Date of source: Monday, May 31, 2021
The Refugee Leadership Training Project was initiated by the Center for Arab-West Understanding with support by EO Metterdaad in 2019 with a mission to support community development amongst refugees in Cairo. The RLT project commenced in February 2020 and was completed in spring 2021. The project...
Date of source: Saturday, October 26, 2024
According to a legislator, international accords governing refugee conditions were consulted to develop the new draft law on foreigner asylum to Egypt, which the House of Representatives Defense & National Security Committee recently adopted.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
In countries where Islamic law or sharīʿa is constitutionally mandated, women experience significant impacts on their lives in both the public and private sphere. In Sudan, activists from different currents work hard to elevate their legal status with regard to Islamic jurisprudence and solve the...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II expressed his extreme disapproval at the events unfolding in Palestine, where bombing, devastation, and killing were taking place. He stated that “Our hearts are in pain at what is happening in Gaza, and at the large numbers of deaths and victims, as well as the wounded and the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Manpower Committee, Sūlāf Darwīsh, has praised comments made by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, about the misuse of the term ‘freedoms’ by the West. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb had stated that the world was in need of religion to help solve the...
Date of source: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Egypt is considered one of the foremost countries in the world when it comes to welcoming migrants of different nationalities. The United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration estimated that in 2022 over 9 million migrants, from over 133 different countries, were living in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, September 8, 2022
Unlike the Netherlands, there are no social security benefits for refugees in Egypt, a country that is already struggling with close to 30% of the population living below the new global poverty line that has been set at $2.15 using 2017 prices. This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day...
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Q: Can you introduce yourself?
A: A: I am Abduselam Abdella, one of the founders of the Faysal Community School. We opened in the academic year 2018-2019. Our school has three regular school branches and one technical school. Our main branch is Kafr Thazmos branch. This is where everything started...
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I am Yassir, I am Eritrean and an engineer by profession, and I am the primary director of the Al-Tani branch. I also designed the website for the school, and I am in charge of another branch that we have, the Faysal Sudanese Technical school in Cairo which was opened in the year 2021-2022. The...
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This interview was, in my view, a mess. The principal, Silvio, does not know English, so he brought a translator, a teacher from his English department, his English was, in my view, very bad and I barely could understand him. I had the opportunity to meet with 3 students in the English section,...