Mohsen Badawi (Arabic: ; born November 10, 1956, in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

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) is an

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, political activist, and writer.

Biography

Mohsen Badawi went to the Jésuites school in

and graduated from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

he is the Chairman of Abdurrahman Badawi Center for Creativity since January 2008, the Chairman of Aracom Systems since 1984, co-founder of the Egyptian Soviet Chamber of Commerce (1989), the main founder and first Chairman of the Canada Egypt Business Council "CEBC" (2001–2003), member of the Egyptian Romanian Friendship Association (1988–1991), member of the Arab Scientific Transportation Association (1989-) and a member of The Egyptian International Economic Forum] (2003-). He has been included in the

International Who's Who ''The International Who's Who'' is a Who's Who series of reference books of notable people worldwide that has been published annually since 1935. History The first edition was published in 1935 by Europa Publications. The eighth edition (1943-44 ...

gazette since the 1991/1992 edition.

Personal life

He currently resides in

. He is the great-nephew of

Abdel Rahman Badawi Abdel Rahman Badawi (Arabic: ) (February 17, 1917 – July 25, 2002) was an Egyptian existentialist philosopher, professor of philosophy and poet. He has been called the "foremost master of Arab existentialism." He published more than 150 wor ...

Published work

Mohsen Badawi published his first article in ''

Al Akhbar (Egypt) ''Al-Akhbar'' ( ar, الأخبار; ''The News'' in English) is an Arabic daily newspaper based in Egypt. It is a state-owned semi-official newspaper. History and profile ''Al-Akhbar'' was first published in May 1952 as a part of '' Akhbar el-Yo ...

'' newspaper (1991), published several articles in ''Sout El-Omma'' , ''

Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...

'' , '' El Fagr'' , ''Al-Mal'' , ''Al-Gamaheer'' , Nahdet Masr , El Karamah and ''Al-Masri Al-Youm''

Egyptian Arabic Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian ( ar, العامية المصرية, ), or simply Masri (also Masry) (), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic dialect in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and o ...

newspapers. Also he published his first book in 2009 where he collected the political articles wrote by the Egyptian philosopher Abdurrahman Badawi between 1938 and 1967, the book contains 106 articles covering various aspects and periods in the political history of the region and the world starting by World War II, the Egyptian revolution in 1952, Indian politics and political philosophy, the American spirit and unity and many others

References

External links

Personal websiteAbdurrahman Badawi Center for CreativityThe Canadian Trade Commissioner Service

BBCArabic.comAl Asala FoundationAl JazeeraAl YomAbdel Waley El ShimeryAl Qanat
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