Hamdin Sabahi

Hamdin Sabahi ( Arabic حمدين صباحي, DMG Ḥamdīn Ṣabāḥī ; * July 5, 1954 in Kafr el-Sheikh , Egypt ) is an Egyptian journalist, poet and chairman of the Party of Dignity .

Before the revolution in Egypt in 2011, Sabahi was one of the leaders of the Egyptian opposition and represents views of Nasserism, but distances himself from the authoritarian politics of Gamal Abdel Nasser and describes himself as a “democratic alternative”. As an independent candidate for his Dignity Party, he finished third in the 2012 presidential election with 4,820,273 votes and 20.72% of the vote.

Sabahi graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University .

In 2014 he applied for the presidency of Egypt against the favored Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi , but was the only opposing candidate and lost. During the election campaign, he campaigned for the peace treaty with Israel to be terminated ("Our enmity with the Zionist enemy goes to our very existence. It's either us or them. No peace is possible. That's what we believe.").

Web links

Commons : Hamdeen Sabahi - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Egypt's presidential candidate Hamdin Sabahi: icon of the revolutionary youth
"The spirit of the revolution is trampled underfoot" - Interview with Sabahi on the constitutional referendum in Egypt 2012 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on December 15, 2012 (questions: Markus Bickel)

Individual evidence

^ Elections in Egypt: Interview with the candidate Hamdin Sabahi. In: Spiegel Online . June 12, 2012, Retrieved June 11, 2012 .
↑ Facebook campaigns support potential Egypt presidents. (No longer available online.) In: Al Arabiya . February 17, 2011, archived from the original on March 21, 2012 ; Retrieved June 27, 2011 .
↑ Al-Sisi: From Putschist to Egyptian President? at dw.de, March 27, 2014 (accessed on March 28, 2014).
↑ In TV debate, spokesmen for Egypt's two presidential candidates outdo each other in hostility to Israel. April 23, 2014, accessed June 7, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sabahi, Hamdin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sabahy, Hamdine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian political activist and leader of the Party of Dignity
DATE OF BIRTH	5th July 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kafr el-Sheikh , Egypt

[1] Elections in Egypt: Interview with the candidate Hamdin Sabahi. In: Spiegel Online . June 12, 2012, Retrieved June 11, 2012 .

[2] Facebook campaigns support potential Egypt presidents. (No longer available online.) In: Al Arabiya . February 17, 2011, archived from the original on March 21, 2012 ; Retrieved June 27, 2011 .

[3] Al-Sisi: From Putschist to Egyptian President? at dw.de, March 27, 2014 (accessed on March 28, 2014).

[4] In TV debate, spokesmen for Egypt's two presidential candidates outdo each other in hostility to Israel. April 23, 2014, accessed June 7, 2015 .