<div dir="ltr">Dear Middle East chapter leaders,<div>Happy Eid,<br><div><br><div>Thanks to Raul for his reply below,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm including the Middle East Chapter list to share with them your correspondence. hopefully the issue of the Middle East Bureau will be come to a conclusion during the Beirut ISOC meeting.</div><div>Maybe we can take this email to start a discussion on the role or our expectation -hopefully- of the coming director to the Middle East chapters. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Nadira</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Raul Echeberria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echeberria@isoc.org" target="_blank">echeberria@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi Nadira:</div>
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<div>Thank you very much for your interest in this point. </div>
<div>Middle East continue being a high priority for ISOC and we still have the idea of strengthening our presence in that region. </div>
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<div>I’m very glad I will have the opportunity to participate in the Middle East regional ISOC Chapters meeting and also in the ARAB IGF at the end of November. </div>
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<div>It is true the we haven’t hired yet somebody for the ME regional position. This has been a special year for ISOC due to the changes in the leadership and also because some changes in the structure. </div>
<div>I joined ISOC in August this year, just 2 months ago and I am leading a new group has been formed within ISOC. Global Engagement and Relations. </div>
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<div>This issue is now under my responsibly and 2 months have not been enough time for finishing it. We are working now in our 2015 plan and budget and be sure that the objective of having a ME regional position remain valid. </div>
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<div>I hope to have the opportunity to share a final timeline for fulfilling the position in our next regional meeting in Beiruth. </div>
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<div>Don’t hesitate please in contacting me if you want to discuss anything else related to our objective with regard to Middle East. </div>
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<div>El 05/10/2014, a las 08:02, Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> escribió:</div><div><div class="h5">
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<div>ISOC Chapters in the Middle East have been trying hard to create a geographical entity for the region for its common concerns. Back in October 2013, Walda Roseman wrote: </div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify">"...we will be establishing a </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify">Middle</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify">East</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify">Bureau </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify">and
are recruiting for its first </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify">Bureau</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;text-align:justify"> Director, who will be an Arabic speaker and will be located in the
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<div style="text-align:justify"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:15px">The call for application was done and since then nothing had visualize.</span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">However, the ArabIGF group are doing great incremental work, but the area still need long way to catch-up with the rest of the world. </div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">My comments is not for this particular BoT but to give more attention to this region particularly in the knowledge base in order to have more qualified people in the region. </div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">If you do just a small scan of the Chapter delegate contribution to the discussions from the Middle East Chapters that by itself give an indication. I don't want to put the blame on the language barrier, but it could be more
into the high level of the intellectual discussions members are not aware of it.</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">Truly,</div>
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