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Dr. Badrawi participates in the celebration of the centenary of the 1919 revolution.

Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi delivered a speech during his participation today in the celebration of the centenary of the 1919 Revolution, which is organized by the Tahrir Cultural Lounge project of the German Goethe Institute.
Where he attended the presentation of the volume “The Mother Revolution” by journalist Sherif Aref, which is the first photographic documentation of the 1919 revolution that deals with the features of the political, social, cultural and artistic revolution through a rare collection of photographs that have not been shown before. He also participated in the celebration of the publication of the volume “The Revolution”. The Mother” through a signing ceremony by its author, Sherif Aref.
Dr. Badrawi also watched the documentary film about the 1919 revolution, “The Mother Revolution”, which deals with and discusses the most important events and features of the 1919 revolution and raises questions about the traditional historical reading of it.
Dr. Badrawi participated in a symposium discussing “film and volume” moderated by writer Amani Al-Qassas, and a number of politicians, thought leaders and media, including Ambassador Abdel Raouf El-Reedy, Minister Doria Sharaf El-Din, writer Mohamed Amin and writer Suzan El-Harfi will participate.
The editorial board of directors has chosen Dr. Hussam Lounge as honorary president of the initiative to revive the House of the Nation, the house of Saad Zagloul and restore its splendor as it was the seat of the mother revolution, in the Middle East.
Dr. Badrawi read to the attendees part of his article Who Writes History, and his dialogue with the youth of tomorrow’s dreamers, pointing out that this record compiled by the writer Sherif Aref records the events of Egypt’s history with impartiality and that it is a book that must be present in every school and university so that the youth of Egypt can be proud of the history of modernity and enlightenment demonstrated by the revolution of 19
In conclusion, Dr. Badrawi took a tour of the Caricatures Exhibition, which is the first exhibition of its kind that deals with – by research and comparison – the political caricature issued in the era of the events of the revolution and the decade following it, which witnessed the birth of a new unprecedented journalistic art in the Arab world. Egypt, the pioneer in art and journalism, is documented in magazines and cartoons that express a caricature of a time in which we should be proud.