Maysa contributes to international development, education and philanthropy through her writing. She has published reports and articles as Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and as Senior Fellow at the AUB Issam Fares Institute. Maysa has also worked closely with Theirworld to develop several refugee education plans and reports.
She is commissioned regularly by donor agencies and academia to write reports on aid effectiveness, philanthropy, Edtech strategies and more. Maysaβs articles have been published in international and national media including Project Syndicate, the World Economic Forum, The Globe & Mail, AlSharq AlAwsat, The National, The Huffington Post and others.
Theirworld was part of a mission to Moldova to gain a better insight into the unfolding Ukrainian refugee crisis and find ways to ensure every affected child has access to education and psychosocial support. Organised by Education Cannot Wait β[...]
Over 3.5 million peopleβhalf of them childrenβhave fled Ukraine to neighboring countries over the past several weeks. The consequences for Ukrainian refugee children are devastating. They have experienced trauma, loss, and separation from their families and co[...]
The war on Ukraine is a stark reminder to the Western world that displacement is not the exclusive fate of people from the Global South. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that up to 4 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children,[...]
Giving teachers the right tools and knowledge are crucial, say the experts in our discussion following a new early childhood education report from Theirworld. As 90% of brain development happens before the age of five, quality early childhood education (ECE) is[...]
The refugee crisis in the Greek Aegean islands has reached an untenable situation which requires urgent action by the Greek authorities and the international community. This report shows a way forward. There are 42,000 refugees stuck on the Greek Aegean islands[...]
Governments Simply Cannot Do It Alone β How Philanthropy Can Drive Development in the Arab World
The Arab world has long suffered from a wide spectrum of socio-economic challenges and conflicts. Three statistics demonstrate these acute challenges beyond doubt: 1) two-thirds of the regionβs population is either poor or vulnerable to multi-dimensional poverty[...]
Four years ago, we set out to establish the Arab worldβs largest privately funded education foundation. The mandate that its founder Abdulla Al Ghurair laid out was focused and ambitious: to help 15,000 under-served, high-achieving Arab youth access high-quality[...]
Inadequate access to high-quality schooling in the Arab world has contributed to a widening skills gap that is leaving many young people, even those who have completed school, unemployed and hopeless. But one promising solution offers hope throughout the region: i[...]
The dominant narrative about Arab youth is deeply worrying. A generation of Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans,Sudanese, and Yemenis are without an education and are losing their futures to intractable conflict. Arabyouth form the largest demographic in the Middle East and[...]
This week, Arab and international leaders will gather in Jordan for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Their discussions will centre on how to solve some of the regionβs greatest challenges: grave humanitarian crises e[...]