Awareness for Research and Development

About the Foundation

Knowledge that preserves memory.
Awareness that builds the future.

An independent academic institution focused on research, documentation and culture, working to build individual and collective awareness.

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One institution.
Many horizons of knowledge.

An independent scientific body based on the sciences, arts, literature, and all types of knowledge related to building individual and collective awareness. It is not only based on analysis and forecasting of the future in scientific, political, economic and other issues, but rather it makes history, documentation, monitoring and blogging platforms a prominent axis of its launch.

Our purpose and direction

A vision to guide us. A mission to pursue.

Vision, mission and values
01 / Vision

People at the heart of our vision.

Building an integrated humane, civilized vision for the human being in the twenty-first century, which seeks life in the best possible ways and raises the importance of basic values and principles among human beings.

02 / Mission

Many paths to knowledge.

The Foundation aspires to pay attention to the various types of outputs appropriate to the topics and targets, which can be achieved in various forms such as: research, books, studies, periodical and non-periodical bulletins, strategic reports, documents, blogs, statistical data, and specialized encyclopedias, as well as various arts such as films and dramatic episodes. The Foundation can also express its objectives through conferences, seminars, open discussion panels, and exhibitions, and transform all of that. Visual and audio materials to facilitate information for the recipient.

Our institutional charter

Truth comes first.
Human dignity, always.

The institution publishes facts, monitors events, respects specialization, addresses issues objectively, takes into account intellectual diversity and natural difference, and elevates human value.

ObjectivityRespect for expertiseIntellectual diversityHuman dignity

Institutional goals

From research and documentation,
to culture and development.

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The Foundation aims to open internal units of a special nature according to the needs and developments of society, such as: the Strategic Studies Unit, the Social Research Unit, the Public Opinion Poll Unit, the History and Documentation Unit, the Printing and Publishing Unit, and the Arts and Literature Unit - to enrich society with its various segments in various sciences and fields, and to spread a general state of culture, awareness and awareness among the general public and not just the elite, through the following procedures:

Explore our work and goals
  • Adopting a system of concepts and terms with specific meanings that make knowledge more disciplined and far removed from ambiguity and ambiguity in lexical meanings.
  • Establishing a research unit for comparative study in tracking cognitive phenomena, whatever their type - economic, political, or cultural... - and the way they develop in human societies.
  • Conducting surveys, descriptive and analytical studies
  • Establishing a unit to document and chronicle the events that the Arab world went through during the first decades of the twenty-first century
  • Providing the Arabic thesaurus specialized in all fields
  • Sponsoring a project to prepare an Arabic cognitive Wikipedia based on a language of reference nature
  • Preparing a translation project that is consistent with the vision of the Knowledge Foundation as a means of awareness and cultural communication
  • Producing radio, artistic, and dramatic programs and film materials that deepen awareness, enlighten the mind, and build common human values.
  • Providing training services in cooperation with universities and specialized and professional centers
  • تقديم الاستشارات والخبرة لمؤسسات المجتمع، والمبادرة بها فيما تُتقِنه من مهارات علميَّة وعمليَّة وتدريبيَّة
  • إنشاء علاقات تواصليَّة بنَّاءة ومهنية مع الباحثين والمستفيدين، ومع المجتمع وكافة هيئاته.

Our research agenda

Culture, arts and history.
Complementary paths.

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The Foundation has developed a set of research topics that it deems important and necessary in the next stage, in order to achieve the Foundation’s vision, philosophy and goals, and also contribute to spreading cultural awareness among broad sectors of the Arab public or those interested in Arab affairs. These topics will be dealt with successively after their maturity and completion by specialists, and their most prominent axes are:

Culture

It includes awareness of the needs of the individual and society in all intellectual and media issues, human rights, environment and nature, globalization, heritage, contemporary cultural exchange, sources of knowledge, how to receive, and productive participation in the culture industry and the development of societies.

Arts

ويعرض لأهم الأحداث الفنية الجارية ذات التأثير في الوعي من مسلسلات وأفلام ورسوم وآداب، وأدوات الفن ووسائله وأجناسه وأغراضه وشخصياته وجمهوره

History

It addresses the issues of documenting contemporary historical events in all their possible aspects. In addition, it includes what is related to the approaches to writing history, methods of scientific documentation, the relationship of history to other sciences, the most important historical encyclopedias, summaries of historical works, the relationship of history to language, religion, identity, the development of society, historical figures, the problems of writing history, and the relationship of history to the general collective consciousness.

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