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DR. BADRAWI GIVES LECTURE TO MORE THAN 150 OUTSTANDING STUDENTS

In a wonderful lecture, Dr. Hossam Badrawi met more than 150 outstanding students from public language schools, ranging 14 – 16 years, as a part from a training grant provided to the students within the framework of Education First project. Dr. Badrawi spoke with the students for two hours. He gave them interactive lecture entitled ‘Twenty First Century Skills’. The lecture was exciting and interactive and everybody participated in it. Dr. Badrawi spoke about happiness and its importance to man, and how happiness is a positive choice that we should seek to for a man to be happy a good citizen useful for himself and others. Dr. Badrawi asked each student to mention 5 things that can make them happy. The students went up on the stage to talk about what made them happy. The students had some common reasons for being happy, like spending time with their families, praying, listening to music, playing football, drawing and going out with their friends and reading. When our children feel happy, this implies a mentally and emotionally healthy society. This was how Dr. Badrawi expressed what the students said. A girl surprised Dr. Badrawi asking him about the five things that make him happy. How did he answer? Watch the video.  The students talked to Dr. Badrawi freely about Abbas El Akkad and his books, Taha Hussein and effect and Einstein and his famous quotes. They talked with Dr. Badrawi in the field of art, music and science fiction. He was happy of the cultural and scientific level of youth as well as openness of their minds and abilities. After the lecture, he said to the audiences, “We should rest assured on Egypt and its future, because its children and youth are better than what we think of them, more beautiful than how we describe them and more capable than we can imagine.

 

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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