Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Saad Eddin Ibrahim ( Arabic سعد الدين إبراهيم, DMG Saʿd ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm ; * December 3, 1938 in al-Mansura ) is an Egyptian sociologist and human rights activist .

Life

Ibrahim plays a leading role in the Egyptian human rights movement. He is Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo and founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights (Cairo). His wife Barbara Lethem Ibrahim is the director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Philanthropy in Cairo. The Ibrahims have two children, Randa and Amir Ibrahim.

In 2000, the Egyptian State Security Court sentenced him to seven years in prison for allegedly defaming Egypt. However, his defenders argued that the real reason for the conviction was his harsh criticism of the government of Muhammad Hosni Mubarak . The case also attracted international attention and there were protests from many quarters against Egypt's actions. In 2003, the Egyptian Supreme Civil Court finally overturned the conviction and Ibrahim was released from custody.

In August 2008 he was sentenced again for defamation of Egypt, this time to two years probation.

Ibrahim has been Professor of Political Sociology at Indiana University since the academic year 2008/09 and is also currently visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University .

Ibrahim criticizes the support of Western states for autocratic Arab states. For example, support for Egypt must also be linked to compliance with human rights and democratic reforms. A corresponding Council issued Ibrahim claims to US President Barack Obama in an interview before his Cairo speech to the Muslim world on June 4 in 2009.

In recognition of his commitment, Ibrahim received the 2002 Prize for Understanding and Human Rights .

Publications

Ibrahim has published several books and a large number of scientific articles. His studies on Islamic activism and civil society and democracy in the Arab world are particularly important .

• Sociology of the Arab-Israel Conflict
• Arabism in Egypt
• The New Arab Social Order
• The Great Arab Sedition in the Gulf
• Family, Gender and Population in the Middle East
• Egypt, Islam and Democracy

Web links

• Literature by and about Saad Eddin Ibrahim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on unesco.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exiled Egyptian activist sentenced. Al Jazeera English , August 2, 2008, accessed July 7, 2009 . 
2. ^ The Prospect for Democracy in the Middle East: A Conversation with Saad Eddin Ibrahim. In: Logos. March 2005, accessed July 7, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Saad Ibrahim on how Obama can best engage Arab world. (No longer available online.) In: New York Times. May 12, 2009; Archived from the original on May 31, 2009 ; Retrieved July 7, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Prize winners on the Ulrich Zwiener Foundation website , accessed on April 22, 2018.