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Date of source: Thursday, August 9, 2018
How should we assess the endless stream of media reports and images that we are exposed to daily? On July 2, 2018, Matthew Sparks (M.A., Georgetown University) facilitated an important and evocative discussion of this question and introduced Arab-West Report, the massive electronic database...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Belgian intern Cleo Mampaey interned between January 17 and June 3, 2019, with the Center for Arab-West Understanding. During her internship, she visited Belgian prisoner Lesley Maras who has been in an Egyptian prison since 2006 because he had been so stupid to accept wrong counseling to take...
Date of source: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Cornelis Hulsman and interns of the Center for Arab-West Understanding have frequently contributed to the Maadi Messenger, a community magazine that is distributed in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. This is also where the office of Arab-West Report is located.
This time the Maadi Messenger asked Cornelis...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
In a quiet Maʿādi suburb in Cairo, Dr. Sammy Muthini Muthuka, Kenyan professor at the Africa Nazarene University, Nairobi, is set to give a two-part, two day lecture about conflict resolution and peace building. These took place on September 24, 2019 and October 1, 2019. His audience are mostly...
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2019
Earlier this year, a group of five interns from Arab-West Report had the privilege of visiting emeritus professor Abdallah Schleifer at his home in Cairo. Prof. Schleifer is a prominent Middle East expert, former journalist, and leading Muslim intellectual who was among the group of...
Date of source: Thursday, November 21, 2019
Prof. Dr. Sami Faltas at the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU). 04-11-2019
From left to right: Prof. Faltas, Veronica Merlo, Madeleine Hall (interns), Kent Blaeser (database manager) and Cornelis Hulsman (director)
On Monday, November 4th, the team of the Center for Arab-West...
Date of source: Sunday, July 7, 2019
Program Summer school 2019
The Center for Arab-West Understanding in cooperation with the Anglican Diocese of Egypt
Program title: Moving Forward Together: Muslims and Christians together in Egyptian Society
Period: July 2-July 6 and July 8. Sunday July 7 was a day off.
Organized by the SGP,...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
This text was earlier posted on July 29, 2019, on the SEKEM website and placed with permission of SEKEM in the Arab-West Report database. The Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) organized in 2018 a summer school with the Heliopolis University. In 2019 these became two summer schools; one...
Date of source: Thursday, November 21, 2019
Photo by Veronica Merlo, 06-09-2019
“Medina cosmopolitiya” (“a cosmopolitan city”) has traditionally been the defining expression associated with Alexandria of Egypt. Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria has distinguished itself as a place of constant interaction where people from...
Date of source: Thursday, November 21, 2019
The students of the Learning Center at the Citadel of Qaitbay. Photo by Cornelis Hulsman
Sun, sea and blue sky
When the students of the Learning Center of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) arrived in Alexandria on the morning of Friday, November 8, they could not but being...
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