Hossam Badrawi Official Website
I am from the generation of reading .. We used to spend Friday, after prayers, on the wall of Al-Azbekiya .. There, our mental abilities were open to another world that has as much pleasure and culture as excitement and suspense.. One book for two or three piasters.. I remember that I got the first series of “Iqraa “Read”” for 25 piasters .. I read the books of Alf Laila Wa Laila “one thousand and one nights”, Mazni, Manfaluti, Aqad and Tawfiq Al-Hakim for a few dirhams .. My pleasure with books is still much more than the age pleasures of social media, internet and satellite channels.. Frankly, a book gives you the opportunity to mediate, reject, criticize, search and inquire, but the internet is like a sandwich that you “eat” but you forget its taste.. The most important is that two weeks ago I came across two books. The first one is «Man of the Storm» for the young writer Ahmed Mubarak and the second is «Farouk Hosny and The Secrets of the UNESCO Battle» by Fathia El Dakhakhni, «Almasry Alyoum» website Editing Manager.
I will start with “Man of the Storm” book. It is about Hossam Badrawi, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cairo University and member of the policy secretariat of the dissolved National Party. In fact, I did not like the book title because it suggests that he is the one that made the storm.. In fact, he is the man of reformation .. I kept company with him for long in the National Party. I saw hitting below the belt done by some people against him, his steadfastness on his situations and his courage in presenting his reform vision in the face of tyrants and servants of the majority party…
Because we have been members in Al Ahli sports club for a long time, I followed up his success in Saleh Selim’s second round election. Although Dr. Badrawi was in Saleh Selim’s list, I noticed that his publicity did not depend on the attractive name «Saleh» as much as it depended on his personality and his relationship with members .. His membership in the Board of Ahli was the first «shot» in his reform path. He did not contradict with the legendary Saleh Selim but rather he was a reformer. He was not Taher Abuzaid but rather he was a person with a vision and a purpose.
The other scene came after I joined the National Party where Hossam Badrawi had a surgery. He stayed in the last floor of his hospital. I went to visit him and was surprised to find that most flower bouquets in the lobby are from opposition political figures. Then I realized why this reformist failed in the 2005 elections in the same electoral wards where he succeeded independently peerlessly in 2000 .. There are other positive things about him not mentioned in this documentary book, although the effort done by the young author deserves all respect and appreciation. For example, I asked a senior leader in the National Party about the reason for the failure of Hossam Badrawi in the electoral wards. Especially that it was unfairly rumored that the former President Mubarak wanted to compliment the name of the late politician Prime Minister of Egypt Dr. Mustafa Khalil in his son, Hisham, who succeeded independently from the party. But the great leader answered me in words not for publishing saying that «The policy secretariat is only two and a half years.. It is still in the formation stage, and Badrawi has many opposition views. He may affect the position of the party in the street».. Then the new expression “the old and new guard” appeared and Hossam Badrawi was classified as a friend to Gamal.. In fact, he was a reformer and courageous. Despite his friendship to the son of the President, he was saying his opinion frankly and he did not flatter him [Gamal]..
In brief, Badrawi was a sincere friend to the president’s son in terms of giving advice. He was not greedy for the future high structure. His courage is noticed in various situations, the most important of which is his speech to “Almasry Alyoum” on 15 May 2013 at the peak of the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime, when he said «Encroachment on judiciary is worse than in Mubarak’s reign .. the situation is like a spider web .. and my assessment to President Morsy is negative»..
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Many of the facts mentioned in the book are known to those who saw Badrawy’s speeches with the press and television. But, most importantly, in my opinion, after his meeting in 8 February with the opposition forces and the late Vice President Omar Suleiman, he warned of post-revolution inspection courts where everyone is taken to gallowses, whether accused or guilty. I personally suffered from. Badrawy believes that the concept of “reformist” is different from “revolutionist.” The first believes that change is a characteristic of people, but within the framework of legitimacy that is not governed by chaos or reform from inside. The latter does not mind chaos if it achieves salvation from the regime.. However, the salvation of chaos leads to disasters..
The book reveals that Mubarak was ready, after Badrawi took over the party secretariat after January 25, to sit with the youth to listen to their requests and promised to fulfill them provided they commit to dialogue morals.. But the meeting was not held.. The reason was not mentioned in the book: Mubarak was not the only one who governed Egypt and there were priorities he must take into account of which the most important was the role of the Armed Forces in the future.. This required a chapter in the book to be narrated by Badrawi himself.. Who was the decision maker in Al Ittihadia? Who specifically was responsible for conveying a false image of the street to Mubarak?
The most important statement of Badrawi in 2007 is that if the reform fails within the regime, we will get a military state or a religious fascism. We got both.. But as for why he said this statement at the time, in my opinion, it was after Habib al-Adli became one of Gamal Mubarak’s camp. As a result, there was a strong crack between Ministry of Interior and the Armed Forces, which witnessed what is so-called heir that had a military and political force.
However, the most important thing mentioned in the book is what was stated in (p. 211) by Badrawi where he said “What happened on 11th of February was a violation of legitimacy. There was no constitutional text on the handover of power to the Armed Forces. This led the army in their statement No.(2) to determine their position from the step down letter.. However, unfortunately the political path drawn by the Military Council (p. 242) put Egypt in the grip of the Muslim Brotherhood.. The first step was the interim constitutional declaration and then the parliamentary elections that preceded the presidency elections.. This needs another book that I may present about the results of January.
