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Honoring Dr. Hossam Badrawi at the conclusion of the Cairo International Forum for University Theater

The Cairo International Forum for University Theater, in its third session, bearing the name of the late artist Samir Ghanem, during the closing ceremony held at the British University in El-Shorouk, honored Prof.
The forum was headed by director Amr Kabil, founder of the forum, and 12 theatrical performances participated in the forum in its third session, 10 of which were in the official competition of the forum, from the countries of Egypt, Tunisia, Oman, Morocco and Russia.
The forum’s competitions this year also include the Mahmoud Naseem competition for theatrical writing, the Hazem Azmy competition for theater criticism, in addition to a set of seminars within the intellectual framework of the forum.
At the closing ceremony, the festival honored a group of artists and stars, headed by the late artist Samir Ghanem, the star Jamal Suleiman, members of the jury and the winning teams in the competitions, in the presence of the Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr. Ashraf Sobhi.
The jury of the theatrical performance competition consisted of star Jamal Suleiman from Syria, artist Wafaa Al-Hakim from Egypt, Sami Al-Zahrani from Saudi Arabia, Shadia Zaitoun from Lebanon, and Philippe Gigit from France.
Dr. Badrawi gave a speech in which he expressed his admiration for the forum and its role in supporting young artists from all over the world, especially in Egypt.
Stressing the importance of art in building a normal personality and sound conscience during all stages of the educational process

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