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Virtual Activism gives a talk at the Re-inauguration of the Ibn Khaldun Center in Cairo

Marlyn Tadros, Virtual Activism’s Executive Director, attended and presented a talk at the re-inauguration of the Ibn Khaldun Center in Cairo, Egypt. The Center’s director is prominent human rights activist and sociologist Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who had been imprisoned by the Egyptian government for his activism, and had been released and all charges dropped against him in February 2003.

The re-inauguration of the Ibn Khaldun Center took place July 1st, 03 at the Center. This was an all day event with three round-table sessions. The first session, chaired by Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, discussed the Future of Peace in the Middle East; the second session, chaired by Dr. Barbara Ibrahim, discussed the UNDP Arab Human Development Report of 2002; and the third session, chaired by Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim discussed the Future of Democracy in the Middle East. Tadros was a member of a 4-person panel that discussed the UNDP report, and she presented a talk on ICT in the Arab World.

The panels ended at 6.30 p.m. and were followed by a reception which included the reading of a letter sent by Kofi Anan, Secretary General of the UN, to Dr. Ibrahim. Among the reception attendees were US Ambassador to Egypt, as well as other diplomats, journalists, Egyptian intellectuals, and supporters of Drs. Saad and Barbara Ibrahim.