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Author: Adib Nehme, a consultant on poverty and development, an affiliate of the Arab NGO Network for Development, formerly UN ESCWA’s regional consultant on governance and state building.
In this opinion piece, Nehme notes that rather than introducing new problems, the pandemic simply “laid bare the structural deformities in the civilizational pattern governing our societies and our models of economic and social development.”
In reviewing the role of COVID-19 as an “acceleratory agent” that aggravated pre-existing problems “turning them into open crises”, Nehme reflects on region specific challenges, including conflict, rights violations and inequality.
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