leading economy wants to re-enter the Paris Agreement of 2015 which offers a ray of hope in the fight...