Success 21 Network in MENA
Beirut, Lebanon was the chosen city by IFID to launch a regional network for its civic education program in 2009. Over the years Success 21 network has been growing steadily, with 18 established members from across 11 Arab countries. It is a registered as a non-for-profit company and has an executive team in Amman/Jordan to ensure its development and sustainability. IFID’s leadership has been critical to the evolution of SN21.
SCW Impact in MENA
The majority of SCW graduates become grassroots advocates of civic values from within their respective local communities and culture. They have also gone on to form, register and lead 18 local centers across various cities. There are now a total of 47 youth groups in 11 countries that are overseen by SN21.
The program’s strength was put to the test during the Arab spring and the turmoil that followed but it remained strong and survived and proved to be universal. SN21 operates its national networks in Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan and some members run programs for women in Saudi Arabia. Most recently, programs have been devised for Syrian and Yemeni groups in Turkey and Jordan, and during the ISIS occupation of Iraqi provinces we were still able to form 5 new local groups.
The region civil development has been impacted by SCW via the following:
1- Getting young people in the region involved in local civic groups: these groups recognize the value of SCW in reaching out to youth and recruiting volunteers. The programs are hugely popular and on constant demand with over one thousand volunteers on long-term commitment and 100 paid staff.
2- Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Algeria are widely regarded as closed societies with restrictions yet IFID has been successful in providing platforms and strengthening civic actors within the three countries.
3- Our work and mentoring of young people has led our network members and youth graduates to launch prominent and much needed civic campaigns, such as the Farewell to Arms in Iraq and Social Mobilization against Extremism in Tunis.
4- As we have expanded over the years so has the demands and needs from educational institutes such as private and public high schools have grown. SCW course are in such great demand that these schools have paid to have trainers run courses on their premises, these schools are diverse so one of the schools is in the Shia city of Najaf in Iraq, a Catholic school in Palestine, and in several schools in Morocco. a private university in Iraq have also requested to deliver SCW to their students.
5- unity in a divided societies is hard to achieve but our programme has broken this mould and supported young people to work together. This is due to the appeal of SCW civic values which the majority if not all of these young people belief and respect For example, during an intense period of Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum, our partners were the first to launch social-media campaigns to counter wide-spread hate messages.
AAEME
An independent association for enlightened Muslim educators in the Arab world (the Arab Association for enlightened Muslim Educators) was incubated by IFID in an attempt to give voice to moderate Muslim educators and encourage a more enlightened version of religious education in Muslim countries. Amman, Jordan was the destination that was chosen to host the meeting which was attended by more than 40 established organizations from all over the Arab world, nearly one third of the participants attended on their own expenses.
AAEME is now a registered NGO in Amman and has its own executive team and board of trustees.
IFID’s Arabic publication Al Rassid Al Tanweeri, from 2007-2016 was transferred to AAEME under a new editorial team with a new name; ‘’Altanweeri-The Enlightened’’. Al Tanweeri produces hard and electronic copy and is overseen by Ms Hajar Alkuhtany; the editor in chief of Al Tanweeri and a trustee at AAEME.
Al Rassid Al Tanweeri
Al Rassid Al Tanweeri (The Enlightened Monitor), is the Arabic publication produced and put together by IFID. Al Rassid Al Tanweeri has deepened the self-critical tradition which is the core foundation of the organization, it also proved to be exceptional in dealing with sensitive and important issues such as the lack of think tanks and deterioration of higher education in the Muslim world. The responses that we have gained from the readers of Al Rassid Al Tanweeri and the debates it brings up have been very encouraging.
Over the last five years, IFID has witnessed a noticeable increase in projects and from the 1st September 2011, a new dynamic and young executive director was appointed to further the organisation’s vision. In that light, a strengthened Board of Directors and an exemplary advisory board became more appropriately arranged in the structure of the organization.
Islam21
During its first decade of existence IFID built an independent platform for Muslim thinkers, activists and opinion leaders to discuss contemporary Muslim issues from a problem solving perspective. Between the years of 1994 to 2001 IFID produced 24 issues of its flagship journal ‘’Islam21’’ in English and Arabic.
