 In 2000 and 2001, Hulsman was the adjunct affiliate assistant professor in Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo, and in 2002 he organized a workshop for Egyptian journalists about reporting on human rights.Hulsman decided to devote his attention to developing an Egyptian institute for inter-cultural understanding, and in 2003 he changed the name of the electronic digest RNSAW to Arab-West Report.Following this, together with a group of prominent Egyptians, Hulsman started the CAWU then applied for Egyptian Non-Government Organization (NGO) status, which was granted after a long bureaucratic process in January 2008.