Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2019
When an opportunity presented itself for a seventeen year old female refugee from South Sudan to flee, she took it. However, upon arriving to Cairo, she was imprisoned in a residential apartment for three months where she was repeatedly raped. After this horrifying experience, she discovered that...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Anna-Maria Horschig, Bachelor of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, came for an internship to the Center for Arab-West Understanding through AIESEC-Ain Shams University. AIESEC had a number of cancellations of internships at other organizations in Egypt which explains why we had this year more...
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: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
The interview with Ambassador Mona Omar was held at the Diplomatic Club, in Cairo on 7th July; the discussion was fully recorded with the Ambassador’s permission. This text was presented to Ambassador Mona Omar on July 21, 2019. The Ambassador had no objections to publishing this text.
Ambassador...
Date of source: Sunday, March 23, 2008
Magdy Malak reflects on the scope and power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and bemoans the lack of any real opposition parties that are able to compete with the ruling National Democratic Party.
Date of source: Sunday, July 26, 2009
Christian places of prayer subjected to increasing attacks
Date of source: Thursday, August 29, 2019
As talk increases of the possible collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in light of recently emerged developments, the spotlight has begun to focus on the ‘Muslim Sisters’. A former Muslim Brotherhood leader describes them as “fiercer” than their male counterpoints, and experts consider them...
Date of source: Monday, September 9, 2019
Doctor Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumʿah, Egyptian Minister of Awqāf, has announced his decision to allocate a session of the 30th International Conference of the Islamic Affairs Supreme Council to the topic of women’s role in state-building. The conference, titled “Nation-building in Jurisprudence…A Modern...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Dr. Najlāʾ al-ʿAdlī, head of the international cooperation and external communications committee for the National Council for Women, delivered a speech during the second session of the Specialized Technical Committee of the African Union for Transport and Trans-boundary Infrastructure, Regions,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The visual artist Injī Aflāṭūn, whose birthday was honored by Google Doodle, was born on April 16th, 1924, and passed away on April 1989.