Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil

Background

Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil was born to a Coptic Orthodox family in 1963 in Alexandria, Egypt.

Education

She studied civil engineering at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and after her marriage with Cornelis Hulsman in Alexandria in 1988 she went to the Netherlands and studied at the University of Delft.

Career

AWR was previously called Religious News Service from the Arab World (RNSAW) (1997), and in 2005 founded the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT). Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil also co-founded and first chaired the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU). All three organizations are based in Cairo, Egypt.

As a result, in 1997, she co-founded the Religious News Service from the Arab-World (RNSAW), predecessor of Arab-West Report.

Sawsan Gabra formed the selection criteria for Arab-West Report On a daily basis Sawsan selects articles for translation and coordinates this with the translators and editors. In 2004 Sawsan Gabra became chair of the founders founding the Center for Arab-West Understanding as an Egyptian non-government organization (non-governmental organization).

The procedure took much time but her work was rewarded in January 2008 with the recognition of the non-governmental organization by the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity. Due to the delays in founding the non-governmental organization, she founded the civil company Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation, which has been providing translation and editing services for the weekly Arab-West Report since January 1, 2006.

Sawsan Gabra participated in several investigative reports whereby her Coptic Orthodox background facilitated contacts with Orthodox priests, bishops and organizations.

She has contributed to interpreting events from the Egyptian context. She assisted the Anglican scholar Father Doctor John Watson in his research for his publication "The Transfigured Cross. A Study of Father Bīshūy Kāmilitary," and Coptologist Doctor Otto Meinardus in several of his studies.

Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil has served as "World Servants" country coordinator for Egypt since 1997, and coordinates "World Servants" youth visits to Egypt for cultural exchange.

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Achievements

• Sawsan Gabra is co-founder of Arab-West Report.

Membership

She is also a member of the editorial board of Arab-West Report and provides analytical input for articles written for Arab-West Report.