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Hossam Badrawi writes for “Al-Hurriya”: The time ship on the banks of eternity

On the edge of the desert, where the horizon of sand meets the horizon of sky, stands a ship of glass and light — not to sail on water, but through time.

The Grand Egyptian Museum

The Grand Egyptian Museum is not merely a building — but a time machine created to replay history louder, clearer, and with a heartbeat for future generations.

It is the moment when time pauses, then resumes. Imagine standing before Khufu’s pyramid, and suddenly the museum lights up behind you like a fallen star.

This is not an opening — but a restart of civilization.

As if Egypt says to the world:
“I was here before writing was invented, and I will remain after languages are forgotten.”

At that moment, antiquities are not simply displayed — they narrate time.

Ramesses II does not stand to be seen, but to be questioned:
“O king, do you still rule?”

Tutankhamun does not smile for cameras — he whispers to the child passing beside him:
“I was your age when I ruled the most complete place in the world.”

This is not a museum — but a dialogue between souls.

It is not a warehouse of stones — but a chamber of dialogue between spirits across millennia.

Here, the Pharaoh sits beside the Egyptian engineer who designed the museum, exchanging gazes:

• The first says: “I built a pyramid to live forever,”
• The second replies: “And I built you a home where the world sees your eternity.”

In the shadow stands the Rosetta Stone, silently smiling because its language — decoded by Champollion — now lives again on interactive screens spoken in every visitor’s tongue.

For the first time, Tutankhamun’s treasures are displayed together in one hall, as if the young king returns to inaugurate his new palace.

For the first time, Khufu’s solar boat — asleep 4500 years beneath the sand — floats in a basin of light, as if preparing for a final journey to the stars.

For the first time, visitors see the Narmer Palette not as an artifact, but as the birth certificate of the first state in history.

This museum is not for tourism — but for human memory.

It was not built to attract tourists, but to restore humanity’s lost memory.

In a time when identities are erased, Egypt stands and says:
“If you seek your roots, they are here, beneath your feet, in every stone, every symbol, every breath of the Nile.”

This project was not Egyptian alone.
Japan funded, UNESCO supervised, the world watched — but the spirit was Egyptian.

The architect who designed the façade, the worker who placed the final stone, the scholar deciphering inscriptions — all carry the same blood that flowed in the builders of the pyramids.

The future begins here.

In the museum, the journey does not end at the last hall — it begins.

In restoration labs, scientists revive a crumbling papyrus.
In education halls, a child draws a pyramid in colors not yet invented.
In virtual reality, visitors walk through a temple never built in the past.

We are not visitors — we are witnesses.

Entering the Grand Egyptian Museum, you are not a visitor — but a witness.
A witness to a historical moment in which Egypt rewrites its story in light.
A witness to dialogue between past and future, led by a silent stone and a laughing child.

In the end, the museum is not a building — but a pulse.
The pulse of Egypt, refusing to be confined to history books, insisting on being lived, narrated, sung, painted, written — without end.

Dr. Hossam Badrawi

He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people

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