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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...
Inclusive Citizenship is a dream of many people in our world today. The definition of inclusive citizenship, as I understand it, is the granting of full rights of citizenship to all people regardless of their religion, ethnicity, gender, color, socio-economic status etc. It signifies not just...
Introduction: Inclusive citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization and participation to explore a related set of issues around changing conceptions of citizenship. Peoples’ understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of various...
Dr. Tarek al-Gawhary, MA Azhar University, PhD Princeton University, advisor to Sheikh Dr. Ali Goma’a. explained the thought process in Islamic Law and how a Muslim jurist can think about the concept of inclusive citizenship in a historical context. The basis is in the Constitution of Medina or the...
The Bishop Paula of Tantā has said that the items of the new Personal Status Law for non-Muslims will be discussed soon along with Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church. In an interview, he revealed that several items were related to marriages, including the need for churches to officially...
Following six years of work, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has launched the “Map of Religious Freedoms” that will serve as a reference for all matters relating to freedom of religion and belief, and violations of this right. The information from the interactive map covers the time...
The embassies of the United States of America, France, Germany and Italy have warned the Swedish, Dutch, Danish and Finnish embassies of retaliatory attacks against nationals following instances of burnings of the Qurʾān in front of Turkish embassies by Swedish and Dutch nationals. These acts have...
Sinai University has summoned Maī ʿAbdullah, a dentistry student in the first grade, to be investigaed on charges of contempt of religion, after she has been accused of insulting the prophet Mūḥammad, and mocking the ḥijāb and heaven, as well as adherents of Islam. The dean of the faculty of...
Speaking during the 67th session of UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, Dr Māyā Morsī, president of the National Council for Women in Egypt, has called for more recognition of the role played by sharīʿa in the emancipation of women, and the Qurʾān for recognising their important role and...
Dr. Ibrāhīm Najm, a senior advisor to Egypt’s Grand Muftī, has reviewed the efforts of the Dar al-Iftāʾ in combating extremism, during a meeting with a delegation from the European Parliament, led by Tomáš Zdechovský. He cited the various initiatives enacted by the Dar al-Iftāʾ to confront...

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