Month: November 2012

Laudatio on the occasion of the awarding of the 14th Ibn Rushd Prize on November 30, 2012 to Razan Zaituneh, at the Museum of Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Prof. Udo Steinbach We have to do without their physical presence among us today. It is not the first time that laureates are prevented from receiving […]

Members of the Jury of Ibn Rushd Prize 2012 Taoufik Ben BrikTaoufik Ben Brik was born in 1960 as the son of a trade unionist in Jérissa, a town in the mining region in north eastern Tunisia. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Tunis, but eventually abandoned his studies. In 1988, he joined […]

Razan Zaitouneh Razan Zaitouneh was born in 1977 in Syria. In 1999 she completed her studies at the faculty of law in Damascus and initiated her work as a lawyer in 2001. Her main focus is in human rights. Since 2001 she has been a member of a group of lawyers which take it upon […]

Call for Nomination The Ibn Rushd Fund is seeking nominations for the 2012 Ibn Rushd Award:a young activist of the Arab Spring who peacefully fights for a democratic state The revolutions and political upheaval in Syria and Tunisia, in Egypt and Yemen, demonstrations and protests in further Arab countries – without the unconditional dedication of young […]