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Dr. Hossam Badrawi interviews writer Dr. Rasha Samir about her latest release, the novel “The Enchanted”

Today, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, Dr. Hossam Badrawy, author, Dr. Hossam Badrawy, discussed in the Biblotic Library. Rasha Samir’s latest publication is the novel “The Enchanted”, where Dr. Badrawi expressed his great admiration for the novel, describing Dr. Rasha Samir as having reached an unprecedented level in writing the novel, as the amount of intertwining in the fabric of the novel is great, and in it the writer combined the Amazigh heritage, the geography of the desert, myths with stories, in addition to information and knowledge. Within a multi-character narrative frame woven by the writer’s imagination.
The sequence of events made her novel an exception among the conventional Egyptian novels.
Dr. Badrawi then reviewed some of the points that stopped him while reading the novel, the information that was added to it, and some of the vocabulary that the writer used, which he described as new to him. Then, Dr. Rasha Samir reviewed her journey towards writing her novel, which took nearly four years to write, and her experience in the city. Siwa and the events she went through, but she did not want to expose the events of the novel for fear that it would extinguish the curiosity of the attendees who had not read the novel yet. The symposium was more than wonderful, followed by a signing ceremony for the novel in a beautiful and enjoyable atmosphere.
It is a joyful welcome to a writer who has risen to literary and artistic maturity that deserves praise in her artistic career.

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