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On the fourth day of OST Global Immersion Week, Columbia Global Centers I Tunis hosted Open Startup Tunisia. OST delegates had the opportunity to discover the different structures creating the beautiful dynamic of the Tunisian innovation ecosystem.

Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has appointed Griffith-Jones, financial markets director at Columbia’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.

The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University, the Academy of Political Science, Brenthurst Foundation (Johannesburg), in partnership with Columbia Global Centers I Tunis and Columbia Global Centers I Nairobi, worked together on the launch of the report: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Prospects for a Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery in Africa.

In partnership with the African Development Group at Columbia University and the Columbia Alumni Association, Columbia Global Centers | Tunis and Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi organized this webinar to expose Columbia students and affiliates to possible careers on the continent through direct interaction with Columbia alumni who are working in those careers.

Dr. Andrea Achi is Assistant Curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity and has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt. Trained as a Byzantinist, Dr. Achi’s scholarship focuses on late antique and Byzantine art of North and Northeast Africa, and she has brought this expertise to bear on several exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Valentine's Day Special | Columbia and Reid Hall alumni Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jackson Giuricich tell us about their transatlantic journey, their relationship, and their thoughts on the City of Love. 

The tenth Lecture of the "Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics" course was an examination of the search for CNVs in the exomes of Tunisian patients and their role in breast cancer.
 

Member of our Faculty Advisory Board and Director of the Columbia Institute of African Studies, Pr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, joins Insaniyyat as a Member of its Scientific Committee.