Sherine Ibrahim

Sherine Ibrahim

Profile:

Sherine Ibrahim was formerly Deputy Regional Director for CARE International in the Middle East, responsible for ensuring the quality of CARE’s programmes in the region and working to promote gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment. She started her career in international development as a researcher in Egypt on women’s sexual and reproductive health rights. Since then, Sherine has worked extensively in Egypt, South Asia, the US and Middle East. She holds Masters Degrees from the American University in Cairo and from the London School of Economics and Political Science.


Blog posts

Take a look at news photos of the protests in Egypt that led to the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in February 2011, as I did recently, and it already feels as though you are looking back on a bygone era. At the time, western observers were