Kassem Hamadé, journalist och expert på Syrienkonflikten, har sedan början av den Arabiska våren bevakat samtliga krigsdrabbade länder i Mellanöstern på plats. Hamadé är dessutom den enda svenska journalisten som intervjuat Bashar al-Assad och IS-ledaren Abu Bakr al-Baghdadis ex-fru. Sedan fyra år tillbaka är han...
UPPSALA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND UPPSALA FORUM WELCOMES YOU TO A TWO PART LECTURE ON THE 3RD AND 6TH OF FEBRUARY (FREE FOR EVERYONE) Contrary to prior polling, projections from experts and the majority of the world’s expectations, Donald J. Trump won the presidential election of...
Paying for a taxi ride in Nairobi is now easier than in New York. This is thanks to Kenya’s revolutionary mobile-money system, M-PESA, that is world-leading in the field. The system has spread to big parts of the developing world, and has had a profound...
PANEL DISCUSSION: Where is Turkey heading? The coup attempt in Turkey last summer failed but the country is far from stable, the attempt became the start of a series of events that has drawn the attention of the world. The human right situation deteriorated markedly following...
On 28 June 2016, Sweden was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2017–2018 term. In 2017 Sweden will take its seat on the Security Council with the five permanent members – China, France, Great Britain, Russia and the United...
Spring is approaching and so is our first Uttryck event of the semester - yey! We are happy to announce that political editor of Upsala Nya Tidning and former member of parliament, Håkan Holmberg, is coming to talk to us about how to go from an...
Welcome to the first lecture in 2017! In April 2014 Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group based in North-Eastern Nigeria, kidnapped 276 school girls from the town of Chibok in Northern Nigeria. The crimes have drawn the world's attention on the brutal IS-linked group and the...
Utrikespolitiska föreningen i Uppsala in collaboration with IFMSA Uppsala as part of the Uppsala Sustainability Festival Dr. Sujit Kumar Brahmochary, founder of the organization Institute for Indian Mother & Child (IIMC), will talk about rural development in India, child- and maternal health and his life lasting...
Welcome to join UF for free film screening: "Before the Flood" is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. The film was produced in a collaboration between Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Packer, Brett Ratner, Trevor Davidoski, and Jennifer Davisson Killoran. At the European...
Debatten om klädesplagg för muslimska kvinnor (som slöja, hijab, niqab etcetera) har i flera år varit en fråga som diskuterats. I somras blev frågan återigen omdiskuterad efter burkiniförbudet som infördes på vissa ställen i Frankrike & efter bilderna på de franska poliserna som tvingade av...