Gang of subversive cultural lag

A state of hysterical piffle is increasing by this gang of subversive cultural lag whenever the impact of the June 30^th revolution gets stronger and achievements on the domestic level and on the foreign circles; Arab, African, and international get more evident… as the decisive main role in all that was and will always be for the Egyptian army and the broad masses of the Egyptian people.

Such hysterical state has started since that alliance of feudalism, Capital, corruption, and British occupation in Egypt was hit by the July 23^rd revolution in 1952… that revolution that came as a phase completing other long phases of the struggle of the Egyptian people in their modern and contemporary history; meaning since their revolution against the French Campaign at the end of the eighteenth century and the dawn of the nineteenth century.

It is a gang since it is a composition that cannot have the honor of being described as a division, community, or even a group as such names are given to other respectful compositions… but the gang, in its contemporary definition, best suits the criminal compositions.

Also, it is a hysterical piffle since the parties of the gang, including capitalists, owners of satellite channels, and others who “commit” the profession of writing and some of them have daily columns, are supposed to be normal beings due to their education, culture, and the nature of their work, but what they do reveals they are diagnosed with a composite psychological mental disorder.

Moreover, it is a subversive cultural lag since they make desperate efforts to stop the wheel of progress and smash it and to mess with the national conscience and rip it apart… the more intense the domestic fighting, the more hysterical they become and the more fuel they add to the fire.

They declare all the time that July 23^rd revolution was and will be a heinous subversive action that killed Egypt and the Egyptians… and that the royal regime, its figures, along with the British occupation, that remained until 1954 and tried to come back to power in 1956 but failed, were all good and everything was doing great… and so, they regard all the achievements, policies, orientations, and stances related to that revolution and its figures as guilty… they even refuse to go into a reasoned discussion about it… then suddenly one finds them praising Sadat and considering him a hero and a symbol for their orientations for a clear target; that is driving a wedge in the structure of July revolution and ripping its history apart as part of ripping the national conscience.

They turn their back to the fact that Anwar Sadat was a member of the Free Officers movement… and that he was the one announcing the statement of the revolution in radio… and that he remained a serving soldier to its goals and close to Nasser until his death… and that he was his only deputy; that is why he assumed the office of presidency after him… and that he, until his death in 1981, remained proud of the July revolution and his role in it to the extent that during the parties’ experiment that started in 1976, it happened that Sadat adopted a strict stance against the enemies of July revolution and described Fouad Serag el-Din and his group with what they deserved and did not cease to throw them in jail.

It is a gang that collaborated with muslim brotherhood in embedding subversive cultural lag as both of them were part of a common cultural social economic composition that we call capitalism by mistake… such composition does not deserve such name since respected capitalism has achievements and practices that cannot be culturally lagging or subversive.

I do believe that such gang still wishes and seeks the return of muslim brotherhood as they think the European and American orientation aims at enabling the fundamentalist groups with the religious-based orientations of ruling the region for known time-consuming to explain reasons.

And so, we found one of those servants of such gang, who “commit” writing a daily column in a private newspaper that has no known cultural, ideological, or social orientation, writing and issuing final judgments, just like one diagnosed with hysterical rave, that July 23^rd revolution is a crime… then he travelled to Erdogan’s Turkey to appear in the muslim brotherhood satellite channel “Mekammelien”… and after that he praises Sadat while asking the owner of the satellite channel to join him in these hysterical practices.

In my opinion, the subversive cultural lag-spreading gang will not rest or calm down unless they succeed in having a mischievous shake-up between the Egyptian people and the Egyptian army as the latter is the leader of July 1952 revolution, 1973 victory, and the June 30^th revolution… furthermore, if we put aside the figures of Mohammed Naguib, Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak, and Sisi, the Egyptian army will be the one leading the national struggle… phase after phase and time after time.

I call on all normal people in our country not to take the bait offered on the hands of this gang and to reveal what parties of such gang commit against the people, army, and country… I also ask to deal with our historical course as complete connected phases with each one having its own positive and negative sides, but they still remain connecting and completing each other… Sadat and the victory of October belong to July revolution and not to that subversive cultural lag-spreading gang.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar.

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on October 12, 2017.

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“Newton”… despite many

Dialogue between me and “Newton” has not stopped – despite being intermittent – since I started writing in Almasry alyoum newspaper at the end of October 2012… and perhaps the most heated parts of the dialogue were the ones concerning the July 23^rd revolution, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Nasserism, Nasserists, and also Socialism.

Newton used to always confirm that he believes the most important thing Nasser achieved and that lasted after him was what has to do with the social relations and protecting the poor… in such regard, Newton cites the example that before 1952, as he belongs to a socially powerful family, he could order that a certain peasant leaves the village along with his family and cattle – in case he had any – as soon as possible; meaning “tomorrow morning”… but after the revolution and until now, no one can do such thing to any peasant… away from this, Newton’s opinion of the revolution, its leader, and ideas were and still are severely criticizing.

