Sunday , February 23 2025
Home / News / 2018 / Dr. Hossam participated in the round table organized by Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies

Dr. Hossam participated in the round table organized by Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies

Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi participated in the round table organized by the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies on the draft amendment to the law of universities with regard to faculty members, the selection of university leaders, the rules of appointment, full-time, promotion, and the independence of universities.
With the participation of Dr. Essam El-Kurdi, President of Alexandria University, and Dr. Ismail Abdel Ghaffar, President of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, this evening, Tuesday, until next Saturday.
The opening session was moderated by Dr. Gamal Shiha, Chairman of the Education Committee in the House of Representatives, and Dr. Hossam Badrawi, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at Cairo University, which dealt with an overview of the flaws in the universities’ law and the subjects to be amended.
The workshops will be completed tomorrow at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport to discuss the rules for selecting and appointing university leaders, the reality and the hope, and discussing and voting on the relevant proposed articles of law. A discussion of the proposed and relevant articles of the law, the rules of university independence, the existing reality and the nature of the hoped-for change, and the workshops conclude with a final reading of the draft law amendment and its approval as a whole.

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