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Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh Abdel Hady {Arabic: عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح عبد الهادي‎) (born 15 October 1951) is an Egyptian physician and politician. He is currently Secretary-General of the Arab Medical Union. Formerly he was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is a declared candidate for the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the September 2011 election.

Early life

Abdel Fotouh was born on the 15th of October, 1951. He graduated from Cairo University’s School of Medicine with honors in 1976, and also received a Bachelors of Law from the same university. He attained a master’s degree in hospital management from the Helwan University's Faculty of Commerce.

During his time at University, Fotouh was the president of the student’s union at the College of Medicine at Qasr Aini in 1973, and then became the president of the student’s union of Cairo University in 1975, as well as the Secretary of the Media Committee for all Egyptian Universities.

In Muslim Brotherhood

Fotouh was a prominent student leader in the 1970s and coordinated with other students, including Essam Al Eryan and Ibrahim El Zafarany to facilitate the entry of many small Islamic organizations into the Muslim Brotherhood. For many years he a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and served on its Guidance Bureau, and has been called "one of the Brotherhood’s most respected members" , He was expelled from the Brotherhood in 2011 for refusing to relinquish his independent presidential campaign.^[1] He is also the secretary general of the Arab Medical Union.

Famous debate with Sadat

When president of the student’s union at Cairo University, Fatouh famously debated Anwar Sadat. Fatouh accused Sadat’s close followers to be a group of hypocrites, citing Sadat’s restriction on Sheikh Mohammad Ghazali’s speeches and the arrests of student demonstrators on campus. Sadat was angered and ordered Fatouh to stop in the middle of the debate, demanding that Fatouh show respect for Sadat, the self-proclaimed father of the Egyptian people. Sadat hailed from the Egyptian countryside where paternalistic culture was strong.

Ideas

As a leader within the Muslim Brotherhood, Fatouh claims that he worked to ensure that the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood conformed with democratic principles. Fatouh declared on the British media outlet BBC that the source of true power and legislation was not in law or constitution, but in the people.

Imprisonment

Fatouh was arrested in 1981, during the famous September arrests that specifically targeted members of Islamic groups in large numbers. He was then tried in a military court for the members of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was imprisoned from 1996-2001, for a span of five years. He had been working as the aide to the secretary general of the Arab Medical Union before his imprisonment, and after his release from prison, he was voted to be the secretary general of the same organization.

Presidential campaign

In 2011, after the January Revolution, Dr. Fatouh announced that he would be running for the Presidency of Egypt. This news was welcomed among some political forces, though it was met with dissent among the Muslim Brotherhood as the organization had previously stated that they would not be putting forth a candidate for the coming presidential election. The general spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood announced that: “any member that wished to run would have to do so as independently, without Muslim Brotherhood affiliation.”

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