User:IbrahimElgendy

Ibrahim Elgendy has focused his career on professional activities to promote secular and democratic reform in the Middle East. He has worked as a criminal prosecutor, journalist, editor and Arabic Language teacher. He is presently an Arabic Language Instructor at the State Departments, Foreign Service Institute, providing language instruction and cultural awareness and skill development to foreign service diplomats and other federal officers.

Previous experience includes Arabic Language teaching and cultural training in a variety of organizational settings in the Washington DC area teaching in classroom, intensive and in both college, professional development, and military settings. He is a well-known journalist in Egypt and known by Arabic speaking authors and readers world wide for his insightful and provocative views related to secular society and the interface of religion and civil society. Mr. Elgendy received his Bachelor's degree in Legality and Law from Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt in 1989. He has lived in the Washington DC areas since 2002