One year after the forced diisappearance of Ahmed Samir Santawy in Egypt, CEU is organising a free online conference on the topic of Academic Freedom in Egypt on January 25, 2022, the anniversary of the popular uprising against Husni Mubrak in 2011. 

Program:

10:30 - 10:45  Welcome Remarks - Shalini Randeria, Rector and President, CEU

10:45 - 11:00  Introducing Ahmed, Introducing the Conference - Dorit Geva, Professor,  Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Ahmed's MA Supervisor, CEU

11:00 - 11:50 Missing Ahmed: Personal Reflections on Ahmed and His Persecution in Egypt - Souheila Yildiz, Zsofi Bacsadi, Ariel Bineth, and CEU peers. Moderator: Dorit Geva, CEU.

12:00 - 12:50 Egypt's Ever-Growing Human Rights Crisis & Amnesty’s Campaign to Free Ahmed - Hussein Baoumi and Denise Tan, Amnesty International. Moderator: Jean-Louis Fabiani, CEU.

Break

13:30 - 13:55  Our Students Ahmed Samir and Patrick Zaki - Vlad Naumescu, CEU; Dorit Geva, CEU; and Rita Monticelli, Univeristy of Bologna (GEMMA consortium). Moderator: Claudio Sopranzetti, CEU.

14:00 - 14:25 Law and Courts in Sisi's Egypt - Mai El-Sadany, The Tahrir Institute for  Middle East Policy. Moderator: Prem Kumar Rajaram, CEU.

14:30- 14:55 Threats to Academic Freedom and the Role of Higher Education Communities - Alex Bell, Scholars at Risk. Moderator: Ariel Bineth, CEU.

15:00 - 16:00 Researching Under the Gun: Conducting Safe and Ethical Research in West Asia and North Africa Today - Jannis Julien Grimm, Freie Universität Berlin. Moderator: Alexandra Kowalski, CEU.

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