Nageh ibrahim biography of georgetown
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He wrote his dissertation on 20th-century intellectual trends in Egypt.
After teaching in England for a year, Dr. Ibrahim moved to Lebanon in 1968 as an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut.
He then left his academic post in 1972 to become a top adviser to the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, which were formed in 1971.
Now it releases video of both preparations and operations.
“Their goal is to gain sympathy from the Egyptian public, like what Kataeb al-Qasesam (the military wing of the Palestine Sunni organization Hamas) does after operations against Israel,” Ibrahim tells HSI.
“In this respect, they send several messages: They try to embarrass the army, show their ability to fight and take revenge on the security services.”
Dr Nageh Ibrahim
He says Ansar Jerusalem initially targeted police officers and stations, but turned on the army after its bloody May 2012 crackdown against demonstrators at the defence ministry in Abbasiya, and other violent clashes.
“The group killed 16 soldiers in Sinai in revenge against the army (in October 2012).
Prior to 25 January 2011, it had never released images of its attacks, such as those targeting tourist destinations in the mid-2000s. Three days after the bomb attack on Ibrahim, the militant Salafi Muslim group Ansar Jerusalem (Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis) took blame, calling the bombing the “Invasion of Revenge for the Muslims of Egypt” and warning online that “what is coming is worse and more bitter”.
On December 24 Ansar Bait al-Maqdis carried out a suicide attack targeting the Daqahla security directorate in Mansoura, killing 16 and injuring more than 100.
VACUUM: A security vacuum in Sinai made it possible for several extremist groups to train and prepare for high profile terror attacks in Egypt.
“He was modest, authentic and committed to the people of Palestine.”
Ibrahim Iskandar Ibrahim was born Dec. 16, 1932, and grew up in the village of Zeita in northern Palestine, when the region was under British control. Dr Ibrahim says the attacks for which it has taken blame include firing a rocket-propelled grenade at a Chinese ship in the Suez Canal in September; attacking Copts (the native Christians of Egypt) at the Waraq church near Cairo in October; killing Col Mohammed al-Komi, a senior Egyptian army officer in Sinai, in August; and attacking a key satellite communications station, at Maadi, in October.
Ibrahim Ibrahim; Pioneer in Arab Studies
Ibrahim Ibrahim, 75, a scholar of Middle Eastern history and public policy who was director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, died Nov.
30 of cancer at his home in Washington.
Dr. Ibrahim, who was born in Palestine, divided his career between scholarly pursuits and work as a government official in the United Arab Emirates. Kataeb Al-Forqan generally prefers direct assault, using automatic weapons or rocket-propelled grenades, says Dr Ibrahim.
He says Ansar Jerusalem trained for at least three years in Sinai, learning to use weapons and bombs.
After having briefly been a visiting scholar at Georgetown, he joined the university as a research professor in 1979.
He taught courses on politics and society in the Arab world and was an authority on Egypt. “It exists in the governorate of Cairo and especially in Lower Egypt, (in towns) like Zagazig, Mansoura and Matrouh.
He has also drafted a wide array of contracts for major financial institutions, including mortgage agreements for HSBC Bank in Egypt. He studied at the University of Tubingen in Germany before completing a master’s degree in political science and Islamic studies at Germany’s University of Heidelberg in 1964.
He received a doctorate in Middle Eastern history and political science from Oxford University in 1967.
In 2011, he was quoted as calling the act a mistake: “Sadat had stopped torture and abolished emergency law, but we young people didn’t realise the value of those steps until after his death.”
He tells HSI that he now believes an “ideological solution” must be found for Sinai, but he warned that violence, including almost daily conflicts between security forces and militant Islamists or others, could well last another year.
That Sinai security vacuum, due in part to a reduced Egyptian military presence, existed even before the Arab Spring spilled over into Egypt with protests in early 2011, sparking the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years in power.
However, violence worsened across the country after July’s military coup deposed Mubarak’s successor, Morsi, and nowhere has the fighting turned worse than in Sinai, which is larger in area than Croatia.
“The geographical structure of Sinai, the existence of tunnels and the security vacuum were the reasons why it was possible to establish training camps in Sinai, where they could go in and out of Gaza through the tunnels,” Ibrahim explains.
He says Sinai “has an important and strategic position” close to the Suez Canal and Israel, as well as having Cairo and other populated areas in easy striking distance.
According to Ibrahim, all five elements required for the formation of an armed militant group were present in Sinai after the Egyptian uprising that began on 25 January 2011: 1) availability of weapons; 2) angry, frustrated people, 3) safe bases; 4) isolation, and 5) funding.
The weapons, he says, came to Sinai through tunnels and other conduits.
He conducted an international seminar for the new government’s diplomats with leading experts from the United States, Europe and other parts of the world.
After a two-year stint as a business executive in the United Arab Emirates, Dr. Ibrahim came to Georgetown. He is also a member of a research group for the work “Implementation of foreign arbitration awards in accordance with the New York Convention of 1957, Public-Private Partnership, Rapid Arbitration under the World Trade Organization”.
Nageh holds a degree in law from Cairo University and has completed intensive courses for qualified arbitration experts in national and international arbitration, as well as specialized training in forgeries, imitations, and real estate matters. He retired in 1994.
“Dr. They can organize strong attacks with an economic or political impact that hurts the Egyptian state.”
He says the arrest of key Ansar Jerusalem leader Nabil El-Maghrabi in October was a severe blow to that group.
“There are also other small and limited groups like Al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Unity and Jihad), Magles Shora Al-Mojahden and Jundallah, but they do not have much impact,” he says.
Ansar Jerusalem and Kataeb Al-Forqan differ in both goals and tactics.
Ibrahim says Ansar Jerusalem sticks mainly to bombs, as were used in its claimed attacks on intelligence services headquarters in Rafah, in south Sinai and in the attempted assignation of Interior Minister Ibrahim in Cairo.
He has been a member of the Egyptian Bar since 1995 and is a registered Patent Agent of the Egyptian Commercial Registry. Local people, including prison escapees, joined protests on the Friday of Anger (26 Jan. 2011). The terrain provided isolation and security. “This organization recruited from among the people of Sinai.”
Ansar Jerusalem and Kataeb Al-Forqan (The Criterion Brigades) are the main armed religious groups not only in Sinai, but in all of Egypt, according to Ibrahim.
“Kataeb Al-Forqan is a purely Egyptian organization, but it also adheres to the jihadist Takfiri ideology,” he says.