Name: Karim Ahmed Kasim

Country: Egypt

Age: 34

Job: Researcher at the AFA

A researcher at the Arab Forum for Alternatives AFA www.afaegypt.org, which is an organization that works for a society in which democratic culture prevails, for a society capable of protecting its rights and defending such rights through a democratic movement built on a scientific ground which safeguards the concept itself from being abused. This will be implemented by providing a space for experts, activists and researchers in the field of civil society who are interested in issues related to the reform/change process in the Arab region, and who have alternative visions seeking to put forward in a scientific and practical way aiming the development of their societies on the basis of Justice, Democracy and Human Rights values.