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Q: Is the learning center for Eritrean refugees part of the church?
A: Yes, the Eritrean learning center is part of the church. This is the only Eritrean school we support. The Comboni missionaries also support a Sudanese refugee school in Abassiya. Both schools are part of the Catholic Church. The...
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SENA MEGERSA
Under United States law, a refugee is someone who is located outside of the United States, demonstrates that they were persecuted, or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. A lot of refugees are people under...
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Session 1: 14/02/2021
I came from Sudan to Egypt through the desert, and it was so dramatic. We passed the mountains, and it was so hard. It is not safe at all. My mum at that time was pregnant, but I did not know she was pregnant. I was 17 at that time. But you know, we left Sudan because life...
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Q: How do you feel about wearing uniforms at school? Many schools do so but this is not done at the CAWU Learning Center
Leila: This is an old discussion. For me, when I was a child I used to wear a uniform at school. For me, it is better because before coming to school I was never having to think...
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Victoria (18) is from Congo but was born in Egypt. She has three older brothers, one younger sister, and a three-year-old brother. She is currently living alone with her mother and four siblings as her father passed away in 2020 when he returned to Congo to visit her family and tried to find work...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2021
Being a refugee in a country that is not one’s own is difficult. That person is neither equal to the citizens of the host country, nor are they able to return to their own country. The only effective way to support refugees in any country is through education, giving individual refugees the skills...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
It was a ten-day walk from the village of Erra in Eritrea to Sudan. Aman and Meron, are two students at the CAWU Learning center in Cairo. They left their family behind at age 14 and 17. Annually tens of thousands of Eritreans leave the country to escape the harsh compulsory military service. Just...
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This paper begins by reviewing Egypt’s post-2011 transition prior to 2013, which includes briefs on the 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, the 2012 presidential elections, and unrest and sectarian violence during the period between Ḥusnī Mubārak’s overthrow and the summer of 2013.
Date of source: Monday, July 1, 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...
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For decades now, Egyptian Coptic Christians and Muslims have been citing widely diverging numbers for the percentage of Christians in Egypt. In the absence of reliable, published data, the figures vary wildly, anywhere from 6 to 24 percent of population.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.