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Each time I enter a hotel, an airport, or even stop at a highway checkpoint in our beloved Egypt, I wonder: how much of our time is wasted in procedures that we\u2014and those who implement them\u2014know are merely formalities?<\/p>\n

Superficial inspections.
\nMemorized questions.
\nDevices costing thousands.
\nBarriers that deter no real danger\u2014only delay movement and burden the spirit.<\/p>\n

We enter hotels and malls; bags pass through scanners, some searched perfunctorily. A guard stands with a fixed gaze, repeating instructions he knows are neither firmly enforced nor meaningfully effective.<\/p>\n

We enter airports; sometimes shoes are removed, sometimes not\u2014without a clear standard. Bags are searched at entry, then again at boarding\u2014an additional procedure rarely seen outside Egypt.<\/p>\n

At road checkpoints, an officer glances at passengers, sometimes opens a trunk, then waves us through.<\/p>\n

A passport is stamped by one officer upon departure, only for another soldier a few steps later to reopen it to verify the stamp.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival, you wait for your luggage, then stand in a long customs line\u2014green or red channel alike\u2014where an officer asks, \u201cWhere are you coming from? Do you have anything to declare?\u201d Random searches follow\u2014some inspected, others not.<\/p>\n

After navigating these empty formalities, you ascend to the departure hall because cars are not permitted to enter the arrivals area.<\/p>\n

If you are not skilled at navigating Cairo Airport, you may struggle to exit at all\u2014signage unclear, placement illogical.<\/p>\n

These are not genuine security measures.<\/p>\n

They are administrative rituals\u2014performed like actors in a play whose ending everyone knows.<\/p>\n

We know that real threats do not pass through visible gates. Those with harmful intent do not require obvious weapons in open bags.<\/p>\n

True security is not built on cameras alone\u2014but on competence and awareness.<\/p>\n

The issue is not only inconvenience.<\/p>\n

When rules become hollow formalities, respect for law erodes. A sense spreads that everything can be bypassed.<\/p>\n

As a society, we do not respect what we do not believe in.<\/p>\n

When a procedure loses meaning, it becomes a burden\u2014and eventually, a source of quiet ridicule.<\/p>\n

We are not against organization or inspection.<\/p>\n

We need them.<\/p>\n

But they must be:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Effective, not theatrical
\u2022 Intelligent, not redundantly absurd
\u2022 Fair, not arbitrary<\/p>\n

What is the value of asking in every airport, \u201cDid you pack your bag yourself?\u201d when both the questioner and the questioned know the rehearsed answer?<\/p>\n

Time is our most precious asset.<\/p>\n

To waste it in procedures that neither deter danger nor provide safety is a form of disorder disguised as system.<\/p>\n

What value was there in filling paper arrival forms in a world already defined by biometric identification\u2014fingerprints and facial recognition? (Thankfully, that requirement was recently suspended.)<\/p>\n

Each time I stand before a non-functioning scanner or undergo a pointless procedure, I feel I am participating in an absurdist play\u2014like those written by Samuel Beckett or Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco.<\/p>\n

Characters performing roles without knowing why.
\nRepeated dialogue.
\nScenes that never change.<\/p>\n

Checkpoints known in advance.<\/p>\n

It is theater of meaninglessness.<\/p>\n

But unlike real theater, watched for reflection or enjoyment, we are compelled to live this performance daily\u2014and call it \u201corder.\u201d<\/p>\n

We need a courageous reassessment of this system.<\/p>\n

To redefine \u201cprocedure\u201d not as ritual, but as a genuine instrument of safety, quality, and respect.<\/p>\n

The dignity of the state is not built on the number of barriers\u2014but on performance, purpose, and citizen awareness.<\/p>\n

When I enter Garden City near the U.S. and British embassies, I am struck by the heavy security presence that burdens residents and compounds their daily difficulty year after year.<\/p>\n

In social psychology, raising one\u2019s voice does not strengthen an argument\u2014often it signals its weakness.<\/p>\n

Likewise, exaggerated procedures do not create security.<\/p>\n

They resemble shouting in dialogue\u2014noise without substance.<\/p>\n

These formalities may seem administrative details, but at their core they reflect an ancient conflict between form and substance.<\/p>\n

As in art, a beautiful painting without an idea is empty.<\/p>\n

As in religion, ritual without sincerity is hollow.<\/p>\n

In governance, procedures without purpose are no different.<\/p>\n

The German philosopher Hegel distinguished between appearance and essence.<\/p>\n

Societies progress when form aligns with substance\u2014when procedures reflect authentic purpose, not empty shells.<\/p>\n

When form separates from meaning, life becomes theater\u2014and citizens unwilling actors in roles they do not believe in.<\/p>\n

My late father-in-law, Hassan Abu Basha\u2014a former Minister of Interior and a cultured, highly regarded security expert\u2014once told me:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more police and security vehicles you see heavily present in every street, the more you should know that security is unstable. The more visible the procedures, the weaker the reality behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do we wish to remain captive to hollow rituals?<\/p>\n

Do we accept security as facade rather than substance\u2014order as decoration rather than culture?<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is time to redefine \u201corder\u201d not by the number of obstacles, but by their capacity to achieve a noble human purpose:<\/p>\n

Respecting people.
\nProtecting their time.
\nPreserving their dignity.<\/p>\n

Without turning procedures into mute idols we worship\u2014forgetting why they were created in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hossambadrawi\/","https:\/\/x.com\/HossamBadrawi"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13617,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}