I, in turn, had the opinion that the revolution, its leader, and ideas were not free of mistakes but it is better that we draw lessons and provide alternatives so that we do not fall in the trap of reproducing the same phenomenon.

In the last week of July 2017, Newton wrote three articles and followed them by a fourth one that, in my opinion, does not only has a special importance, but I also consider it as the most important thing written in the last two decades about an important era of Egypt’s history… of course, I will not rewrite what Newton wrote as the articles are available… all of these articles were about Gamal Abdel-Nasser.

However, I would like to stop for a while at some notices… first, the writer proved that the concepts of objectivity and seeking the common good are two possible things if he wanted to adopt them to prove in the same time that he is away from subjectivity and Ad hominem… as many of those who tackle the mission of evaluating the historic events and public figures sometimes lack the ability to reach the truth for two reasons… first, due to absence of documents and lack of the main sources… second, forcing facts and concealing some aspects in order to serve a certain point of view… and so, if documents were available and sources were provided and the second reason was not there in the first place… then one can find a very good writing like what Newton did about Nasser and his practice of self-criticism and thorough re-evaluation of his regime.

The second notice is Newton’s ability to connect the past to the present through drawing lessons, demonstrating the necessity to benefit from them, and asking why we haven’t benefited from those lessons in the subsequent eras that followed… the writer did not hesitate to give examples, some of them could be very sensitive… which is considered a bravery attributed to the writer.

Third notice is, in the time when “Almasry alyoum” newspaper was publishing what Newton wrote about Nasser and his ability of self-criticism, re-evaluation of policies, and his accuracy in detecting his regime mistakes… it was publishing for others who pick from time to time the occasions related to July revolution and Nasser to “commit a certain kind of writing”… such kind of writing has to do with biology and has nothing to do with history or other social sciences any way.

As those who “commit writing” are closer to be very minute microscopic creatures and very poisonous ones in the same time… in biology, when one dies, his body starts to decompose until it is almost vanished and then come those microscopic creatures that nourish, reproduce, and secrete their poisonous secretions over all that is microscopic of the very remains of the dead body.

However, in the world of history and other social sciences, life and human experiences work in cycles or connected graphical lines… and there is no room for sayings or axioms of any kind that state “a community, a society, or a person are dead… and all what they did or achieved throughout their lives is over by their death”…and that is why we knew continuing serious studies about pre-historic eras and later historic ones when man knew about writing in drawings, symbols, and characters.

One wonders of the audacity – and not bravery – of those who commit such kind of writing and who definitely know that while they deliberately issue judgments of death penalty over historic eras and figures that have different opinions over them, they do, in the same time, issue the same judgments over whole nations that still keep what is positive regarding those eras and figures in their conscience and memory.

Back to Newton, again I tell him, this time in written and published words, that you were lucky… to prove one time after another that you do really belong to the Egyptian Nationalism, liberal ideology that respects the other party, and rules of scientific objectivity… and if someone wanted me to prove what I am saying, I have proofs to provide.

What “luck” is but the unknown that we were told to believe in… or one can say it is unexpected and unseen factors that contribute to the reality and continuity of human phenomena.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Almasry alyoum newspaper on August 2, 2017.

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Thoughts regarding July

I ask the permission of dear readers to write about what may seem thoughts or issues bothering me in the 65 anniversary of the revolution that deeply affected my conscience among millions others… I start by saying that there is a difference between the July 23^rd revolution and Gamal Abdel-Nasser… and between them both and Nasserism… and between the three of them and Nasserists.

In reading and understanding history, one should not mix between phenomena since each one has its own exclusive features in origin and course… however, that does not negate the interference and relations of mutual effect between them one another, the thing that requires high accuracy from the political analyzer or historian while he is using his scientific tools to detangle this from that.

I say this because I think it is now time for objective scientific analysis that puts the record straight and attributes every action to its doer, every mistake to the one who made it, and every crime to the one who committed it… and also accredits the one who made an achievement based on a good idea, proper application, and unbiased follow-up… as the July 23^rd revolution was not a package to be taken as a whole… and Nasser the young man is different to Nasser the fresh graduate officer… to Nasser the lieutenant colonel… to Nasser with the political ideology who worked in a secret revolutionary group… to Nasser the president and leader who enjoyed undeniable popularity that even his fiercest rivals and strongest enemies cannot argue about.

Moreover, the social theory – according to what Sa’ad ed-Din Ibrahim said – whose ideological and systematic sides came to exist and held the name Nasserism came after Nasser… and those who believed in it and played a national role under its slogan became distributed – I will not say divided – among parties, organized entities, and groups… and disagreement between some of them reached to the extent that some of those some allowed themselves to cooperate with muslim brotherhood, make alliances with them in the parliamentary elections, and take photos together with their mouths wide with laughter and faces brightening with satisfaction.

