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Hossam Badrawi at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.

Dr.. Hossam Badrawi at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
Dr. attended. Hossam Badrawi held an elegant party yesterday, Tuesday 5/17/2022, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the library. The ceremony included a speech by the Director of the Library, Dr. Mustafa Al-Feki, in which he praised its staff and their historical role in making the Library a true beacon of culture and knowledge with its former director, the scientist Dr. Ismail Serageldin.
Dr. Hossam Badrawi was the head of the parliamentary committee that issued the legislation establishing the library 20 years ago, 20 centuries after its burning and destruction, to return Alexandria with its library as a center of civilization.
Dr.. Hossam has been a member of the library’s board of trustees since 2007 and is now a member of the executive committee in charge of the board of trustees, which includes former presidents, international librarians and eminent international personalities, in charge of the library’s director, Dr. Mostafa El-Feki and Mr. Farouk El-Okda, former Governor of the Central Bank, and Mr. Amr Moussa, former Secretary General of the Arab League and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, considering the assignments of the Board of Trustees to support the library’s activities
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina concert was performed by Mr. Ramzy Bassi, the soprano Amira Selim, the soprano Farah Al Dibani, the Priest Maryam Abu Zahra, and the creative library choir led by Shadi Abdel Salam.

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