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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The 100: Egypt's Constituent Assembly

Ahram Online has published the names of the 100 members of Egypt's Constituent Assembly, the designatio of whom has continued to provoke controversy. I'll analyze at some point, but for now (spellings as given by Ahram Online, order alphabetical by first name in Arabic:


1.         Abul-Ela Madi, leader of moderate-Islamist Wasat Party
2.         Ahmed Ibrahim El-Halwani
3.         Ahmed Diab, secretary-general of Muslim Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc
4.         Ahmed Omar
5.         Ahmed Maher Ibrahim Tantawi, April 6 Youth Movement founder
6.         Ahmed Mohamed Khalifa, cassation lawyer
7.         Edward Ghalab
8.         Osama Mohamed El-Abd
9.         Osama Yassin, MP for Freedom and Justice Party, head of parliamentary youth committee
10.       Ashraf Thabet Saad El-Din: MP for Salafist Nour Party, deputy president of People’s Assembly
11.       Ahsraf Abdel-Ghafour: Actor, head of Egyptian Actors Syndicate
12.       Ekrami Saad
13.       Amani Abul-Fadl
14.       Omaima Kamel
15.       Bishop John Paul Fatla
16.       Bishop Paul, Coptic Orthodox Church representative
17.       Ayman Ali
18.       Ayman Nour, former presidential candidate, leader of Ghad El-Thawra Party
19.       Bassem El-Sayid Hassenein Metawly
20.       Bahaa El-Din Abul-Shoka, prominent lawyer, leading Wafd Party member
21.       Taymour Fawzy Mostafa
22.       Gaber Gad Nasar
23.       Gamal Gabril
24.       Hossam El-Gherainy, head of Supreme Judicial Council, known for closeness to Brotherhood
25.       Hassan Mahmoud Abdel-Latif
26.       Hussein Ibrahim
27.       Hussein Hamed Hassan
28.       Khaled Mahmoud El-Azhary
29.       Dawood El-Baz
30.       Sameh Ashour, head of Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate
31.       Soad Kamel Rizk
32.       Said Abdel Azim
33.       Samir Marcus, liberal Christian thinker and writer
34.       Shaaban Abdel-Hamid Darwish
35.       Shaaban Ahmed Abdel-Alim
36.       Shahira Halim Dos
37.       Sobhi Saleh, MP and leading Freedom and Justice Party member
38.       Salah Abdel-Maboud Fiyad, MP for Nour Party
39.       Taher Abdel-Mohsen
40.       Talaat Marzouk Abdel-Aziz
41.       Adel Abdel-Hamid Abdullah
42.       Atef El-Banna, Cairo University constitutional law professor
43.       Abdel El-Galil Mostafa, general coordinator for National Association for Change
44.       Abdel-Diyam Mohamed Nossair
45.       Abdel-Rahman El-Bar
46.       Abdel-Rahman Mohamed Shukry
47.       Abd El-Send Yamma
48.       Abdel-Fattah Khatab
49.       Abdullah Said Abul-Ezz
50.       Essam El-Erian, MP, head of parliament's foreign affairs committee and leading Freedom and Justice Party member
51.       Essam Abdel-Rahman Sultan
52.       Atiya Fiyad
53.       Ali Fath El-Bab
54.       Emad Hussein Hassan
55.       Emad El-Din Abdel-Ghafour, leader of Nour Party
56.       Amr Daraag, leading Freedom and Justice Party member
57.       Amr Moussa, former presidential candidate, former minister of foreign affairs, former Arab League secretary-general
58.       Fouad Badrawy, vice president of Wafd Party
59.       Farouk Gowida, poet and writer
60.       Farid Ismail, MP and leading Freedom and Justice Party member
61.       Safwat Naguib, priest
62.       Maged Mamdouh Kamel Shabita
63.       Maher Ali Ahmed El-Bahairy
64.       Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel, MP and leading Wafd Party member
65.       Mohamed Ahmed Sherif
66.       Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Kader
67.       Mohamed Ahmed Atta Omara
68.       Mohamed El-Betagi: MP, parliament speaker and leading Freedom and Justice Party member
69.       Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat: MP, head of parliament's human rights committee and leader of liberal Reform and building Party
70.       Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, prominent Salafist preacher
71.       Mohamed Khairy Abdel-Diyam
72.       Mohamed Saad Gawish
73.       Mohamed Selim El-Awa, former presidential candidate, Islamist thinker, lawyer, and Wasat Party co-founder
74.       Mohamed Abdel-Gawad
75.       Mohamed Abdel-Alim Daud
76.       Mohamed Abdel-Moneim El-Sawy, MP, head of parliament's culture, media and tourism committee and Hadara Party founder
77.       Mohamed Ali Bashr
78.       Mohamed Amara
79.       Mohamed Fouad Gadallah
80.       Mohamed Maged Kholousy, head of Egyptian Engineers Syndicate
81.       Mohamed Magdy El-Din Barkat
82.       Mohamed Mahsoub Abdel-Maguid, leading Wasat Party member and law professor at Menoufiya University
83.       Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel-Salem Abdel-Latif
84.       Mohamed Mohi El-Din Mohamed
85.       Mohamed Nagi Darballa
86.       Mohamed Yousry Ibrahim, Salafist preacher and former Nour Party spokesman
87.       Mahmoud Ghozlan, official Muslim Brotherhood spokesman
88.       Moatez Belallah Abdel-Fattah, political science professor and former prime ministerial adviser
89.       Mamdouh El-Wali, head of Egyptian Journalists Syndicate
90.       Mamdouh Shahin, lieutenant-general, defence minister's aide for legal affairs and SCAF member
91.       Manar El-Shorobagy, political science professor
92.       Manal El-Tiby
93.       Mouncif Naguib Soliman
94.       Nader Bakr, Nour Party spokesman
95.       Nasr Farid Wassel, Al-Azhar sheikh and former grand Mufti of Egypt
96.       Huda Ghonia
97.       Wahid Abdel-Maguid, political science professor
98.       Walid Abdel-Awl
99.       Yasser El-Borhami, Salafist sheikh and Nour Party co-founder
100.    Younis Makhioun, Nour Party MP

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