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Fiona Cameron has worked with refugees in the UK and Egypt for over fifteen years. Before returning to the UK in 2012 she was working as Educational Director at St Andrew’s Refugee Services (StARS) in Cairo and has remained involved with the organization since then as Chair of the Advisory Board....
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2022
Fiona Cameron has worked with refugees in the UK and Egypt for over fifteen years. Before returning to the UK in 2012 she was working as Educational Director at St Andrew’s Refugee Services (StARS) in Cairo and has remained involved with the organization since then as Chair of the Advisory Board....
Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Mohammed el-Shafei is the Education Officer at the UNHCR. He describes the great efforts Egyptian authorities are making to provide education to refugees. One needs to distinguish between refugees from countries to which the Four Freedoms Agreement applies; the right to property, the right to work...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
UNHCR commended Egypt for affirming its commitment to expand the services available to refugees and asylum seekers in the health sector and ensure sustained access to opportunities in the education sector at the High-Level Officials meeting on 14th and 15th December 2021.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (retired) and former president of the American University of Cairo (AUC) wrote a letter of recommendation to the UNHCR in support of the CAWU learning centre for refugees. The UNHCR never responded (Aug. 2024).
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...
Date of source: Saturday, April 25, 2020
Ṣafāʾ Mūsā, a Sudanese refugee living in Egypt, says “We will die from starvation, not from Corona” thereby pointing at the problems she faces during the holy month of Ramadan. Like Mūsā, many other African refugees in Egypt are affected by the measures taken by the government to fight the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 2, 2019
The Delegation of Egypt affirmed in the meetings of the 64th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, that Egypt is committed to the implementation of the international conventions for combating human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants.
Date of source: Thursday, August 15, 2019
Two interns visited the families of Eritrean students who will start their education at the CAWU-Learning Center on August 26, 2019. The families told them about the hardships in Eritrea and how they were able to travel overland to Egypt. All these families have UNHCR cards and are thus legally in...
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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.