Wahid Abdel Meguid Explained

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

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

• (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.

Notes and References

1. Ahmed el-Khatib Hany ElWaziry, Democratic Alliance to submit 'preliminary paper' on constitution, Egypt Independent, 13 December 2011
2. http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2012/01/25/results-of-egypt%E2%80%99s-people%E2%80%99s-assembly-elections Results of Egypt’s People’s Assembly Election
3. Zeinab El-Gundy,Who's who in the Egyptian Constituent Assembly, Ahram Online, 26 March 2012
4. Al-Masry Al-Youm, Mediation fails to solve constituent assembly stalemate, Egypt Independent, 2 April 2012
5. Al-Masry Al-Youm, MP says FJP, Nour Party to occupy 22 seats on Constituent Assembly, Egypt Independent, 26 April 2012
6. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/44696.aspx Official: The 100 members of Egypt's revamped Constituent Assembly
7. http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/saleh-constitution-ready-end-ramadan Saleh: Constitution ready by end of Ramadan