Hamdeen Sabahi
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Hamdeen Sabahi the leader of the Dignity Party (Egypt)
and one of the leades of the Egyptian opposition before the 2011 Egyptian revolution
. He said he will run for president in the Egyptian presidential election, 2011
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Hamdeen Sabahi graduated from faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University.
On July 3, 2011 he appeared on Mehwar TV, and commented about aid from the U.S. and EU:
"This aid does not commit me to anything. If there are no terms, they can double the aid, as far as I'm concerned. The reason is that by no means is this charity. They are paying the price for decades of colonialism. They are wealthy today because their forefathers robbed mine. If not for my forefathers, there could be no modern civilization. This would have been impossible without the civilization led by the Arabs and the Muslims, at a time when Europeans did not even know how to bathe themselves. They did not even have toilets in their homes back then."
Dignity Party (Egypt)
The Dignity Party is a left-wing Nasserist political party founded in Egypt in 1996....
and one of the leades of the Egyptian opposition before the 2011 Egyptian revolution
2011 Egyptian revolution
The 2011 Egyptian revolution took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of November 2011. The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil...
. He said he will run for president in the Egyptian presidential election, 2011
Egyptian presidential election, 2011
A presidential election is expected to be held in Egypt in March or April 2012. It will be the second even remotely competitive presidential election in Egypt's history, following the 2005 election and presidential confirmation referendums in 1999, 1993, and earlier...
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Hamdeen Sabahi graduated from faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University.
On July 3, 2011 he appeared on Mehwar TV, and commented about aid from the U.S. and EU:
"This aid does not commit me to anything. If there are no terms, they can double the aid, as far as I'm concerned. The reason is that by no means is this charity. They are paying the price for decades of colonialism. They are wealthy today because their forefathers robbed mine. If not for my forefathers, there could be no modern civilization. This would have been impossible without the civilization led by the Arabs and the Muslims, at a time when Europeans did not even know how to bathe themselves. They did not even have toilets in their homes back then."