Islam21 reflected on critical issues such as Political Islam, Islam and Violence, Islam and modern civil values.
New challenges for Muslims emerged after the events of 9/11 as the struggle to exist in modern society became more visible.
Realising the need for a proactive approach IFID began developing its civic education program the ‘Success in a Changing World ‘ (SCW) which would encourage and train young Muslims to engage in constructive discussions about Islam and the modern world.
Success 21 Network in MENA
Beirut, Lebanon was the chosen city by IFID to launch a regional network for its civic education program in 2009. Over the years Success 21 network has been growing steadily, with 18 established members from across 11 Arab countries. It is a registered as a non-for-profit company and has an executive team in Amman/Jordan to ensure its development and sustainability. IFID’s leadership has been critical to the evolution of SN21.
SCW Impact in MENA
The majority of SCW graduates become grassroots advocates of civic values from within their respective local communities and culture. They have also gone on to form, register and lead 18 local centers across various cities. There are now a total of 47 youth groups in 11 countries that are overseen by SN21.
The program’s strength was put to the test during the Arab spring and the turmoil that followed but it remained strong and survived and proved to be universal. SN21 operates its national networks in Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan and some members run programs for women in Saudi Arabia. Most recently, programs have been devised for Syrian and Yemeni groups in Turkey and Jordan, and during the ISIS occupation of Iraqi provinces we were still able to form 5 new local groups.
The region civil development has been impacted by SCW via the following:
1- Getting young people in the region involved in local civic groups: these groups recognize the value of SCW in reaching out to youth and recruiting volunteers. The programs are hugely popular and on constant demand with over one thousand volunteers on long-term commitment and 100 paid staff.
2- Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Algeria are widely regarded as closed societies with restrictions yet IFID has been successful in providing platforms and strengthening civic actors within the three countries.
AAEME
An independent association for enlightened Muslim educators in the Arab world (the Arab Association for enlightened Muslim Educators) was incubated by IFID in an attempt to give voice to moderate Muslim educators and encourage a more enlightened version of religious education in Muslim countries. Amman, Jordan was the destination that was chosen to host the meeting which was attended by more than 40 established organizations from all over the Arab world, nearly one third of the participants attended on their own expenses.
AAEME is now a registered NGO in Amman and has its own executive team and board of trustees. https://arabaeme.org/
IFID’s Arabic publication Al Rassid Al Tanweeri, from 2007-2016 was transferred to AAEME under a new editorial team with a new name; ‘’Altanweeri-The Enlightened’’. Al Tanweeri produces hard and electronic copy and is overseen by Ms Hajar Alkuhtany; the editor in chief of Al Tanweeri and a trustee at AAEME.
http://arabaeme.org/
Al Rassid Al Tanweeri
Al Rassid Al Tanweeri (The Enlightened Monitor), is the Arabic publication produced and put together by IFID. Al Rassid Al Tanweeri has deepened the self-critical tradition which is the core foundation of the organization, it also proved to be exceptional in dealing with sensitive and important issues such as the lack of think tanks and deterioration of higher education in the Muslim world. The responses that we have gained from the readers of Al Rassid Al Tanweeri and the debates it brings up have been very encouraging.
Over the last five years, IFID has witnessed a noticeable increase in projects and from the 1st September 2011, a new dynamic and young executive director was appointed to further the organisation’s vision. In that light, a strengthened Board of Directors and an exemplary advisory board became more appropriately arranged in the structure of the organization.
https://altanweeri.net/
Islam21
During its first decade of existence IFID built an independent platform for Muslim thinkers, activists and opinion leaders to discuss contemporary Muslim issues from a problem solving perspective. Between the years of 1994 to 2001 IFID produced 24 issues of its flagship journal ‘’Islam21’’ in English and Arabic.
Islam21 reflected on critical issues such as Political Islam, Islam and Violence, Islam and modern civil values.
New challenges for Muslims emerged after the events of 9/11 as the struggle to exist in modern society became more visible.
Realising the need for a proactive approach IFID began developing its civic education program the ‘Success in a Changing World ‘ (SCW) which would encourage and train young Muslims to engage in constructive discussions about Islam and the modern world.