Hamdeen Sabahi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hamdeen Sabahi
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 5, 1954(1954-07-05)
Age	70
Birthplace	Baltim
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate
Horoscope	Cancer

Hamdeen Sabahi Biography

Hamdeen Sabahi is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 5, 1954 in Baltim, Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt. Sabahi was the youngest of eleven siblings. He was born in a small Nile Delta village in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Baltim, in 1954 to a father called a fellah (“peasant”)). Sabahi was his youngest brother out of eleven. His father was a beneficiary of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution land ownership reforms. Sabahi grew up among farmers and fishermen, and became a fisherman as an adult.

After the 1977 anti-government protests, Anwar Sadat, then President, met with Student Union representatives from Egypt to have a televised discussion. It was at this debate that Sabahi gained popularity among Egyptians. He expressed his disapproval for Sadat’s economic policies as well as the alleged corruption in his government. He also criticized Sadat’s Infitah, or “Open- Door”, policy. He said it only favors capitalists and those already wealthy. He also criticised Sadat’s plans for peace with Israel, while Palestinians were left without a home or representation. Sabahi said, “This would be a mistake if the terms we must accept in order to return this land include recognizing the Zionist entity.” Sabahi was then banned from working in state- controlled media as a journalist.

Sabahi helped establish the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party (legalized in 1992), headed by Diaa al-Din Dawoud. In 1993 he was among the members of the Egyptian nationalist movement to visit Palestinian resistance leaders in Lebanon. He had been consistently supportive of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance to Israel since the 1970s. In the same year, Sabahi survived an assassination attempt and was later detained for speaking against Arabs’ inaction to the sanctions imposed on Iraq. In his first attempt at running for parliamentary elections in 1995, Mubarak government allegedly sent out thugs to attack his supporters in what was relatively common practice by the ruling government during that period. He did not win in that election, although he won a significant number of votes and made it to the run-off.

Following the 1995 parliamentary elections in Egypt, tensions developed between the party’s old and new guards. The old guard was represented by Dawoud and included former members of the Arab Socialist Union (ASU) who were imprisoned by then-President Anwar Sadat in 1971, while the young guard consisted of student activists who advocated the principles Nasserism throughout Sadat’s rule. Sabahi was part of the latter group and along with Amin Iskander and three other high-ranking cadres from the young guard, were eventually suspended from the party by Dawoud in March 1996 for continually insisting that the old guard share power with the youth for the sake of modernization. They were subsequently banned from the 1996 internal elections, which Sabahi dismissed as neither free nor fair.

Sabahi was a 1975 Cairo University student. He studied mass communication and served the University’s editor-in-chief, The Students. Sabahi, along with a group friends, founded the Nasserist Thought Club which he also headed. Soon after, the club opened branches at other Egyptian universities. Sabahi and his co-workers founded the club to protest Sadat’s policies of undoing President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s legacy. Sabahi was elected president of Cairo University’s student body until 1976, and president of the General Union of Egyptian Students till 1977.

Hamdeen Sabahi Net Worth

Hamdeen Sabahi is one of the richest Journalist from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hamdeen Sabahi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hamdeen Sabahi (Arabic name: Hmdyn H Hamdin Sabahi; IPA: [haem’de:n:n s?” ; born 5/7/1954) is an Egyptian politician and journalist. He is the current leader of the Egyptian Popular Current, and co-leader of National Salvation Front. Sabahi, an opposition activist during the Anwar Sabahi and Hosni Murak eras was imprisoned 17 times for his political dissidence. Sabahi was a direct supporter of the Egyptian revolution and a participant in its 2011 campaign. Sabahi was a candidate in the 2012 Egyptian presidential election. He finished third with 21.5%, edging Ahmed Shafiq by 700,000. votes. He was one of only two candidates in the 2014 presidential election. With less than 4% of votes, he was second. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won the election after attracting 22 millions of the almost 23 million votes cast. Sisi was sworn in as President of Egypt on the 8th June 2014.

Sabahi’s main concern is the restoration of Egypt’s regional power status. Sabahi reiterated his support for Article 2 of the 1971 Constitution, which says Shari’a (Islamic law) is the main source of legislative power. He also affirmed that Egypt is an Arabic-Islamic country that “Muslims as well as Christians build together.”

In September 1981, as a result of his vociferous criticism of the peace treaty, Sabahi became the youngest member of the Nationalist Opposition movement to be detained. He was among some 1,500 other political activists jailed by Sadat’s government in nationwide crackdown. In 1985 he obtained his master’s in journalism. Shortly thereafter, Sabahi and some colleagues founded Saʿid (The Rising), “a center for Arabic journalism”, where many young, Arab journalists were trained in the field. Sabahi was arrested again, this time during the presidency of Hosni Mubarak in the late 1980s, for allegedly being a member of the “Egypt Revolution” group, which was accused of killing Israelis inside Egypt. The group, led by Mahmoud Nour Eddin, included Khalid Abdel Nasser, the son of late President Nasser. He was arrested again in 1991 after a speech to students in Cairo University where he condemned airstrikes by the United States against Iraq, following the Iraqi military’s withdrawal from Kuwait.

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Sabahi became the editor-in-chief of the newly created Al-Karama newspaper, the official paper of the party, until mid 2010. In 2006 Sabahi declared his support for the Lebanese resistance to Israel, and in 2008, he went to the Gaza Strip in an attempt to help lift the siege of the territory. While he was there, Sabahi met with Palestinian officials from the Hamas movement to discuss the conditions in the Strip and express the solidarity of the Egyptian people with the Palestinian cause and Hamas’ stance against Israel. In 2009, Sabahi left his position as secretary-general of al-Karama to focus on his plan to run for the upcoming presidential election. Initially, in 2010, he was able to garner the support of thousands for his campaign-to-be. In early 2010, he co-founded Al-Gamʿiyya al-Wataniyya lil-Taghyir or the “National Association for Change” of which Mohammed ElBaradei and Ayman Nour were also co-founders.

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Hamdeen Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Hamdeen Sabahi celebrates birthday on July 5 of every year.

Sabahi officially announced his intention to run for president. He promised that he will do his best to help Egypt become a democracy, where the law is truly above all and where citizens’ rights are sacrosanct. In a press conference in March 2011, Sabahi promised that he would make the separation of powers more distinct, provide social equity and justice, and rid the Egyptian economy of monopoly and corruption. He promised economic reforms such as setting priorities for the national budget and setting a minimum wage for laborers.