Fustat - Thu, 2008-07-03 15:16 By Ibn ad Dunya
Professor Abdel Wahab al Messsiri died at the Palestine Hospital on Wednesday, after losing his battle with Cancer.
Professor al Messiri has been the Coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for change(Kefaya) since 2007, when he replaced George Ishaq.
Professsor al Messiri was attatched to the Ayn Shams University in Cairo and had spent the bulk of his academical career studying zionism, something that started during his college years at Columbia University in New York. He returned to Egypt, and in 1971 , he got a post as a consultant at the al Ahram Centre for political and strategic studies, by no other than Muhammed Hassanein Heykal, upon a recomendation from a young Usama al Baz. He was to experience that it was as easy to fall from the top, as it had been climbing there, when he returned from America once again in 1979, he was treated like pariah, because the political climate had changed in the midst of the official euphoria of the Camp David Process. His expertise was no longer aquired.
Funeral prayers was conducted earlier today at al Rabbah al Adawiyya Mosque at Madinet Nasr. He will be buried in his hometown Damanhour later today.
Condolences will be taken at the Omar Makram mosque,tommorow Saturday.
May God rest his soul , my condolences to the family, may God give them patience and comfort during this sad hour.
Professor Abdel Wahab al Messsiri died at the Palestine Hospital on Wednesday, after losing his battle with Cancer.
Professor al Messiri has been the Coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for change(Kefaya) since 2007, when he replaced George Ishaq.
Professsor al Messiri was attatched to the Ayn Shams University in Cairo and had spent the bulk of his academical career studying zionism, something that started during his college years at Columbia University in New York. He returned to Egypt, and in 1971 , he got a post as a consultant at the al Ahram Centre for political and strategic studies, by no other than Muhammed Hassanein Heykal, upon a recomendation from a young Usama al Baz. He was to experience that it was as easy to fall from the top, as it had been climbing there, when he returned from America once again in 1979, he was treated like pariah, because the political climate had changed in the midst of the official euphoria of the Camp David Process. His expertise was no longer aquired.
Funeral prayers was conducted earlier today at al Rabbah al Adawiyya Mosque at Madinet Nasr. He will be buried in his hometown Damanhour later today.
Condolences will be taken at the Omar Makram mosque,tommorow Saturday.
May God rest his soul , my condolences to the family, may God give them patience and comfort during this sad hour.
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