SHAFIK GABR FOUNDATION

What they do

AS GAPS IN UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE MIDDLE EAST and THE WEST OPEN UP AT MANY LEVELS, THERE is A NEED for SIGNIFICANT BRIDGE-BUILDING and NEW PLATFORMS for PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE COMMUNICATION - PERHAPS MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN MODERN HISTORY. AS POLICY MAKERS ON BOTH SIDES of THE ATLANTIC STRUGGLE to DEAL WITH THE NEW REALITIES, IT is APPARENT to MOST PEOPLE THAT MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING and EMPATHY is DETERIORATING, WITH ALARMING LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS, and THAT THIS NEEDS to BE ACKNOWLEDGED and DEALT WITH IN AN EFFECTIVE and SUSTAINABLE MANNER.THE CORP. WILL FOCUS ON ENCOURAGING DEEPER MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PEOPLE of THE MIDDLE EAST and THE WEST THROUGH AN ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP TARGETING EMERGING LEADERS REPRESENTING A MULTITUDE of SECTORS.THE FELLOWS ARE CHOSEN BY EXPERT PANELS BASED ON COMPETITIVE APPLICATION OVER THE COURSE of FOUR INTERVIEWS and THE CORPORATION and ITS PARTNERS WILL WORK to STRUCTURE AN ITINERARY THAT ALLOWS THEM to EXPLORE ASPECTS of CULTURAL, SOCIAL, and PR