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News of Dr. Hossam Badrawy’s symposium at the Egyptian Automobile Club in Cairo in Al-Wafd newspaper today, Monday, July 1, 2024:
In the presence of a group of leading thinkers, intellectuals and politicians
Dr. Hossam Badrawy reviews the future Egypt as he sees it in his new book
Written by: Saber Ramadan
The great political thinker delivered. Hossam Badrawy gave a lecture entitled “Egypt’s future as he sees it” inside the Egyptian Automobile Club in Cairo, where he was received by Mohamed Askar, Vice Chairman of the Club’s Board of Directors, Engineer Nabil El-Bashbishi, Chairman of the Club’s Cultural Committee, and Dr. Ibrahim Hegazy, member of the club’s board of directors
Badrawy presented his new book, “The Egypt in My Mind.” He said, “I started the book with an article whose title is the name of the book, and it was inspired by a lecture I gave at Ain Shams University in a celebration of Dr. Ahmed Okasha, the pioneer of psychiatry in Egypt, and it was met with great welcome and admiration.” The sustainability of my optimism about Egypt’s future and my belief in its people and the genes of civilization in their conscience, despite what appears otherwise on the surface. In this article, I intended to link the great past with the future and the inevitability of its connection to the development of science and humanity.
The second entry into the book is the text of my speech before the National Dialogue Conference in June 2023 because it is almost comprehensive of my political beliefs and ideas that I have been repeating publicly for more than forty years, and I even added a set of barcodes to it for anyone who wants to follow the speech and the subsequent dialogues that took place around it for more than From eighteen local, Arab and international television interviews
Badrawi added: The book is divided into three chapters: The first is entitled “For History,” and I put in it some of what I wrote throughout history to document my political point of view. I began it with an article and a letter that I wrote to the Minister of the Interior in 1984, when I was thirty-three years old, entitled “A Man in… “Predicament” and he hesitated to put it between the covers of the book because it affects my family, but I came back and decided to publish, believing in documenting the events at the time as I saw them, even if my understanding changed with later knowledge after that, and the reader will understand the situation of Egypt in this time and be amazed at the similarity of the conditions in principle. .
The great thinker said that the political articles or that suggest political matters, all of which are articles, most of which were published in the “Al-Masry Al-Youm” newspaper, sometimes in “Al-Ahram,” and on my page on “Facebook” and the renewed “social media” outlets, which protected what I said from distortions or deductions that were formulated by them. Some people create it to spread and create meanings that differ from the original integrated texts for political purposes
And because I am a positive man, the general characteristic of what I wrote and published in this book is that it contains a formulation of my dreams and the dreams of the young people who are in dialogue with me for our country and initiatives and solutions to various issues raised, and not just a recording of challenges and problems, especially with regard to how to stabilize governance in Egypt, implement democracy, and move towards… Consolidating the foundations of the modern civil state and determining where Egypt’s future battle lies
Badrawi pointed out that the third chapter, entitled “Developing Education is a Political Will,” said: I found the presentation of a collection of articles on overcoming the challenges of implementing educational development policies, which were published in 2010 in “Al-Masry Al-Youm” for two reasons, the first of which is that the foundations of educational development It is agreed upon and known, and the reason for the delay in its implementation is political, not technical or financial. Second: for the reader to learn about the reality thirteen years ago, and compare it with the snapshot of the present, and I am amazed that we are still discussing the same topics, in the same way, as if we are revolving in a vicious circle, and that time does not exist for us. passes.
Badrawi added: I followed that with a group of titles linking education to technology and jobs of the future, and I ended it with an important article about the difference between the means and the goal in education.
The dream of justice and human development, without political will, are theoretical trends. Therefore, the book includes three approaches to justice: justice in general and in particular, social justice, transitional justice, and much about the separation of legislative, judicial, and executive powers, along with freedom of the press, all within the framework of the principles of the Constitution. Which was approved by the people
At the conclusion of the symposium, Dr. said: “Badrawy”: I hope that my book will be a documentation of a historical moment that Egypt is going through, from the point of view of a politician who went through the events from within it and the order of the events that surrounded him and almost drowned him, and as Dr. said. Respected Rifaat Al-Saeed, may God have mercy on him, in what he wrote in Al-Ahram after the 2011 revolution, and I record it between the pages of this book documenting the vision of an Egyptian intellectual, a seasoned politician who was head of the Tagammu Party, which is different from my political philosophy, but we come together in love for Egypt, and how many capable lovers there are in Egypt. And qualified…
The symposium was attended by more than 75 intellectual, cultural and political figures from the club’s members, led by former ministers Dr. Adel Abdel Baqi, Minister of Administrative Development and Cabinet Affairs, and Mohamed Fayek, former Minister of Information, Dr. Gouda Abdel Khaleq, former Minister of Supply, Dr. Mukhtar Khattab, former Minister of Business Sector, Dr. Magdy Hammad, Raouf Rushdi, Bishop Mounir Hanna, Metropolitan of the Anglican Church, Soheir Al-Sokry, the new president of the Cairo Rotary, and Dr. Sameh El-Saharty, international expert in health care and Dr. Munis Al-Shishtawi.
