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Dr. Badrawi participates in the Twenties of the Twentieth Century Conference

Dr. Badrawi participates in the Twenties of the Twentieth Century Conference
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture, Prof. Hossam Badrawi participated today in the conference “The Twenties of the Twentieth Century: Milestones and Luminous Achievements”, today, Sunday, at the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Culture.
In the presence of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, and a large number of intellectual and cultural pioneers in Egyptian society.
The opening began with the speech of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, in which she celebrated this important and distinguished conference, which comes in celebration of the twenties of the twentieth century, in response from the Ministry of Culture represented by the Supreme Council of Culture, to the series of articles written by the great thinker, Professor Ahmed Abdel Moaty Hegazy, in the newspaper The ancient pyramids, in which he touched on the importance of this time period in the history of Egypt, and shed light on many of the events that Egypt went through during this important and unique decade and the achievements that were achieved during it.
The opening session began with the speech of the poet Ahmed Abdel Moaty Hegazy, followed by the speech of Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, then the speech of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture.
Then the second session began under the title “Economic, Political and Social Fields”. Dr. Hossam Badrawi, Dr. Mustafa Al-Feki, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Dr. Adila Ragab, Dr. Ahmed Zayed, Member of the Senate, and Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary General of the Council, moderated the session.
Dr. Badrawi indicated in his speech that the twenties of the last century witnessed the first intellectual debate that still exists today about the relationship between religion and the state.
Stressing the importance of separating religion from the state, and that the modern civil state means the scientific method in managing the state, the peaceful transfer of power, and freedom of opinion and criticism
Dr. was summoned. Hussam, two battles between the nation’s leader Saad Zaghloul and Dr. Taha Hussein on a book on pre-Islamic poetry and another with Sheikh Ali Abdel Razek on the book Islam and the Principles of Governance.
In both cases, politics fused with religious thought and denied the rising Enlightenment movement in the 1920s.
Dr. also touched. Hossam to the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood, funded by British intelligence in Ismailia, a group that swelled and negatively affected political life over time
d said. Hossam says that Egypt has enlighteners, but there is no enlightenment current that defends modernity and protects its religion with reason and thinking, not with obedience and walking in the herd.
At the end of the session, Dr. Badrawi inspected the Book Authority exhibition and the most prominent published books, in addition to many documents related to that important stage in the history of Egypt, such as the founding document of Banque Misr, the Red Crescent Society, the Egyptian Gazette newspaper, and other unique heritage documents. Attached are a set of photos, including

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people