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Name: Mohamed Mahdi Akef
Title: Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan)

Position: Con Israel's Right to Exist to the question "What are the solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"
Reasoning:

"I'm open to dialogue with any government, but only through the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. We engage in dialogue with everyone, with institutions, peoples, universities, civil society organisations, think tanks without limit, except Israel which we do not recognise."

"We Take Nobody's Permission,"
Al-Ahram Weekly,
December, 2005
Credibility
Ranking:		 Experts
Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Counsul Generals, heads of government, members of legislative bodies, and Ph.D.'s with significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Involvement:
  • Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan)
  • Court-martialed and charged with being head of the Muslim Brotherhood International Organization, 1996-1999
  • Member of Parliament for the East Cairo electoral constituency, 1987
  • Member of the Steering Bureau (Guidance Bureau) of the Muslim Brotherhood, 1987-
  • Reappointed General Manager of Youth, Ministry of Reconstruction, Egypt, 1974
  • Arrested and imprisioned for smuggling Major General Abdul Munem Abderraoof, member of the Coup d'etat against King Farouq, 1954-1974
  • Faculty Member of Law, Ibrahim University (currently Ain Shams University), 1950-1952
  • Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, 1940
Education: Graduate, Higher Institute of Physical Education, 1950
Secondary Certificate of Education at Cairo- Fuad 1st Secondary School
Primary Certificate of Education at Al Mansoura Primary School
Affiliations/
Honors:
None listed

Contact Info:
Phone: None listed Fax: None listed
E-Mail: Mohamed Mahdi Akef at ikhwanweb.com via Editor
Web Site: www.ikhwanweb.com

Other:
  • After the 2005 Egyptian parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood constitutes the largest opposition bloc in the parliament with 88 seats out of 454

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