#AtlanticCurrents​ H Sorge in conversation w/ M Baliamoune on the Global South's challenges #COVID19

April 23, 2021

Delve into our fellow Mina Baliamoune's chapter of our annual flagship publication, the Atlantic Currents Report, through our Columnist Helmut Sorge's questions. The 7th edition of the report entitled “The COVID-19 Crisis as seen from the South Atlantic” echoes last year’s special online edition of the Atlantic Dialogues, the AD Talks. The Atlantic Currents: https://www.policycenter.ma/publications/atlantic-currents-annual-report-wider-atlantic-perspectives-and-patterns-covid-19 The AD Talks: ad.policycenter.ma Did you like this interview format? More to come very soon, led by Helmut Sorge!

Speakers
Helmut Sorge
Columnist
Helmut Sorge is a columnist at the Policy Center for the New South, where he publishes opinion pieces in the format of international press reviews of current events related to the Middle East and European affairs, and conducts interviews with high level policy makers and PCNS researchers. He is also a lecturer on journalism and the media. For over 40 years, Helmut Sorge served as a writer, former Foreign correspondent, Foreign editor, and Middle East expert for Germany's leading newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" to Washington, London, Paris and Los Angeles. He reported from Vietnam, the Middle East, wrote about safaris, nuclear accidents, visited prisoners on death row in the United States. The German weekly “Gala” summarized in 2011, when his latest book, a collection of biographies ...
Mina Baliamoune
Senior Fellow
Mina Baliamoune is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South and Richard de Raismes Kip Professor of Economics and University of North Florida Distinguished Professor. She is additionally an Affiliate Professor at the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI University. She is Research Fellow at NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies (CAS) in Singapore, the Economic Research Forum in Cairo and the Global Labor Organization, and has served as Senior Fellow at the African Center for Economic Transformation, Vice-President and President of the African Finance and Economics Association (AFEA), Associate Editor of the Journal of African Development and Information Technology for Development, and on the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics and the B ...

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