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Dr. Badrawi participates in the Twenties of the Twentieth Century Conference

Dr. Badrawi participates in the Twenties of the Twentieth Century Conference
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture, Prof. Hossam Badrawi participated today in the conference “The Twenties of the Twentieth Century: Milestones and Luminous Achievements”, today, Sunday, at the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Culture.
In the presence of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, and a large number of intellectual and cultural pioneers in Egyptian society.
The opening began with the speech of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, in which she celebrated this important and distinguished conference, which comes in celebration of the twenties of the twentieth century, in response from the Ministry of Culture represented by the Supreme Council of Culture, to the series of articles written by the great thinker, Professor Ahmed Abdel Moaty Hegazy, in the newspaper The ancient pyramids, in which he touched on the importance of this time period in the history of Egypt, and shed light on many of the events that Egypt went through during this important and unique decade and the achievements that were achieved during it.
The opening session began with the speech of the poet Ahmed Abdel Moaty Hegazy, followed by the speech of Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, then the speech of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture.
Then the second session began under the title “Economic, Political and Social Fields”. Dr. Hossam Badrawi, Dr. Mustafa Al-Feki, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Dr. Adila Ragab, Dr. Ahmed Zayed, Member of the Senate, and Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary General of the Council, moderated the session.
Dr. Badrawi indicated in his speech that the twenties of the last century witnessed the first intellectual debate that still exists today about the relationship between religion and the state.
Stressing the importance of separating religion from the state, and that the modern civil state means the scientific method in managing the state, the peaceful transfer of power, and freedom of opinion and criticism
Dr. was summoned. Hussam, two battles between the nation’s leader Saad Zaghloul and Dr. Taha Hussein on a book on pre-Islamic poetry and another with Sheikh Ali Abdel Razek on the book Islam and the Principles of Governance.
In both cases, politics fused with religious thought and denied the rising Enlightenment movement in the 1920s.
Dr. also touched. Hossam to the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood, funded by British intelligence in Ismailia, a group that swelled and negatively affected political life over time
d said. Hossam says that Egypt has enlighteners, but there is no enlightenment current that defends modernity and protects its religion with reason and thinking, not with obedience and walking in the herd.
At the end of the session, Dr. Badrawi inspected the Book Authority exhibition and the most prominent published books, in addition to many documents related to that important stage in the history of Egypt, such as the founding document of Banque Misr, the Red Crescent Society, the Egyptian Gazette newspaper, and other unique heritage documents. Attached are a set of photos, including