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A little over a year ago, I read “The Chimera”, Dr. Hossam Badrawi’s debut in the world of storytelling. And here I am today, deeply drawn to his second collection, “Ana Bent Meen?” (“Whose Daughter Am I?”), which I picked up from the renowned Madbouly Bookstore in Talaat Harb Square. In a quiet corner of “El-Hara” Café, tucked away in a narrow alley near Tahrir Square, I began leafing through Badrawi’s tales, following their threads one after the other. Each story opens a window onto a purely Egyptian setting, as though born from the very womb of reality, then sculpted by the imagination of a creative writer who masterfully blends fact with fiction.

I devoured the first six stories in one sitting, and the book soon became my companion on a journey from the bustling streets of Cairo to the calm of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan, where I finished reading the rest of the collection. There is no slowing down when reading Badrawi’s work; he is a writer who fully commands his creative tools, taking the reader on an enthralling journey through a range of worlds—from medicine, politics, history, and geography, to artificial intelligence and the depths of revolutionary experience.

On the cover, Dr. Badrawi chooses not to label his texts as “short stories,” instead calling them “Tales and Dialogues,” noting in his introduction that they carry the spirit and flavor of storytelling. Yet I see this as a sign of great humility that does not mask his exceptional prowess in the art of the short story. It is clear that he has drawn deeply from the wellspring of the masters of this form, absorbing its principles and techniques. Even when he goes beyond conventional boundaries, he remains rooted in the vast space of the short story, carving new paths within it that bear his unique signature.

One particular story stirs confusion and unease—it may be the product of a physician’s far-reaching imagination, or perhaps it reflects a real-life experience the author has lived or witnessed closely. What is certain, however, is that it presents a plausible scenario in a world where advanced technology intertwines with the most profound human emotions. The story sounds an alarm and raises existential questions about our future as human beings in an era where eggs and sperm may become mere tradable commodities—threatening to strip the human body of its sanctity and humanity.

Between scientific rigor and deep thought, between political acumen and artistic sensitivity, between rational logic and emotional warmth—Hossam Badrawi writes not only with words, but with a rich life experience, a personal history that intersects with his nation’s history, and a sincere sense of the pulse of his country. This book is an open invitation to dialogue and reflection, and to a constant search for meaning and value in a world teeming with challenges and rapid changes.

He does not offer ready-made answers or magical solutions, but skillfully places us face to face with profound questions—ones we live with daily, ponder often, and frequently debate. Yet he always does so in a warm, human language that respects the reader’s mind, stimulates thought, and urges us never to stop questioning.

“Ana Bent Meen?” is not just another short story collection to be shelved in a library. It is a sincere and serious attempt to capture the spirit of contemporary reality, with all its stark contradictions, deferred dreams, deep wounds—and the glimmer of hope that still refuses to die.

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This is another introduction to the intersection of shared worlds from elections to education, until we enter his book (Me and the Memes) published by Dar Al-Mahrousa.
Memes may be misunderstood at first glance because I have not heard of them despite reading a lot?! But surprisingly, I found that the word and term memes is a term invented by the British scientist (Clinton Dickens), a professor of animal behavior at Oxford University, and that he found that the work of ideas is similar to the work of genes, as genes carry genetic information inside them and are transmitted and reproduced, and likewise ideas carry information and knowledge that are transmitted and reproduced but by different means, and the truth is this is indeed true, and even a typical connection from the British scientist and a correct comparison as well, perhaps if I were on the international awards committees I would have given him an award for inventing the term and I would greatly appreciate transferring the term to Arabic and the intellectual community, or as Dr. Hossam says in his introduction that genes do not die and the idea continues to live and does not expire, despite the death of its speaker or discoverer, but it remains alive. From this idea and syndrome came the comparison between biological science and the humanities with ideas or memes that can expand to tunes, music, fashion and others. Dr. Hossam Badrawi wove his own memes with pictures of his personal drawings, as he is also a visual artist, at the beginning of each chapter throughout the book, which I see as combining autobiography, i.e. situations and stories, and the people he was influenced by, who are mostly male thinkers?! Therefore, the chapter came before the first and after multiple introductions to the book from three prominent intellectual figures, Dr. Ahmed Okasha, Dr. Mustafa El-Fiqi, and Dr. Murad Wahba, in order, as stated in the book. The chapter before the first carries frankness, revelation and narration in the autobiography, and it is the largest chapter in the book, which I liked very much for the information and indication it contains of eras, which include eras, personalities, and policies, because man is the son of these interactions of memes, i.e. ideas.

