Wahid Abdel Meguid is an Egyptian thinker and political analyst. He was born on 1955 in Shsrkia province (67 years ). He is a previous MP, and also previous official spokesperson for the Constituent Assembly of Egypt.
Life edit
In the 1990s Abdel Meguid edited the Arab Strategic Report for the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.
Abdel Meguid headed the coordinating committee of the FJP-led Democratic Alliance for Egypt at the end of 2011,[1] and became a member of the People's Assembly of Egypt in the 2011-2012 parliamentary elections. He was reportedly on the party list for the FJP for the Qasr al-Nil district of Cairo,[2] though he has also sometimes been characterized as an independent MP.[3]
In March 2012 he became one of the 50 parliamentarians elected to the Constituent Assembly of Egypt.[3] He was a member of the mediation committee which worked to end the political stalemate over the assembly's composition.[4] Initially declaring that the committee had agreed parliamentarians would not sit on the Constituent Assembly, he later reversed this statement.[5] He kept his own place in the Constituent Assembly when it was revamped in June 2012,[6] and since July 2012 he has been the Constituent Assembly's official spokesperson.[7]
Works edit
- (with others) The Gulf Crisis: Dimensions and Possibilities, Middle East Papers (Published by National Centre for Middle East Studies, Cairo), Special Dossier, November 1990
- (ed. with Ola A. Abou Zeid) Islamic movements in a changing world, Cairo: Center for Political Research & Studies; Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1995.
- (ed.) Al-Takrir al-Estratigi al-Arabi [Arab Strategic Report] 1997, Cairo: Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 1998. (Arabic)
- (ed.) Al-Takrir al-Estratigi al-Arabi [Arab Strategic Report] 1998, Cairo: Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 1999. (Arabic)
- L'attitude arabe face à la violence, trans. by Fouad Nohra, 2008.
References edit
- ^ Ahmed el-Khatib Hany ElWaziry, Democratic Alliance to submit 'preliminary paper' on constitution, Egypt Independent, 13 December 2011
- ^ Results of Egypt’s People’s Assembly Election, Guide to Egypt's Transition, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 25 January 2012
- ^ a b Zeinab El-Gundy,Who's who in the Egyptian Constituent Assembly, Ahram Online, 26 March 2012
- ^ Al-Masry Al-Youm, Mediation fails to solve constituent assembly stalemate, Egypt Independent, 2 April 2012
- ^ Al-Masry Al-Youm, MP says FJP, Nour Party to occupy 22 seats on Constituent Assembly, Egypt Independent, 26 April 2012
- ^ Official: The 100 members of Egypt's revamped Constituent Assembly, Ahram Online, 12 June 2012
- ^ Saleh: Constitution ready by end of Ramadan, Egypt Independent, 18 July 2012