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Read more: Ideas Beyond Borders Recognized at the 2026 .ORG Impact AwardsSelected from more than 4,200 submissions worldwide, IBB earned a place among the finalists for Quality Education for All.
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Read more: The Work That Gives Peace a ChanceAcross the Middle East and Afghanistan, people are expanding access to knowledge and building opportunities in their own communities. IBB helps them carry that…
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Read more: The Next Twenty-Five Years Cannot Look Like the LastFaisal Saeed Al Mutar grew up in Iraq through the wars that followed 9/11. Now IBB’s president, he reflects on what that experience taught…
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Read more: Bringing Arab Voices to a Global AudienceIBB partner Shezomedia is expanding into English after nine years of covering the debates shaping the Arab world.
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Read more: What Readers Across the Middle East Are Searching For: Power, Law, and Economic IdeasFrom political leaders in Iran to debates on capitalism, the same questions keep resurfacing—how power works, how law holds, and what shapes real outcomes.
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Read more: Before Dawn, Behind Closed Doors, and Across the Street: Women at Work in the Middle EastFrom underground classrooms to parliament floors, six stories of women shaping daily life across the region.
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Read more: Women of Bayt al-Hikma 2.0: Translators on Work, Expectations, and Ideas in the Middle EastMeet four translators bringing books, debates, and new ideas into Arabic.
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Read more: When Restricted Ideas Meet a Willing Audience in the Arab WorldHouse of Wisdom 2.0 spent 2025 translating and debating classical liberal ideas in Arabic—not to provoke controversy, but to test whether serious arguments would…
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Read more: Q4 2025 Review: Schools Remained Open. Laws Moved Forward. Access Expanded.In the final quarter of 2025, several things happened that rarely make headlines: In Kurdistan, business registration dropped from months to a single day;…
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Read more: When Information Finds a Way Out: Bypassing Censorship from Iran to AfghanistanIn parts of the Middle East where access to knowledge is tightly controlled, people are finding new paths to connection — from underground Starlink…