El Nahda Association for Cultural and Scientific Renaissance was established in 1998 in Cairo and it is registered in Egypt with the number 4499. It came out of an initiative of Jesuit priests and brothers and some Muslim and Christian figures who take a special interest in cultural, civic and artistic life in Egypt as well as and many other subjects regarding Egyptian citizens and their urgent need for a scientific and cultural renaissance.
The Association began its work by taking into consideration the role of culture in human development. Therefore it attempts to create connections between the creativity and the discovery of hidden energies in each citizen.
After realizing some cultural activities without being legally recognized, the founders of the Association decided to step through the legal procedures to register it in order to ensure the continuity of its activities and be formally fully cooperative with local society.
Our Vision
We work with children and young people to help them to build a thinking mind and a loving heart. We push them to be creative, original and creative and to try to change the reality in a positive way. We work together to carry the message of our Association and to create a strong society that lives in relationship and reciprocity.
Our Message
El Nahda Association stands solidly behind human beings. It works with children and youth by teaching them to become emancipated, to find their own ways and opportunities and to vindicate their right to be educated, to express their own ideas and practice those forms of art that better represent their problems.
Our Goals
-Help people to be creative, critic and free
– Spread the opportunities to practice the art and freedom of expression
– Contribute to encourage children and youth to face local and international changes around them
-Provide a space for integration between different forms of art.

Advancing the studies and practice of journalism and media in Egypt.

Sustainable Development for Fragile Ecosystems.

Just like The Anna Lindh Foundation, ICARCH Gallery attempts to promote dialogue between cultures. This is why the focus of our projects are everywhere in this world where we believe a certain problem can be solved, or improved upon, by a significant and beneficial architectural gesture. Thus, we had projects in Paris, Florence, Chicago, Brasilia, and now Alexandria and Cairo.
Indeed, a peaceful and creative dialogue between cultures, across time and space is our main objective.
ICARCH stands for International Competitions in Architecture.
It also hints, sufficiently well, towards Icarus, Daedalus' son, who perished when he dangerously approached the Sun.
The name ICARCH has a few other meanings, but these are more obscure and we choose to leave them aside, for now.
ICARCH came into being from a deeply seated belief that architecture should be again intimately connected with broader cultural issues. It tries nothing else but to build bridges between diverse cultural fields, generally not connected with architecture.
More than this, it tries to "personalize" again architecture by re-connecting it with the "story of life" at a time when everything seems to point towards an increased abstractization and depersonalization, not to say alienation...! But how to "tell a story" through architecture is not very easy... perhaps a possible answer might derive from that intuition Gaston Bachelard had when he stated that a mollusk does not build a house to live in, but lives in order to build its house...!
There is an important difference here. If the "house" is not just another "product" to be quickly possessed and consumed by the voracious "consumer," but the culmination of his / her existential journey, then the house becomes, essentially, the most accurate expression of his / her biography, all the better if that biography had / has a certain relevance. And if the "house" expresses intimately that biography, we can only expect it to be rich, and sufficiently individualized to be able to receive a proper name. Not the name of its architect, but the name of the "author" of that biography, whose expression, in built form, it actually is!
We are interested mainly in "houses." but we use the word "house" in the most generic, almost archetypal way. At bottom, in architecture everything is a "house." A school is "the house of learning," a bank is "the house of money," a church is "the house of god," a library is "the house of books," etc... It is this very primal meaning that interests us, be it "real," or metaphorical.
To end: we can only say, together with Jean-Luc Godard, in his film "Notre Musique," (Our Music) that even a more or less banal castle like Elsinore, in Denmark, could become a very special one, once we learn that it was Hamlet who lived there...!
This is because, all of a sudden, the "house" becomes illuminated by a significant biography, that is, by an "earned life," that is, by a LIVED LIFE!
Thank you,
ICARCH Gallery

ART*
Developing new space for art which can help young artists through the youth exchange programs which they can apply for.*
*preserving the Egyptian cultural heritage in order to enhance the cultural identity.
*integrating the arts and culture in the sustainable development of communities through support and promotion of young artist.
*provide cultural services and the arts to the poor areas.
Education*
*support the creative education programs for student to become active participants in improving their daily lives by critical thinking and problem solving.
*creative education for the children and youth to have learn in interconnected programs which are nationally and internationally.
*Creative education for the parents to encourage and involves them in the education process.
*to help the young people to fined work by improving their education and personal skills.
*Support environmental education in school and community to engage young people in there society and local environments.
*increase community participation by building awareness of the value of environmental education .
*support the programs of voluntary services.
Initiating cooperation and partnerships with NGO's

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Mission: Create an open-access global information resource and virtual library on the range of philanthropic practices in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities worldwide.
Vision: Establishing Muslim philanthropic practices and knowledge as an integral part of the contemporary global philanthropic realm.

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In view of what we have articulated above, we aim at:
* Documenting the role of the Feminist Movement in the Middle East
* Studying the social and cultural contexts affecting the situation of women in the region
* Contributing to the formation of a new generation interested in women’s issues and capable of helping the field
* Helping other NGOs adopt a Gender-conscious perspective in their activities and policies
* Producing short documentary and feature films depicting the lives of women in the region