Sabahi described him as a Nasserite "dream partner" and politicians praised his ability to disagree

Egyptian political figures bid farewell to the nationalist politician Amin Iskandar

Partisan, political and Egyptian journalist figures spread the body of the Arab nationalist politician and thinker Amin Iskandar from the Archangel Michael Toson Church in the Shubra neighborhood last Tuesday in Cairo. Brother of the soul and partner of the dream» to coincide with their political and humanitarian journey.

Also present were the head of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, Diaa Rashwan, the head of the Reform and Development Party, Muhammad Anwar Sadat, the former Minister of Manpower, Kamal Abu Eita, the former Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, Yahya Qalash, the former head of the Constitution Party, Khaled Daoud, the artist Sameh Al-Suraiti, and a group of Iskandar's friends and colleagues.

Amin Iskandar was born in the popular Shubra neighborhood in Cairo, weeks before the Free Officers seized power in Egypt on July 23, 1952. He became involved in the Youth Organization in his youth, and participated in the 1968 demonstrations that took place in protest against the defeat of 1967. Then, with colleagues, he founded the Nasserite Intellectual Club when he joined. At the university in the seventies, he participated in the 1972 demonstrations calling for the liberation of the Palestinian land from Israel, and he also participated in the bread demonstrations in 1977, and he was arrested several times because of his political activity during the period of Sadat’s rule.

Iskandar has published several books that reflect his Arab nationalist tendencies, including “The Secret Organization of Gamal Abdel Nasser,” “Memory and Vision,” “Crossing Defeat,” and “The Arab National Movement in a Hundred Years.”

On the partisan level, Iskandar contributed to the establishment of several Arab and Nasserite nationalist experiences since the seventies, including the Socialist Platform with one of the leaders of the Ahraz officers, Kamal Rifaat, the Nasserite Socialist Party with Fareed Abdel Karim, the Nasserite Party with Diaa al-Din Daoud, and then the “Dignity” Party, which was the agent of Its founders and former president, Iskandar was also elected to the General Secretariat of the Arab National Congress, and the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Popular Movement.

Amin Iskandar's relations were characterized by openness to all enlightened intellectual currents, and he was not known to be fanatical to an idea or current, with the testimony of politicians and journalists who differed with him in opinion, and the result of this openness was reflected in the diverse attendance at his funeral ceremonies.

The head of the Generation Party, Naji Al-Shihabi, and the general coordinator of the National Coalition of Political Parties, said, "The departure of the political activist, Amin Iskandar, is a loss for party life in Egypt, and that he had honorable patriotic positions and a respected political vision."

Jamila Ismail, President of the Constitution Party, said, “I mourn with great sadness the vanguard fighter and political thinker, Professor Amin Iskandar, former head of the Dignity Party, and the owner of a long history of political struggle and public action.

All my condolences to his family and comrades in the Egyptian national movement.

Film director Khaled Youssef said: "Amin Iskandar's soul went to heaven, where there is eternal tranquility and comfort. He was a categorical sword with regard to constants, and he was gentle and forgiving with those who disagreed with him, and he was a river that overflowed with sweetness with his loved ones."

The former leader of the Social Democratic Party, Ahmed Fawzi, said on his Facebook account, “Amin Iskandar was not just a avant-garde nationalist intellectual who respected himself and his movement and those who disagreed with him. Rather, he believed in the necessity of consensus on specific issues and dialogue between the parties to the Egyptian national movement.”

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