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Dr. Badrawi participates in the celebration of the centenary of the 1919 revolution.

Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi delivered a speech during his participation today in the celebration of the centenary of the 1919 Revolution, which is organized by the Tahrir Cultural Lounge project of the German Goethe Institute.
Where he attended the presentation of the volume “The Mother Revolution” by journalist Sherif Aref, which is the first photographic documentation of the 1919 revolution that deals with the features of the political, social, cultural and artistic revolution through a rare collection of photographs that have not been shown before. He also participated in the celebration of the publication of the volume “The Revolution”. The Mother” through a signing ceremony by its author, Sherif Aref.
Dr. Badrawi also watched the documentary film about the 1919 revolution, “The Mother Revolution”, which deals with and discusses the most important events and features of the 1919 revolution and raises questions about the traditional historical reading of it.
Dr. Badrawi participated in a symposium discussing “film and volume” moderated by writer Amani Al-Qassas, and a number of politicians, thought leaders and media, including Ambassador Abdel Raouf El-Reedy, Minister Doria Sharaf El-Din, writer Mohamed Amin and writer Suzan El-Harfi will participate.
The editorial board of directors has chosen Dr. Hussam Lounge as honorary president of the initiative to revive the House of the Nation, the house of Saad Zagloul and restore its splendor as it was the seat of the mother revolution, in the Middle East.
Dr. Badrawi read to the attendees part of his article Who Writes History, and his dialogue with the youth of tomorrow’s dreamers, pointing out that this record compiled by the writer Sherif Aref records the events of Egypt’s history with impartiality and that it is a book that must be present in every school and university so that the youth of Egypt can be proud of the history of modernity and enlightenment demonstrated by the revolution of 19
In conclusion, Dr. Badrawi took a tour of the Caricatures Exhibition, which is the first exhibition of its kind that deals with – by research and comparison – the political caricature issued in the era of the events of the revolution and the decade following it, which witnessed the birth of a new unprecedented journalistic art in the Arab world. Egypt, the pioneer in art and journalism, is documented in magazines and cartoons that express a caricature of a time in which we should be proud.

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