And so, a serious analyzer finds himself facing different phenomena which confirm that generalization is not right and mixing between things is unacceptable.

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It happened that I was close to some of those who had connections with the July revolution and were of the Free Officers Movement… and others who worked as officials under the presidency of leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser and not all of them were of the Free Officers… and to be one of those who believed in and raised the slogan of Nasserism and worked to entrench it in the political arena and establish it as a theoretical structure… I also worked with many others of different generations, categories, and cultures to set up a party adopting the Nasserism ideology.

The first public attempt was the Nasserist Socialist Platform whose program I wrote and was submitted to the “Committee of the Future of Political Work” formed by Sadat in 1976 and headed by Sayed Mari’e. I was one of the three who went to the meeting headed by Mostafa Khalil on behalf of Sayed Mari’e to discuss the program of the Nasserist Platform read before the committee by the late genuine patriotic figure Mr. Kamal ed-Din Mahmoud Refa’at known as Kamal Refa’at. My relation with him strengthened after he had left his work as an ambassador for Egypt in London and disagreed to Sadat.

I was close to the Free Officers; Kamal Refa’at, Amin Howeidi, Salah Sea’da, Helmi as-Saied, Ahmed Shoheib, Ahmed Hamroush, Khaled Mohie ed-Din, Abdel-Mohsen Abo Elnour… and was close to those who worked with president Nasser; gentlemen Ali Sabri, Sha’arawi Gomaa, Amin Howeidi, Mohammed Fayek, Diaa’ Dawoud, Mohammed Fawzi, Sa’ad Zayed, Helmi as-Saied, Hamed Mahmoud, Sami Sharaf…

I believe I have a lot to say as a personal opinion that can be criticized and discussed just like any oral history and any analysis of personality… as no one can confirm he is not inclined or unbiased… or even claim his opinion is true just like sacred scripts.

Regarding the time span from 1971 until our present time; meaning for 46 years, there were years when I missed no day without meeting and having discussions with Nasserists, Marxists, members of Tagammo’a party, Wafd party, al-‘Amal party, and others of Islamic orientations… meaning I have more than a lot to say.

I also met president Sadat… he was one of the Free Officers and worked with president Nasser… but because he made it to the presidency, I could not list his name among the ones mentioned above… that meeting with him was set by Mr. Heikal, may he rest in peace, in September 1973, and attended by Mr. Mamdouh Salem, Dr. Ahmed Kamal Abo el-Magd, and Dr. Ismail Ghanem; then-Ain Shams University president and later minister of education, may he rest in peace.

That meeting attended by a bunch of university student union leaders lasted for five hours and a half… I was the second speaker who talked long until president Sadat said: “enough so that your colleagues can have a chance to talk…” when my colleagues answered… “let him continue”… I continued until the president asked about my name then he looked to Mamdouh Salem and said: “Mamdouh… my son X… if he asked to see me at midnight, you bring him to me”… and it happened already that Mr. Mamdouh Salem brought me and put me in preventive custody for almost a year in 1977.

All those details encouraged me to confirm the necessity to distinguish between July 23^rd revolution, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Nasserism, and also Nasserists… as honestly when I used to deal, on the political or organizational levels, with some of those big names who worked with the legendary leader Nasser, I wondered with myself first then before others: how could the man accomplish what he accomplished and go through all those fights while officials with such composition were working with him?!

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I also was close to another category who worked with President Nasser and who were not members of the Free Officers Movement or worked in the armed forces… but they were civil efficient figures like Dr. Aziz Dedki, Dr. Mostafa Khalil, Dr. Mohammed Helmi Mourad, Mr. Fathi Radwan, Mr. Mohammed Hassanien Heikal, in addition to many others who were close to the president and collaborated with him… most of them were prominent figures of Marxist Left and each one of those has his own narration and vision regarding July 23^rd revolution, Nasser, Nasserism, and Nasserists.

Here, I can say that despite the different visions starting from the Free Officers who contributed to building the group, conducting the revolution, and working as officials in the regime of president Nasser… to officials of academic civil backgrounds… they all agreed on one key thing; belonging to the nation and believing in their message that asks for no reward or thanking… also, clarity of social and political visions was the base and foundation for what was achieved and which took a very long time to demolish by those who wanted to demolish it… and even some of this legacy were unable to be destroyed.

Now dear readers, you ask me… if the matter is that clear and needs no mixing between phenomena… and analysis needs accuracy to put each phenomenon in it proper course and discuss points of interference and mutual effect… then why do those who realize such thing not undertake such mission?

I answer: it is due to negligence and wasting time in replying to the nonsense that does not cease to attack July 23^rd revolution and Nasser… and because of practices committed by some Nasserists that give excuse to such attack.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on July 27, 2017.

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