The best way to know and hone the
skills of youth; men and women, is through fields of volunteering and public
work… you won’t come up with real creative cadres but through this means…
Experiments – like al-Wafd party
cadres, green shirts’ movement of Masr al-Fataah party, blue ones of al-Wafd
party once again and finally that of muslim brotherhood and all similar groups
that followed later – have proved that mobilization discipline and choosing cadres
upon skills of bombastic speeches haven’t yielded a national and political work
with clear forward-pushing cultural, social and economic aspects.
However, there is an exception in
such regard; that is a group of the Youth organization who contributed to
projects of filling swamps, planting trees, fighting pests, desertation and combating
illiteracy… this group that kept active in national work and established a
broad political current that later became inhabited by common diseases epidemic
in the Egyptian political domain… atop of these disease is those incompetent
parasitic characters incapable of having a productive real job and who act like
leaders adopting a loudmouthed speech.
For all this, I felt optimistic when
I heard about the visit of parties’ youth delegation to the presidency to
present their vision about volunteer work starting from combating illiteracy…
however, I’m still skeptic about the idea of Youth Council related to the
conference held in Sharm esh-Shiekh… and I won’t rest assured until I see clear
practical tasks executed in volunteer national work domain.
I wrote long time ago that Egypt is refacing
challenges it had already conquered at its beginning as a nation… these are the
natural challenges; challenge of the river and its water in general… challenge
of the sea from the north… and deserts from west and east; meaning desertation
challenge.
Our ancestors were able to tame the
river and resist the sea through reclaiming vast areas in northern Delta where
soft and salty lands were… in the same time, they were strong reliable guards for
the valley and Delta against attacks… since Egypt was a big oasis in the middle
of a vast desert… Generations after generations were able to control the River
Nile by establishing dams, locks and bridges to achieve fair distribution of
water as that was the standard to measure the strength and efficiency of ruling
regime.
With these natural challenges attacking
viciously, other challenges – not less important in my opinion – strike… these
are the socio-psychological illnesses along with the physical ones that went
rife among the Egyptian sociological composition…
Scientist of social psychology and
other experts have detected these sociological illnesses that were transferred to
the new communities… these which we hoped would be leading spots pushing the
nation forward… rather, they were worn-out ones where such illnesses spread
until these new communities became themselves sources for contemporary crime.
Moreover, there are the dismantling
factors that Egypt’s enemies kept activating and empowering… whether religious,
sectarian or doctrinal dismantle… or dismantling upon interests or groups…etc…
until this great civilized entity; Egypt went back to its separate basic
composition elements… like water transforming into Oxygen and Hydrogen becoming
incapable of providing life to plants, animals or humans.
This youth vision represented by
this delegation has renewed the hope for the Egyptian aptitude of millions of
Egyptian young men and women to set off… especially those aging from 18 to 29
years old and who are estimated to represent about 22 millions of the Egyptian
people.
I hope the first task of those young
men would be to have their own leaders from within them… so that the regency of
those taking politics as a profession would come to an end… those who think
they would keep playing the same role without being exposed or that they may
retire and enjoy the fortunes they made falsely; whether money or others.
The road to an effective political
life will not be through the current party life… without diving into details,
we thought there were parties, led by elite figures, established to represent
the Egyptian liberalism… others were formed to compensate for the failure of
the Egyptian Left… and third founded claiming to be independent from any
political current… etc… however, days proved that the common diseases epidemic
in the Egyptian political movement along with its symptoms; division, fighting,
empty bombastic speeches, alienation from the reality and others, have moved to
these newly-formed entities… and again we found ourselves standing before the
equation stating that zero + zero + zero = zero again!
For all this, I believe the
alternative is that these youth groups should involve in direct field work to
respond to nature challenges; meaning desertation and sea challenges…also, to
respond to the challenges of sociological diseases and facing negative
phenomena… then respond to challenges of building the country nationwide…
cadres qualified for leadership will come out of work fields where natural
selection and survival of the best fit will rule.
And since the matter has to do with
our country, I believe older people, like me, may have the right to be active
in national work fields to do their part… in addition to our role related to
our different specialization fields… since tasks like combating illiteracy,
spreading social awareness and exerting efforts for the sake of a comprehensive
Egyptian cultural renaissance standing against attacks of Wahhabi ideology
along with improper interpretation of religion… all these are tasks anyone can
do regardless of age or physical ability limitations.
I welcome and support Egypt youth initiatives
and endeavors in national work… since if it’s time for work, then all terrorism
and retardation powers won’t be able to set time backward.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article
was published in Al Ahram newspaper on November 17, 2016.
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