The plane fell from altitude due to a deep turbulence. On time span, it lasted for a second or two, but as a feeling, it lasted for a day or two. How do all these events, memories and ideas flash in a second? Passengers screamed, some cried out of fear …
Read More »DEAR NEWTON, DOCUMENTING THE EVENTS IS NOT FOR HISTORY, BUT FOR THE FUTURE
Where does the documentation of an event recorded by history come from? Sometimes the same event is narrated by the people who experience it in different aspects and they may differ sharply in narrating it. Who was responsible for the defeat in 1967, the origin of all suffering experienced by …
Read More »HOSSAM BADRAWI IN AL-MASRY AL-YOUM: Half DICTATORSHIP, HALF DEMOCRACY
Since I like learning all the time, and I analyze the past and the present to see the future, I am sharing you the Philosophy of Half in ruling the country. Every regime has advantages and disadvantages that we see and know. Despite we do not support dictatorship, it has …
Read More »THIS IS MY CHOICE, BY DR. HOSSAM BADRAWI
After the conclusion of the sessions of today’s conference in which I was a member, I was surrounded by a number of youth that included worriers, opposers and supporters of the current government and president’s performance. They asked me about the major national projects and its feasibility. Some raised concerns …
Read More »BADRAWI: EXAMS LEAKAGE AND MASS CHEATING ARE A MAJOR DISASTER
Badrawi: Exams leakage and mass cheating are a major disaster. Secondary school system in its current form must be changed; keeping it the same is catastrophic. Everyone asks about my opinion in the leakage of General Secondary Exams (GSE), which determine the academic future path of our children, based on …
Read More »MY STORY WITH ILLNESS AND EGYPTIAN DOCTORS IN GERMANY
I should share you my pride of and appreciation to the beautiful youth of Egypt in Germany. When pain increased, complications got worse and the heartbeats of my lifetime mate became irregular, randomly screamed, we had to resort to tough solutions that concluded with 3 electric shocks within 10 days. …
Read More »UNIVERSITIES, CIVILIZATION BUILDERS OR EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS?
By Dr. Hossam Badrawi, 22 Feb. 2016 What are the objectives expected from higher education in any nation? What do we seek of it and for it? We may imagine that things are clear in everyone’s mind, but they are not, even in the minds of some specialists. The simplest …
Read More »INDIAN PARLIAMENT VS EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT
I am preoccupied that the parliament of India, a 1.2 billion people country, has 543 members, while the parliament of Egypt, a 90 million people country, has +600 members. With the large number of parliament members in Egypt, most of us do not know the candidates. That is the question …
Read More »AL-TAHRIR – THE ABSENCE OF ELECTED PARLIAMENT IS A POLITICAL IMPASSE
Citizens ask me wherever I go about the upcoming parliamentary elections. The question is usually when will elections take place? How the next parliament will be and what is its impact on the political situation? Since I believe it is important to have balance between the three powers, executive, legislative …
Read More »MANY CRIMES IN EGYPT ARE COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF SOCIAL JUSTICE!
Al-Tahrir Newspaper, June 18, 2015 Caste is a concept that strongly appeared in Marxism literature, which went to deny its existence as a normal human interaction at theorization level and called to eliminate the inequality among people at application level. It considered this stratification calls for a conflict at individual …
Read More »AL-MASRY AL-YOUM – BEAUTY AND EDUCATION
By Dr. Hossam Badrawi on 05/05/2015 Al-Masry Al-Youm Beauty is a distinctive feature of life manifested everywhere. It is a kind of order, harmony and consistency, with innumerable manifestations and appearances. The accuracy, tenderness, consistency, balance, coherence and the sense of happiness that beauty inspires in one’s self which man …
Read More »WISDOM AND BALANCE IN HUMAN RELATIONS
By Dr. Fatima Al Mazrouei and Dr. Hossam Badrawi. Every day we hear stories about some people who change their morals and principles, who had a strong friendship that lasted for some time and then collapsed in front of the first challenge, or marriages that began with love and passion …
Read More »The Arab Spring, Fiction vs. Reality (Monaco Mediterranean Foundation)
The Arab Spring, Fiction vs. Reality (Monaco Mediterranean Foundation) Monaco, March 2015 By Prof. Hossam Badrawi Most people assume that if you can touch an object, taste it, smell it, or hit something with it, it must be real, and their knowledge of its reality is based on the …
Read More »INDIA’S PARLIAMENT AND EGYPT’S PARLIAMENT
I am concerned that India with a population of one billion and 200 million has a parliament of 543 MPs, while Egypt with a population of 90 million has a parliament with more than 600 MPs. Most of us don’t know the candidates and wherever I go people usually ask …
Read More »Part of the story of Egypt in 3years – By Hossam Badrawi
Part of the story of Egypt in 3years By Hossam Badrawi February 2014 When i received an invitation from 3 different anchors of popular talk shows in the last 2 weeks to share my views about what is currently happening in Egypt and the prospects of the future, i found …
Read More »Egypt’s revolution.. People’s democracy.. (2)
Egypt’s revolution.. People’s democracy.. (2) By Dr.Hossam Badrawi 5-7-2013 I do not support the deposition of an elected president by a country’s military, but what is happening in Egypt is not a coup in the traditional sense or by definition of a coup. Millions of Egyptians in unprecedented numbers poured …
Read More »Egypt’s revolution.. people’s democracy
Egypt’s revolution.. people’s democracy By Dr.Hossam Badrawi 1-7-2013 Today Egypt is again on the verge of another revolution, and again with vague leadership of the demonstrators against the MBs and president Morsy. Let me give you a background of the situation that lead to the current situation and then share …
Read More »كم جريمة في مصر ترتكب باسم العدالة الاجتماعية
صحيفة التحرير 18-6-2015 الطبقية مفهوم ظهر بقوة فى الأدبيات الماركسية التى ذهبت إلى إنكار وجودها كتفاعل إنسانى طبيعى على مستوى التنظير، ودعت إلى إلغاء الفوارق بين الناس على مستوى التطبيق، واعتبرت أن هذا التفاوت يستدعى صراعًا على مستوى الفرد وعلى مستوى المجتمع، وقررت أن الصراع الطبقى هو الحاكم والمتحكم فى …
Read More »The Unique Opportunity for Egypt’s Future
The Unique Opportunity for Egypt’s Future By Dr. Hossam Badrawi 2011 1 It was the afternoon of Tuesday the 7th of July 2009, when I completed a letter directed to the president of Egypt about Egypt’s competitiveness as it came out in the sixth report of the Egyptian National Competitive …
Read More »Magna Charta Observatory and Prof. Badrawi , Chair of Education Committee co-sponsored meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, 13/14 June 2008
Magna Charta Observatory and Prof. Badrawi , Chair of Education Committee co-sponsored meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, 13/14 June 2008 Universities: builders of modernity and /or education providers? Prof. Hossam Badrawi, Cairo University MD, MP . Dr Andris Barblan, Magna Charta Observatory Introduction Social responsibility is at the core of the …
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