Tala al-Jabri is a strategy consultant specializing in socioeconomic development and transformational government interventions in the Middle East and East Africa. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/tala-al-jabri/rss en Laws & Policy Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:51:22 +0000 Tala al-Jabri https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/06/20/the-gcc-must-rethink-its-refugee-strategy https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/06/20/the-gcc-must-rethink-its-refugee-strategy With June 20 marking World Refugee Day, Tala al-Jabri, a Syrian-Palestinian strategist in development economics, calls upon the GCC states that have not ratified the 65-year-old U.N. refugee convention to modernize their immigration policies.