Kristen Chick is based in Cairo and has covered Egypt and the region for the Monitor since 2010. She covered the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and has reported on the revolution in Libya, protests in Bahrain, and the war in Syria. She has also reported for the Monitor from Gaza and Western Sahara. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 2007, and spent one year studying Arabic in Egypt.
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Paul Giniès is the general manager of the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Burkina Faso, which trains more than 2,000 engineers from more than 30 countries each year.
Paul Giniès turned a failing African university into a world-class problem-solver
Today 2iE is recognized as a 'center of excellence' producing top-notch home-grown African engineers ready to address the continent's problems.
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