The following are selections from the MEMRI Daily Brief series and the MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis series from 2022. They are authored by senior MEMRI scholars and researchers specializing in different countries, regions, and languages – from the Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, South Asia, and Turkey to Africa, Russia/Ukraine, China, and the West – who are regular contributors
AMMAN The Ministry of Social Development’s foster parenting programme, founded in 1965, has placed 1,225 children of unknown parentage with new families. The ministry’s “alternative care” programme, which was founded in 2012, has provided 421 children of known parentage with alternative temporary or permanent homes.