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BADRAWI PARTICIPATED IN INAUGUARATION OF OSTRAKA INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL

December 1, 2016 2016, News 397 Views

At the invitation of artists and organizer of the exhibition, Dr. Hossam Badrawi attends the inauguration of Ostraka International Festival of Arts entitled “Shams Misr “Sun of Egypt”” in Sharm El-Sheikh. He attends it honor as a public figure representing enlightenment, openness of mind and love of art and beauty in society. The festival has more than 120 artists from 27 countries including Germany, Ukraine, Korea, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, France, Tunisia and other countries of the world. The artists met for two weeks in Sharm el-Sheikh. They were drawing, sculpting and singing under the beautiful sun of Egypt at the invitation of the festival management which received no support at all from the state, although such gathering is more influential and profound than any advertising for tourism and culture in Egypt.

Artists gathered around Dr. Badrawi who decided to support the festival. Artist Mohamed Hamida is the one who managed to gather all these people for the nineteenth time, and chose Sharm el-Sheikh to be the starting point of the festival.

Greetings to those who express their love for Egypt practically.

The role of art in returning Egypt as a tourist destination is respected.

The art that transcends political differences and brings people together on our land is a matter of admiration.

This is the beautiful Egypt, wishing the state would be more supportive of this great effort.

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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

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