Dr. Hossam was born in 1951 to a father who worked as a skilled engineer, so the family lived with Dr. Hossam’s birth in Mansoura before moving to Zamalek in Cairo while he was in primary school and then preparatory school. During this stage, he reviews the readings during that period, from the book My Life by Gandhi to Bertrand Russell and Nietzsche in philosophy, passing through Taha Hussein, and Ihsan Abdel Quddous and Al-Aqqad, who are the most prominent figures who influenced him, and he devoted an entire chapter to them, along with others. His influence by Abdel Quddous is clear in the title of his articles and his book On the Café of Dreamers of Tomorrow. Abdel Quddous had written on the Café of Politics, from reading to the love and passion for football and practicing it first at school, where Mahmoud Al-Gohary watched him in the school league, and Al-Gohary made efforts to convince his father to play with the Al-Ahly Cubs, which is what happened. He mentions that he often called his father and asked him, “Have we entered Tel Aviv yet?” Therefore, the defeat of 1967 was a feeling of humiliation after a long rally for victory, and he uses the verses and the powerful poem of Nizar Qabbani after the defeat. Nizar sarcastically mourns the conditions of the Arabs, and this poem has spread widely among the new generations and university youth. His father chose for him and his brothers to direct them to enter the Faculty of Medicine specifically because it is one of the few professions that allows the private sector and not a cog in the machine of state ownership. He also says that his emotional makeup also helped in his attachment to the medical profession. Then he jumps to the years of the student movement at Cairo University, but he does not talk in many details about this movement despite its importance. He talks with love and respect about the role of Dr. Hassan Hamdy, the pioneer of the family of Dr. Ali Ibrahim, and how his relationship was with the students and with him specifically. He even promised him that if he joined the college team, he would provide him with a train ticket so that he could attend the college matches and return to Al-Ahly training, which was close to the championship at the time. He promised him that if he won the final in Al-Azhar Medicine, he would have 10 additional points in the oral exam. He said that he did not need them because he had already obtained the final score in the exam and that it was for motivation. He talked about the team’s trips, then talked about his specialization in obstetrics and gynecology, which was not his first desire at the time, then his travel to the United States to obtain a doctorate degree after he had married Munira, the daughter of the former Minister of Interior Hassan Abu Pasha, who would be a second father to him and not just a (father-in-law). He was blessed with a son and a daughter, and how his father-in-law played a role in warning him of the danger of political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood on the work of politicians, as Dr. Hossam’s political tendencies and steps began to take their way to implementation. He mentions here the incident of his rejection of the request of Dr. Mohamed Morsi, the leader of the Brotherhood bloc in Parliament at the time (later the President of the Republic), and the request of the Brotherhood from him, and their number was 17 members of the Education Committee in the House of Representatives, which was headed by Dr. Hossam, so they asked to prepare an interview for them with Gamal Mubarak to support him in becoming President of the Republic and leaving the street to them in exchange for leaving power to Gamal Mubarak?! But he absolutely refuses that, but before Dr. Hossam took over the Education Committee after he succeeded in the elections for the first time after his defeat in the re-election in 1995, he talks in detail about these elections and his absolute refusal to attempt not to enter in 1995 because there was a prior government agreement to make the opposition candidate successful, but he insisted on entering and achieved the surprise with his origins to re-elect the Wafd Party represented by Yassin Serag El-Din and refused to withdraw in the re-election, and the result was in favor of the Wafd Party candidate, and here he clearly hints at what happened against him even for the votes he received?! Then he quickly goes over his experience as a member of the National Council for Humanity and the ten years of party work as a reformer from within the National Party until he resigned from it before President Mubarak stepped down after the great revolution on January 25. The second chapter came about memes. Then the personalities or great people who made the conscience, and the third and fourth chapters about memes of humanity and happiness, and the last chapter was about human evolution, and how genes are carried and transmitted only by women, as they are the origin of life as proven by science. The chapter before the first remains one of the most important and enjoyable chapters of the book and could have been extended to become the entire book to become memes of life and a comprehensive autobiography of a broad life between medicine, sports and politics and their secrets and stories, especially since he was in the kitchen of each of them, whether as a university professor or as a player at Al-Ahly and a member of its board of directors and the Football Association as well, or as a politician who approached and did not burn out from decision-making centers and the presidency in Egypt. I expect that Dr. Hossam will complete his hot and honest biography, because Dr. Hossam Badrawi is characterized by perseverance and acceptance of others, and honesty in narrating facts and events. There is no future without a past for those who dream of tomorrow or are optimistic about tomorrow. The most beautiful days are those we have not yet lived, as the great poet Nazim Hikmet said.

