Karim-Yassin Goessinger
كريم ياسين جوسنجر
Karim-Yassin Goessinger studied political philosophy and urbanism in the Netherlands, Brazil and France. He worked with different development agencies in Latin America and the Middle East in fields including micro-finance, informal housing and local governance. A Dalai Lama and Donella Meadows Fellow, he enjoys martial arts, languages, world music, cooking and tea. After his graduate studies at Sciences Po Paris, he founded the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS). At CILAS, he has coordinated the field of study Social Sciences and has directed the yearlong study programme in the liberal arts between 2013 and 2016. At the American University in Cairo, he convened two sociology courses in 2016 and 2017.
Writing
On the Emergence of Pigeon Towers - Foreword
The term “Ivory Tower” conjures up images of carefully and often symmetrically landscaped university squads, concerns with dogmatic and increasingly corporate…
8 minon ir-regular documentation (retrieved from the archives)
it has been 55 days since the first year students' graduation ceremony and 30 days until the beginning of the second academic year at CILAS. A result of this…
2 min
as we transition from the normative to the empirical realm
in trimester two (January 3rd to March 15th, 2015), CILAS is offering eight thematic courses: two per field of study. Thematic courses are of a duration of ten…
1 min
