A Sudanese Woman in her Fight against Despotism The Human Rights Acivist Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim Receives theIbn Rushd Prize 2006 (Berlin) This year’s Ibn Rushd Prize will be awarded to the Sudanese political and human right activist Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, who distinguished herself by her enduring and unyielding fight for women’s rights, freedom of thought […]
Continue ReadingMembers of the jury 2006 Ahmad Faez al-Fawwaz Ahmad Faez al-Fawwaz was born in Riqqa in 1934. After studying medicine in the Syrian University in Damascus (1952-1957) he did his PhD and his specialisation in internal medicine in Berlin at Humboldt University and at the Charitè Hospital in 1967. Since then he had been working […]
Continue ReadingFatima Ahmed Ibrahim Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim was born in 1933 in Khartoum/Sudan. As a daughter of a school teacher she has had an educated and religious upbringing. Even her mother enjoyed a good school education during the British Colonial administration which was quite exceptional at that time. Fatima Ibrahim enrolled in the Umm Durman Secondary […]
Continue ReadingCall for Nomination The Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought will award its Prize 2006 to a politically committed Arab woman who has rendered outstanding services to freedom of thought, equal rights and democracy in the Arab world. For as long as one can think men have held the monopoly on politics in Arab […]
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