Date of source: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
From August 17-24 the Forum for Development, Culture and Dialogue (FDCD) organized its 10th annual International Work and Study Camp under the title “Promoting Peace through Inter-religious Dialogue.” Farah de Haan from our Center for Arab-West Understanding participated and wrote about her...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
AWR: On June 29, our friend Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab (Mahmoud Azzab) suddenly passed away. He meant a lot to Arab-West Report. Intern Alastair White translated this article about him.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Intern Aidan and Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab (Mahmoud Azzab) on June 19, 2013 about the Bayt Al-‘A’ila (Bayt al-Aila), the Azhar initiated center for Muslim-Christian dialogue. Bayt Al-‘A’ila is Arabic for House of the Family, that is presenting Muslims and Christians in Egypt as...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab was the Advisor of the Azhar’s Grand Imām for Dialogue Affairs and Director of the Azhar’s Center of Dialogue. He passed away on Sunday June 29, 2014, at the age of 59, due to a heart attack. He was a staunch advocate for dialogue and was outspoken about the need to renew the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 2014
The extreme violence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the war between Israel and Gaza has resulted in emotional demonstrations in different countries in the West. Some of these took place in July and August in the Schilderswijk, a densely populated quarter in The Hague, The...
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
A specter is haunting Egypt: the specter of social apartheid. We thought that the revolution had swept away the old barriers between the Egyptian social classes, but my experience in Ezbet Al-Hagana led me to question this assumption.
In order to examine the validity of...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
The Emarat Al-Insan (buildings of people) is a non-governmental Organization (NGO) that was founded in September 2005. The main founders were architect Nagwa Raouf and her daughter Maha, who are deeply motivated to use their skills to help improving the housing of the poor. The Foundation was the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
The Emarat al-Insan Foundation does an extraordinary amount of good work: it helps to buy land and build homes for poor families as well as running courses at its center. We went to its main building in the Cairene district of ‘Ezbet al-Hagana, via metro, taxi and tok-tok, to eat a delicious iftār...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
This interview was arranged by Cornelis Hulsman for Omar Ali’s research on Political Party institutionalization in Egypt. The interview took place on June 1, 2014. It took place in English, was recorded and was attended by both. Omar Ali made the transcript, which was edited by Cornelis Hulsman and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 2014
This interview was arranged by Cornelis Hulsman for Omar Ali’s research on political party institutionalization in Egypt. The interview was attended by both and took place on June 1, 2014. The interview started in Arabic but after the first response continued in English. Omar Ali made the...