THE ZKH FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
founded 1993 in honour of Zenab Kamel Hassan: A defiant Egyptian Moslem Girl who defied everything to get access to an education at all, then to get a University education which in the early twenties meant:
travelling alone to London, joining Clapham High School to get the matriculation, then joining London University, Bedford College to study Science and duly graduate in Chemistry1929 to become:
the first Egyptian girl to graduate in Science in modern times.
Her story of constructive defiance and struggle to set a different role model for Egyptian women and women in the Islamic World is summerized in the foundation booklet (published 1996:"Responding to the Challenges of the twenty first century").
She went on to fight her way into becoming the first woman to teach men Chemistry in Cairo University!
The progressive marginalisation and disempowerment of like-minded and enlightened "rebels" represents a fundamental fulcrum in the study of the mechanisms of relapse of the extremely promising and developmental leap in the whole of the region as led by Egypt after the 1919 revolution and its highly fertile associations and offshoots.
How was this great promise dismembered, marginalised and disempowered with the rise of unitary totalitarianism in politics and in thought/culture/religion, is worthy subject for several doctoral theses?
The Foundation believes that the key to development is re-empowering the disempowered whether these are the poorer, the younger, the non-attached or the feminine or -sadly in totalitarian regimes- the citizenry!.
The establishment of dialogue with all "other" is yet another commitment.(see links for the background philosophy).
tarekaliha@aol.com
doctor@tarekalihassan.com
Board of Trustees
Tarek Ali Hassan, FRCP Chairman
Eng. Ismaiil Osman, vice chairman
Bahieddine el Ibrachy Treasurer
Mohammed El Hamamsy Secretary General
Jane Hassan board member
Links
"responding to the challenges of tomorrow"
other links to Tarek Ali Hassan's work
exhibition of drama-related paintings
ISIS AND RAA: THE DOUBLE CURSE OF THE DISPOSSESSED FEMALE
betrayal and tragic death of the Matriarch.
REVENGE OF THE WRONGED MATRIARCH
OEDIPUS
EXTRAPOLATION ONTO THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
ARTICLES on authorsden.com by Tarek Ali Hassan
Mozart's Don Giovanni and the fear of freedom
Homo sapiens or Homo militaris?
A tough dream in response to September, 11th
Is the concept of cold war an expression of self-damaging Euro-American egocentrism?