Florian Kohstall

Florian Kohstall is head of the Freie Universität Berlin Cairo Office. He obtained a PhD on "International cooperation and authoritarian consolidation: Higher Education reforms in Egypt and Morocco" from the University Aix Marseille and Freie Universität Berlin.

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