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Between Wheat and Thought\u2026 Thank You, Dr. Hossam Badrawi<\/strong>
\nBy: Fatima Naoot<\/em><\/p>\n

Between the heads of wheat that put me on trial and the voices of thought that support me, came the voice of Dr. Hossam Badrawi<\/strong>, granting my latest book a deeper dimension. His foreword was not a traditional introduction, but rather an intellectual, humanistic, and reformist plea\u2014written by a great mind and a heart of Sufi essence.<\/p>\n

In his foreword to my book \u201cThe Trial of Wheat: A Dialogue with My Extremist Friend\u201d<\/em>, recently published by Madbouly Bookstore, Dr. Badrawi did not merely analyze the text. He read it with the eye of the heart before the critic\u2019s pen, offering a transparent reading that captured, from the book\u2019s opening lines, my roots in a Sufi-leaning family\u2014one that sees the multiplicity of paths to God as diverse manifestations of a single Divine, not as reasons for division, strife, or bloodshed.<\/p>\n

He did not overlook the flower of my life\u2014my son Omar<\/em>, my little artist on the autism spectrum\u2014to whom I dedicated the book, just as I have dedicated to him my heart and my life. Dr. Badrawi recognized this dedication in his words, celebrating Omar as the honorable people in my life have done\u2014with warm sentiments that lit up my heart and reaffirmed to me that the intellectual battle still finds noble allies who neither fear stigma nor are tempted by silence.<\/p>\n

When I asked Dr. Hossam Badrawi to write a foreword for this new edition, I wasn\u2019t surprised by the depth of his immersion in the text and his ability to capture the emotional and intellectual cues I had carefully woven\u2014as if writing messages on the surface of a river.<\/p>\n

The book, in its first edition, was titled \u201cDialogue with My Extremist Friend\u201d<\/em> and was published at the height of our fierce confrontations with the Muslim Brotherhood and extremist factions. Now, it returns a decade later under the title \u201cThe Trial of Wheat\u201d<\/em>, as if we, in our collective depth, are still spinning in the same vortex\u2014despite the political leadership\u2019s wise attempts at intellectual reform, embodied in President El-Sisi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In his introduction, Dr. Badrawi wrote that his task was not as simple as he had imagined. He found himself before a living text\u2014wounded yet timeless\u2014an unresolved confrontation. The winds of takfir (excommunication) and treachery still blow, as if we\u2019re walking on a sandy path, stumbling each time we try to rise.<\/p>\n

He stated that the issues raised in the book\u2014which had wide impact upon its first release\u2014have not faded, but still assert themselves despite the passage of time. The decision to keep the original text unchanged was deliberate, a reflection of an ongoing reality that still calls for transformation\u2014despite the fruits of reform.<\/p>\n

He also noted the ready accusations we still face from factions that do not read, but instead feed on incitement and takfir, attacking anyone who dares to think or question the familiar.
\nHe asked whether friendship with an extremist is even possible\u2014only to clarify that \u201cthe extremist friend\u201d is not a person, but a symbol of an internal idea or voice rather than an external face.<\/p>\n

He concluded by noting that the book contains over ninety essays, each worthy of reflection\u2014making the foreword itself nearly a parallel book.<\/p>\n

The great thinker paused at the importance of agreeing on terminology before engaging in rational dialogue:
\n\u201cDemocracy, secularism, doctrine, citizenship\u201d<\/em>\u2026 words we fight over without first agreeing on what they mean. He referenced a chapter of my book in which I wrote:
\n\u201cThe fluidity of terms and the confusion of language, concepts, and definitions among some\u2014alongside the politicization of abstract philosophical ideas\u2014are among the primary causes of intellectual conflict in our societies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He cited several of my essays in which I confronted \u201cthe extremist friend\u201d with logic and reason, reminding us that the essence of all religions is beauty, mercy, and justice\u2014not guardianship, killing, or takfir.<\/p>\n

In a poetic gesture, Dr. Badrawi chose to end his eloquent foreword with an excerpt from the book\u2019s closing chapter\u2014the dreamlike one in which I imagined wheat ears putting me on trial, asking about the meaning of homeland, the consequences of persecution, the harsh tribal elders, and imprisonment.
\nMy answers resembled a plea for truth, goodness, and beauty\u2014a vision of a pure world free of hatred, animosity, injustice, and darkness.<\/p>\n

Dr. Badrawi said he sensed in my words \u201ca deep sorrow and a recurring pain,\u201d and wished that I could overcome it.
\nAnd I say to him: Yes, my sorrow has not been extinguished, but it has not extinguished the spark of hope. My pain is undeniable, but it has not led me to despair.
\nLife is worth resisting for. The homeland is worth struggling for. And hope lives on, because aware minds will not remain silent.<\/p>\n

What Dr. Hossam Badrawi offered was not a preface\u2014it was a partnership in the message. A living testimony to the necessity of opening our minds, purifying our hearts, and daring to think.
\nBecause wheat can only grow in free soil, protected by dreamers of tomorrow<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Dr. Hossam Badrawi\u2014not for writing a foreword, but for giving the book a second soul through your intellectual plea and Sufi reading of its spirit.
\nAnd thank you to Madbouly Bookstore for seeing that republishing this work is not a repetition of the past, but a necessity of the present\u2014and a contribution to shaping the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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. 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