Ibrahim Abouleish (* 23. March 1937 in Mashtul) is an Egyptian chemist and development aid.

Abouleish studied technical chemistry in Graz starting from 1956. 1960 he married the Grazerin Gudrun Erdinger, with which he has two children (Helmy *1961, Mona *1963). Abouleish attained a doctorate 1969 in pharmacology and worked afterwards in prominent positions in of an Egypt attendance 1977 oppressed it the problems of the country (education state of emergency, population of over, environmental pollution). It still returned in the same year to its homeland and created the Entwicklungsintiative SEKEM to 70 hectares of desert northeast from Cairo.

SEKEM (old-Egyptian hieroglyphic: "„sunful vitality "“) today market leader is with organic products and vegetable cures. SEKEM forces the country-wide employment of biological-dynamic cultivation methods with a environmentalcompatible in particular with the Baumwollanbau.SEKEM operates schools, work and educating programs, a medical center and an academy for applied art and sciences.

1984 created Abouleish the "“Egyptian society for the promotion of the cultural development "“.

For SEKEM today 2000 humans work.

2003 received Ibrahim Abouleish for the development of a business model for 21. Century, in economic success into the social and cultural development the society is integrated and this by "„the economy of the love "“promotes the alternatives Nobelpreis.

"„Me the biological-dynamic agriculture, those in particular fascinated from the Anthroposophie developed was and with which one in Europe already since beginning 20. Century successfully worked. By it, then I was safe, the agricultural situation in Egypt be crucially improved could. "“

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