Interview with Saad Ibrahim

Status: Completed
Saad Ibrahim
Founder
Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies
Areas of expertise: Political Reform, Civil Society Activism

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Emeritus Professor at American University in Cairo and founding chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Cairo, Egypt and serves on numerous international boards. Ibrahim is one of the Arab world’s most prominent political sociologists, who has published widely on Islam, politics, democracy and civil society. After being arrested and exiled from 2007 to 2011, he returned to Egypt where he currently writes in the independent press and advises new political groups and young activists working to establish a democratic civil state.

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All Questions
usman Tanko Ibrahim
Afghanistan 		How much can a recipeint of a microcredit drop for the runing of the group to prevent usury which is unislamic?
Domagoj
Croatia 		what do you think about world hunger
Mr.K.punniyamoorthy
Sri Lanka 		how you feel ,13nth amendments is the correct solution for the SriLankan ethnic problems?
Md. Ghulam Murtaza
Bangladesh 		What do you think is the real reason for the cry for democracy in countries like Libya, Egypt and others despite the ruler's claim that the citizens were enjoying ample facilities? Is the call for democracy merely an offshoot of the citizens' clamor for change, or something deeper?
Abdul Waheed Khan
Pakistan 		How the political reform will come into Pakistan whether through the present government or change government
RYUMUGABE Sam
Rwanda 		What is the real cause of the global economic/financial crisis? and what are the broad measures to deal with this crisis?
Md. Shahriar Rahman
Bangladesh 		Don't you think that the recent 'Arab Spring' is the result of the socio-psychological gap of expectation and observation between the rulers and the young? The changing trend of demand in young minds is the hidden seed of revolution all over the world. My so called knowledge forced me to think so.
陸藝
China 		您好，我是一名中國人，請問Ibrahim先生，若是中國要形成一個底蘊很深的經濟發展基礎，您覺得最簡單要發展哪些方面？ 謝謝。
kovan kurdistani
Iraq 		What if groups in the middle east formed organizations that had nothing to do with politics? By this people would create org. Based on interest and hobbies, instead of materializing gov. Objectives.
Mr. Hwang
Korea, Rep. 		What do you think about religious dogma being above the law; that laws don't apply to the whole civil society
François Xavier BOUSSOUGOU
Gabon 		Which solution have you to fight corruption and unjustice in africa french speeking countries ?
Liz
China 		What role does the Islam play in the Arab world? How religion affect the political situation such as the relationship between Israel and Palestine?
Omer Karasapan
Turkey 		In the aftermath of numerous meetings with youth and the Bank's enhanced presence in the social media and the blogosphere, what more should the Bank be doing in reaching out to Egyptian youth and what areas should we focus our financial, analytic and other efforts on to make a difference?