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** I think that the West did not see that the Egyptian society rejected this ruling, and they still think that every veiled woman is a Brotherhood, and every person who goes to the Friday sermon is a Brotherhood, and this is not true.
pluripotency genes
For this reason, you said in a previous statement that the Egyptian genes rejected the Brotherhood’s rule?
** He nods in agreement before saying: Yes, the Egyptian genes are enlightened genes. Among all the Arab countries, Egypt is the only country, in which 16 to 18 million Christians live, and there is diversity in form and dialects, because we are a multi-community Within one framework, and this is what distinguishes Egypt from others, and whoever does not see the Egyptian society’s respect for pluralism, then he is blindfolded.
* But we are also a society that is “religious in nature”, and many believe that this feature is what brought the Brotherhood to power?
** With specific words and a raised tone of voice, he says: The Brotherhood came to power as a result of a political vacuum after January 25, 2011. The youth who carried out the revolution did not have an integrated political vision. And if you look at a broader and more comprehensive view, you will find that everything that happened in the so-called “Arab Spring revolutions” turned into religious rule. used by the West.
*But many believe that if the Egyptians were not religious by nature, the Brotherhood would not have reached power?
** He knocks on the desk with his hand, saying: Egyptians are religious by nature, but they are secular and liberal by nature as well.
* How is that? I said it with a look of astonishment on my face.
** He smiles as he says: Look at our joys in the popular areas, and look at the women in the Egyptian countryside, who share the work with men. Indeed, there are statistics indicating that about 60 to 70 percent of Egyptian families are headed by women, isn’t this a feature of Characteristics of secularism, we are a secular state that gives religion its respect, as well as civil rights, but unfortunately religious currents made us fear the word secular, so they attached the label of blasphemy to everyone who is secular or liberal, although the definition of secularism is referring to the mind in interpreting matters, and the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd He says that religion is based on reason, so there is no conflict between religion and secularism.
Historical attempts
* Is the fall of the Brotherhood, from your point of view, an affirmation of the secularism of the state in the concept that you put forward?
** He gives a deep sigh in preparation for a long answer, which he begins by saying: I will take you on a somewhat long journey, starting after the end of the Ottoman rule, when Egypt became a civil state, and its first constitution was established in 1923, and there was a political vacuum at the time, which was filled by American intelligence by establishing an organization Brotherhood, and in the seventies, there was planning by the American intelligence to spread Wahhabi ideology in Egypt, as the Saudi crown prince said in an interview with the “Washington Post”, and this clearly shows that the arrival of religious rule to power was not arbitrary, but rather that it is an old project, but it was not written It can continue, because of what I will repeat again, which is that Egypt is by its very nature a multi-minded country capable of pluralism
*But it is strange for me that many of those who belong to this organization are engineers and doctors. Do you agree with a study that says that scientific disciplines are easier to submit to extremist ideology?
** He nods before saying: No, of course. The Brotherhood, in short, is a political organization whose goal is power, not religion. Religion, for them, is a means to reach power. In countries with little education, religion, military forces, or intimidation and terrorism become a means to reach power, and religion is the easiest. The ways, because the distorted thought makes obedience to the ruler obligatory, because while you obey him, you are obeying God, because the ruler is his agent on earth.
Brotherhood and Mubarak
Why did the Muslim Brotherhood not obey Mubarak?
He replies in a sarcastic tone: Whoever told you that they were not obedient to Mubarak, but they jumped to power at the moment of his fall, while they were in constant cooperation with the ruling authority.
Was the ruling authority not aware of their danger?
** She was very perceptive.
* And how did you leave them, then, to invest in the moment of Mubarak’s fall, or rather to contribute to the scene of his fall?
** Perhaps the arrogance of the authority is what led to this, as the authority felt that it was more powerful and held in charge of matters, in addition to that it believed that it was protecting them from their evil by agreeing with them, and giving them a “quota” in Parliament.
The dangers of democratization
* Let’s close that page, and look at the future through the national dialogue, and the controversy raised by some of your statements about the political issues of dialogue, including your saying that there are risks to the application of democracy, as it seemed to some as if you think that the Egyptian people are not worthy of democracy?
** He is disturbed by the understanding reached by some of his statement, before saying: Of course I do not mean that, what I mean is that when you deal with the masses within the framework of absolute freedom, with 33 percent poor and 25 percent illiterate, the result will be People who were chosen democratically, but they are not qualified, because then votes can be obtained with money and pressure to change ideas, but does that mean that democracy is for the elite only? This also did not mean it, but what I imagine should happen is that there should be a balance between listening to the opinion of the majority, and at the same time there is a way to control the political movement, and this was the philosophy of establishing the Senate, as its members are supposed to be those who meet conditions that you do not find among members of the House of Representatives, such as a certain level of academic qualifications, So that its members are from the elite, whose laws are not approved until after their approval at the beginning, but what happened is that we made the members of the two houses with almost the same specifications, so the Senate lost the real significance of its establishment.

* So is it a made democracy?
** All countries of the world have worked as a means to listen to people’s opinions, and a means to control the political movement, and this is the tendency towards decentralization, where people are left at the village and city level to choose their representatives, and there is a ruling authority that has a vision, so that if the choices deviate from that vision, it intervenes at the time the appropriate.
Q: If the authority intervenes, then how can it be democratic?
** I will give you an example to bring the matter closer. If you are in the process of creating a vision for the development of education, and you have a majority of parents, you think that it is more appropriate for all students to pass without exams, so do you implement the opinion of the majority? Absolutely not. In some matters, only the opinion of the elite and experts should be considered, and this is what I meant by the fact that the implementation of democracy risks. There are certain matters, in which the opinion must be elitist, not populist.
Q: Can you run for candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections, as long as you seem to have ideas that might be acceptable to voters?
** He nods before saying: I have no intention of running for three reasons, the first of which is that I have no personal desire to do so, and the second is that there is a legal framework for candidacy that requires that there be a community of people who want to run for me, and this does not exist, and the third is that The general atmosphere does not allow for competition between the candidates.

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