Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Chairman of
the Freedom and Justice Party and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s
Guidance Bureau, is also one of the most prominent political leadership figures
of the Brotherhood, the organization that led the struggle against the ousted
repressive regime in its last decade.
Dr. Morsi was also the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc at
the People's Assembly of 2000-2005, and President of the Department of Materials
Science, Faculty of Engineering at Zagazig University .
His full name is Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Issa Ayyat. He was born in August 1951 in
Egypt ’s Sharqiya province. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from
Cairo University in 1975, then a Master of Engineering degree in Metallurgy from
the same university in 1978. He further received a doctorate (PhD) in
engineering from the University of Southern California , 1982.
He worked as a lecturer and a Teacher Assistant at the Faculty of Engineering,
Cairo University, and the University of Southern California, US. He also worked
as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Ridge in California between
1982 and 1985, and as a Professor and Head of Materials Engineering, Faculty of
Engineering at Zagazig University from the year 1985 till 2010. He was elected a
member of the Faculty Staff Club at the University of Zagazig .
He was also selected as a member of the International Conference of Political
Parties and Organizations, and founder-member of the Egyptian Resist the Zionist
Project Committee.
Dr. Morsi is known to be a hard worker at each position he held – from the
various fields of science, in which he excelled, to his career as a determined
political leader, in which he proved his great abilities and skills.
He has research in several major fields of industry in Egypt related to
practical production solutions. He also conducted dozens of studies in "metal
surface treatment", which is one of the scientific precision industries, during
his work at NASA on the development of space shuttle engines in the early
eighties.
Due to his constantly firm stance against the repressive measures and oppressive
practices of the overthrown regime, Dr. Mohamed Morsi was arrested several
times. After the 2005 elections were rigged, Dr. Mohamed Morsi led
demonstrations in support for judges demanding independence, refusing referral
of some judges to the Competence Commission to punish them for their outspoken
views against blatant elections fraud.
Consequently, Dr. Morsi was arrested on the morning of May 18, 2006 with 500
members of the Brotherhood during their protest in front of the North Cairo
Court and Al-Jalaa Court Complex in Central Cairo . He spent seven months behind
bars.
He was arrested, yet again, on the morning of the “Friday of Anger” on January
28, 2011 during the revolution of January 25 along with a large number of
Brotherhood leaders across Egypt . Their arrest was a deliberate attempt by the
despotic regime to prevent them from participating in the ‘Friday of Anger’
protests across Egypt . When several prisons were destroyed during the
revolution, and many prisoners escaped, Dr. Morsi refused to leave his prison
cell. Instead, he contacted satellite TV channels and news agencies demanding
the judicial authorities visit the prison and check the legal position of jailed
Muslim Brotherhood leaders, to clarify if there were indeed any legal reasons
for their arrest, before leaving prison, since no judicial personnel were
available there.
The injustice suffered by Dr. Mohamed Morsi went beyond his person, extending to
his family. His son, Dr. Ahmed, was arrested just after the announcement of his
father's nomination for parliament in 2000. He was also arrested 3 times when
his father was an MP at the People’s Assembly.
After his great endeavors and proven excellence in political work in his
five-year term in parliament, Dr. Morsi was chosen by the Muslim Brotherhood’s
Shura Council as a member of the group’s Guidance Bureau. After the January 25
Revolution, he was elected by the Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council as Chairman
of the Freedom and Justice Party when that was established by the group.
In Egypt ’s Parliament in 2000, Dr. Mohamed Morsi played a prominent and
influential role as leader of the parliamentary bloc. He was one of the most
active members of parliament, responsible for the most famous questioning
sessions in Parliament – for the train crash incident – in which he held the
government responsible for the tragic accident. Internationally, he was chosen
as the best parliamentarian in the years 2000 - 2005 due to his effective
parliamentary performance.
In the 2005 Parliament elections, Dr. Morsi won the highest number of votes,
leaving his nearest rival far behind. But a run-off was announced, after which
his rival won through blatant fraud.
Dr. Morsi played a major role in the political section of the Muslim
Brotherhood. He was supervisor of that section which has seen significant action
during the recent period, starting from the reform initiative launched by the
group in 2004, then the publishing of a political program in 2007, and led the
political operations during the parliamentary elections in 2010
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