The Arab-West Foundation is asking for your support for the work our partners in Egypt carry out in difficult circumstances. We need your support to fully fund their work for the remainder of the year.

The Center for Arab-West Understanding in Egypt has become the largest internship provider in Egypt. Most interns find the center through the website of CAWU that was fully upgraded with help of Misereor in 2015. The websites that were upgraded also concern CIDT, AWF and AWR. Necessary work, however, has also led to an unavoidable deficit of 8.191,- and we need your support to help cover those costs.

We, with our Egyptian partners, have published hundreds of articles, supported student interns in writing tens of reports. Interns have also carried out interviews and we have written tens of newsletters throughout the year, organized forum discussions and made visits throughout the country. Too often visitors remain in Cairo and other big cities only but we are capable of taking visitors to locations that are rarely ever visited by non-Egyptians.

Our reporting and documentation shows how complicated issues can be. We are doing this with well-informed sources from Egypt. Different scholars have praised our work for its unique contribution to better understanding of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt that are so often misunderstood due to lack of sufficient information.

Some major reports are forthcoming:

-          The 2014 Egyptian Constitution in Context; Perspectives from Egypt – to be published with Missio (in German) and Tectum (in English)

-          A 180 page issue of our Arab-West Journal about the violence and hate speech following the overthrow of president Morsi on July 3, 2013 (we will print only 100 copies of which the cost needs to be covered through sale)

-          A book on the role of Islamist movements during 2013, to be published with Tectum

Producing these reports, upgrading and maintaining our websites is, however, a costly endeavor. We need your help to carry out our work.

Make your donation a Christmas or holiday gift. You can also donate in honor of a family member, friend or colleague and with this honor them and show them the importance of the work we carry out. Your honoree will be notified of your tribute to them.

You may donateonline, by bank transfer to the bank account of the Arab-West Foundation in the Netherlands: NL35 RABO 0105 7799 62 or by sending a check to the Arab-West Foundation at 's-Gravenweg 400, 2905 LC Capelleaan den Ijssel, The Netherlands.

Please let us know if you want to receive a gift from Egypt in appreciation for gifts of over 300 Euro (gifts listed on our website need to be made – this takes time). Please know that our foundation has ANBI status which means that we are recognized by Dutch authorities as a not for profit organization which makes it possible for Dutch donors to deduct their donation from their tax payments. The work of the Stichting Arab-West Foundation is carried out by volunteers. All donations will be used for work in Egypt.

Please donate now!

In appreciation for your support,

KoenVliegenthart, chairman Stichting Arab-West Foundation, The Netherlands

SawsanGabraAyoub Khalil, chairman of CIDT and CAWU, Egypt

CornelisHulsman, Director CIDT, deputy chairman CAWU and editor-in-chief Arab-West Report, Egypt

Adel Rizkallah, Office and Financial Manager CIDT and treasurer of CAWU, Egypt

Khaled H. Zakaria, researcher and public relations officer CAWU, Egypt