Florian Kohstall

Florian Kohstall is head of the Freie UniversitÃ¤t Berlin Cairo Office. He obtained a PhD on "International cooperation and authoritarian consolidation: Higher Education reforms in Egypt and Morocco"

A new window for academic freedom in Egypt

The end of Mubarak’s thirty years reign may mark an opportunity to revive the Egyptian universities’ founding ideals as autonomous institutions seeking knowledge for knowledge’s sake.

By Florian Kohstall

/ 14 Mar 2011