20.2.11

Egyptian political intellectuals



Islamic:

Mohamed Selim El-Awa; islamic law professor and acitivist

Tarek El-Bishri: 
the judge

El-Bishri, 72, is a former vice president of the State Council, a historian and writer whose call for civil disobedience inspired the tactics of the reform movement. El-Bishri's reputation as an independent and fearless judge impeded his promotion to president of the state council while his nationalist views made him the Egyptian Movement for Change's (Kifaya) choice as presidential candidate, a proposal he turned down.

Interview in al-Ahram 

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