December 30, 2021
Julie Lorentzen, Head of Division, Department of Management and Communication, Health and Care Administration at Københavns Kommune. Photo by Photo by Jakob Pagel Andersen

A new motivation

Meeting Egyptian women in leadership positions not only gave Julie Lorentzen a better understanding of life in Egypt. It also made her learn something about herself and her own country.
December 30, 2021
Ambassdors for dialogues facilitated a workshop in Wadi El Gdedd this year. Photo: AFD

AFD in El Wadi El Gdeed

We were contacted to do a workshop in December 2020 in El Wadi El Gdeed governerate. We were thrilled because it will be the first time since the project started to have any events there.
December 30, 2021

Meeting up in Amman

Coming from all walks of life and four countries the ambassadors of dialogue to come joined together in Amman and learned about empathy, active listening, acknowledging […]
December 20, 2021
DEDI Bilingual Design Furniture Exhibition

Making new ways

Mix ancient Egypt with Danish minimalism, talented designers, and experienced craftsmen, and you get 13 unique stools. Danish-Egyptian dialogue on the floor of a factory in Damietta is a recipe for innovation.
December 17, 2021

Entertaining Dialogues

Bullying, violence among children, gender-based violence, women empowerment and youth leadership skills were among the focal issues to the initiatives selected for the Dialogical Edutainment Academy […]
December 17, 2021

Smashing the glass ceiling

To Mayar Darwish, the Women Take the Lead Network has been both eye-opening and empowering. She is planning to share her experience with her team of women at Pepsico.
December 17, 2021
The participants enjoyed a full day visiting the organisation Very Nile at Qursaya Island. Here they explored the process behind Very Nile's up cycling projects and discussed urban sustainability. Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI

Green networks

After attending the two international workshops of DEDI Green Gate project, Danish Tamar Bashary and Egyptian Manar Ramadan have no doubts when it comes to their new friendships being uniqe.
December 13, 2021
Ruwan Hamdy, photographer, and Rowan Abbas, textile artist, enjoying a moment in the shadow while talking about their projects for DEDI Art Symposium "After Confinement- A Tale of Two Cities". Photo by Rowan El Shimi // DEDI

Reflections on Water

Eight artists, two cities, two weeks and a river were the main elements in the program of the first DEDI Artists’ Symposium, “After Confinement – At […]
December 6, 2021
DEDI Alumni Club talks Gamification

Meeting again

Making it possible to stay connected, learn more and continue the dialogue and exchange, DEDI Alumni Club has invited the members to attend some 12 meetings […]
November 29, 2021
Teachers in Quena are all in to using art as a tool for engaging their young pupils actively when teaching the difficult curriculum of “values”.

How to teach values

To eight years old kids in primary school, values like compassion and proficiency might seem rather abstract so the teachers are eager to find ways of […]