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Dr. Hossam Badrawi celebrates the World Arabic Language Day

Yesterday, at the invitation of the Education First Foundation and its advisory board chairman, Dr. Hossam Badrawi, the International Day of the Arabic Language (December 18 of each year) was celebrated under the auspices of the Student’s Weapon Company, the day on which the United Nations recognized Arabic as an official language in its corridors. The celebration came within the activities of the conference “Digitizing the Letter Dad – Towards Mechanisms for Digital Transformation in Teaching the Arabic Language”, with the participation of four hundred Arabic language and social studies teachers from the governorates of Ismailia and Qalyubia and a number of international and private schools. During the Education First Forum for Arabic Studies, Professor Dr. Hossam Badrawi honored figures who contributed to spreading the Arabic language, headed by Professor Dr. Ibrahim Al-Hudhud, former President of Al-Azhar University, the distinguished artist/Samira Abdel Aziz, and the writer Dr. Mohamed Abdel Hafez Nasef, Head of the General Authority for Cultural Palaces. The forum was attended by Dr. Akram Hassan, Assistant Minister for Curriculum Development Affairs, representing the Ministry of Education and Technical Education. Dr. Rima Al-Kurdi, founder of the Jana Reading Platform, also participated in the forum.

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