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Dr. Badrawi receives a delegation from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation

Today, Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi received a delegation from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation to discuss ways of cooperation with the Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development during the coming period in various fields
The meeting was attended by:
His Excellency Jamal Bin Huwaireb (Cultural Adviser to the Government of Dubai, Executive Director of the Foundation)
and Professor Shamsa Al Balushi (Director of Partnerships at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation)
and Professor Ahmed Shawky (General Coordinator of the Literacy Challenge Project at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation)
The attendees praised the role of the Nile Badrawi Foundation in the field of education and expressed their desire for fruitful cooperation with the Foundation to expand its fields of activity
Dr. Badrawi stressed the importance of cooperation between the two sides to expand the fields of education development in the Arab world, expressing his admiration for the UAE’s experience in spreading knowledge and developing education.

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