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The Minister of Education meets with the President of the Takatuf Development Association, Dr. Hossam Badrawi

The Minister of Education meets with the President of the “Takatuf Development” Association to discuss a number of cooperation files between the Ministry and civil society
Dr. Reda Hegazy, Minister of Education and Technical Education, met today at the Ministry’s General Office, with Dr. Hossam Badrawi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Takatof Association for Development, to discuss the report on reviewing textbooks for the various educational stages to ensure that they are free of extremism, bullying, and inequality and that they include a rejection of violence and racism. The meeting was also attended by Professor Mireille Nassim, Executive Director of the Association.
Dr. Reda Hegazy stressed the ministry’s continued efforts to develop curricula and reflect this on educational books and provide school libraries with books that reinforce belief in human rights and equality between men and women and strive to form a different educational environment that does not allow extremism to find its way into our educational institutions.
For his part, Dr. Hossam Badrawi indicated Takatuf Association’s readiness to cooperate with the Ministry and continue developing schools and nurseries, as the Association has so far handed over 28 schools to the Ministry, trained their teachers, and taken care of their children.
Dr. Reda Hegazy, Minister of Education, and Dr. Hossam Badrawy, President of the Takatuf Association, announced the importance of civil society cooperation with the government as an example of sustainable development.

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