Knowledge Society, Education, and Research

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16-21 December 2006
Annual Conference on Contemporary Arab Philosophy: "Citizen and Citizenship"
Since 2003, SwedAlex hosts this pan-Arabic conference under the auspices of the Minister of Religious Affairs, Dr M Hamdi Zaqzouq. The program begins in Cairo, 16-18 December, and continues in Alexandria, 19-21 December.

25-27 November 2006
"Euro-Arab Dialogue: The Image of Arabo-Islamic Culture in European History Books"
This meeting of experts marks the third phase.

16-19 October 2006
Arab Research Leaders Delegation to Sweden
Visit to Sweden by a delegation of Arab research leaders for the annual meeting of the Joint Technical Committee for the MENA Research Links programme, involving: Sida, the Swedish Research Council, ASRT (the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Research and Technology), as well as several Arab universities and institutions of higher learning.

4 March 2006
Image of the Other
The Egyptian Commission for the Revision of Schoolbooks under the auspices of the Ministry for Higher Education; meeting of the steering committee including UNESCO, the Arab League and SwedAlex.

20-21 December 2005
The Philosophy of Freedom
Annual conference of the Arab Philosophical Societies under the leadership of Professor Hassan Hanafi (Egypt).

3-5 October 2005
International Research Cooperation
Visit to Sweden by a delegation of Arab research leaders for the annual meeting of the Joint Technical Committee for the MENA Research Links programme.

27-30 September 2005
Teachers’ Training Programme 
A Seminar (in Swedish) with faculty from the Stockholm College of Education, led by Dr Eskil Franck.

9-11 September 2005
Academic Freedom in Africa and the Arab World
A Conference organized joint by UNESCO (the Regional Scientific Committee for Arab States of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge).

22-23 August 2005
Second Meeting on Children’s Literature in the Arab World
Follow-up of the 1st meeting, Alex 13-15 Feb, 2005

13-15 April 2005
Scandinavian-Arab Research Conference on Arabic Literature and Linguistics
Nordic-Arabic conference, organized in cooperation with Uppsala University.

21 March 2005
Egyptology between North and South
A joint mini-workshop between archaeologists and Egyptologists from Uppsala University and the Graeco Roman Museum, Alexandria.

13-15 February 2005
Children’s Literature in the Arab World
To discuss a structure, methods and an action plan for how to develop Sida’s (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) Children’s Literature Programme with reading activities.