A new back channel has opened up in Arab-U.S. relations, based on doing business from the bottom up. That’s what I concluded after attending the Ashoka Arab world Social Innovation conference in Cairo last year, and which I wrote about for the Global Post:

“In the last decade, the dialogue between the U.S. and the Arab Muslim world has focused on radical Islam, terror, security, profiling and, occasionally, oil. Those topics still dominate media coverage, but since President Barack Obama’s 2009 “new beginning” speech in Cairo, a new back channel has opened — entrepreneurship.”

Read full opinion piece here….