Moufid Shehab visits CEMO and commends Ali’s role in exposing the terrorist forces plans for Western public opinion

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Dr. Moufid Shehab, Professor of International Law at Cairo University and the former Minister of Higher Education, visited the Center for Middle East Studies in Paris (CEMO), and met the staff, led by Dr. Abdel Rahim Ali, chief of the Center, and Dr. Ahmed Youssef, the Executive Director.

Shehab expressed his happiness by the distinguished effort offered by the Center to expose the extremist thought and its organizations for European public opinion.

Shehab said that in the light of his remarks our media usually cares about internal affairs without giving adequate attention to world affairs, even though the world lives in the shadow of a communication and information revolution through which it has become more like a small cosmic village.

Shehab added it is imperative for the media discourse to give the same amount of attention that it gives inside especially what relates to responding to rumors and countering the organized campaigns of the forces of terrorism and extremism that moved their battle with Arab regimes abroad.

Hence, the establishment of the well-known Center for Middle East Studies in Paris, which was recently established by Dr. Abdel Rahim Ali who collected some of the best international experts such as: Dr. Ahmed Youssef, Roland Jacquard, Alexander Dell valle, Emmanuel Razavi, Roland Lombardi and Joaquim Veliocas.

In addition to launching the Refernce website and magazine in various languages ​​to convey a True Image of what is happening in the Arab region on the one hand and to address rumors that are trying to promote them, the dark forces fleeing from the Arab region to spread their toxins in Europe on the other hand.

Dr. Shehab stressed that what the center is doing is a great work, especially in that period, which is one of the most difficult periods in our history.

Dr. Shehab explained that the skeptics unfortunately use the human rights and freedoms issues that they originally stand far from it, they use it as a cat’s claw to distort all attempts to confront the forces of terrorism and extremism in the region.

Dr. Shihab expressed his belief that what the center is doing is a parallel path to the path of construction and development at home.

Shihab wished the progress and advancement of the center and its employees, and promised to contribute studies published through the center’s publications.