World Domination, Inc. [The Bush Conspiracy-Zionists, Christian fundamentalists, Catholic right]

Al Ahram ^ | 11-30-03 | Sherif Hetata

[general_re]

So you want to write for the Islamic media? Nothing could be simpler - just take a set of truthful statements, half-truths, and out-and-out falsehoods, pile it all together, and wrap it in a big red bow labeled "Jews"!

As SJackson just pointed out, this bozo lives in Maine.

Rather anonymously, so far. Perhaps some Maine freepers ought to (peacefully!) express their Constitutionally protected opinions about this sort of thing...

[SJackson]

Then who pays this Islamofacists to stay in his apartment to write this trash.

Presumably the people who buy his (and his wife's) books and attend his lectures. As seems to be typical of Arab intellectuals, they prefer not to live in Arab countries.

Sherif Hetata

Sherif Youssef Hetata is a novelist and medical doctor. He is married to Nawal El Saadawi and has two children. He occupied various posts and functions since he graduated from the medical college with honors in 1946. These included a period of eight years with the International Labour Organization in Asia, then in Africa. During that period he was Head of a Team of Experts on Population and Migration.

He has written on many subjects including travel, politics and health, but since 1968 has devoted himself to novels. He has translated some of his own works as well as some of the works of Nawal El Saadawi into English. He was Assistant Editor of the magazine, Health, in the early 1970s and of the feminist magazine, Noon, in the early nineties.

He has travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States, and has participated in many conferences and carried out lecture tours in various countries. In Egypt he was a member of the Board of the Medical Syndicate and participated in founding the Association for Health Education in 1969, and the Arab Women's Solidarity Association in 1982. He speaks and writes Arabic, English and French fluently. He worked for nine years in the Egyptian government service. First in the Ministry of Health planning and organizing primary health care services in rural areas, then in the planning department of the public sector drug industry, and lastly in the Supreme Council for Population and Family Planning. During the last period he attended several regional conferences on population and migration, spent three months at Chicago University in an exchange program, and participated in negotiations with the World Bank.

Half of his period with the ILO was spent in Asia and the other half in Africa. In Asia he was based in New Delhi and was responsible for developing projects on population and migration with the concerned government authorities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He travelled extensively especially in India where he visited most of the states. He worked closely with high level government officials, parliamentarians, university professors, research institutes, political parties, trade unions and non-governmental organization. During this period he also travelled to Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines. Many of these travels and experiences are reflected in his book, "The Way of Salt and Love." During this period ten projects related to population and migration were developed, and assisted by his office in the ILO. In Africa he was based in Addis Ababa and travelled extensively in Saharan Africa where he visited twelve countries in both the Eastern, Southern and Western parts of the continent. He worked for several years at the head of a task force in the Egyptian Medical Syndicate on policies and plans related to primary health care and health insurance and his professional experience in this area was reflected in his book, "Health and Development." (Dar El Maaref Publishing House, 1968.)

There are many reviews of his works in the Arabic press and some in the English press but these are documented at home in Egypt.

He has attended several international writers' conferences in Helsinki, London, Johannesburg, and Copenhagen. He received the Gold Medal of the Faculty of Medicine in Physiology. He has lectured in many universities including Cambridge, Norwich, Sussex, London, Amsterdam, Harvard, North Carolina State University, Chicago University and others. He has given public lectures in many countries of the world and has taught for two semesters at Duke University, and one semester at the University of Washington in Seattle. The courses were on creativity, resistance literature and the Arab World and Women.

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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer who is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and her books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on successive generations of young women over the last three decades.

As a result of her literary and scientific writings she has had to face numerous difficulties and even dangers in her life. In 1972 she lost her job in the Egyptian government. The magazine, Health, which she had founded and editted for more than three years was closed down. In 1981 President Sadat put her in prison. She was released one month after his assassination.

Today her name figures on the one of the death lists issued by some fanatical terrorist organizations. This list was also publicized in a neighboring Arab country and in cassettes which are widely distributed all over the country.

On June 15, 1991, the government issued a decree which closed down the Arab Women's Solidarity Association over which she presides and hand over its funds to the Association called Women in Islam. Six months before this decree the government closed down the magazine, Noon, published by the Association. She was Editor in Chief of this Magazine.

Nawal El Saadawi has been awarded several national and international literary prizes, and has lectured in many universities and participated in many international and national conferences. Her works have been translated into over 30 languages all over the world, and some of them are taught in a number of university colleges in different countries.

These universities include in Egypt: The American University in Cairo; Cairo University; Ain Sham University in Cairo. In the United States; Duke University; The University of Washington in Seattle; Harvard University; Yale University; New York University; Columbia University; The University of California at Berkeley; The University of Illinois; Georgetown University; The University of Virginia; UCLA; Indiana University and others. She has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge, at the Sorbonne in Paris, at Bern University in Switzerland, and widely throughout the rest of Europe.

Chronology:

· Visiting Professor, Duke University Center for International Studies and Program in Asian and African Languages and Literature, 1993-1994
· Head of Women's Program in the UN-ECWA Beirut, Lebanon, 1978-1980
· Consultant on Women's Programs in the UN, ECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1978-1979
· Author in the Supreme Council for Arts and Social Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, 1974-1978
· Acting Director General and Director General, Health Education Department, Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, 1966-1972
Medical Doctor, University Hospital and Ministry of Health, 1955-1965

Other Professional Activities:

· Founder and President, Arab Women Solidarity Association, 1982-Present, and Founder, Noon Magazine, magazine of the Association, 1989-1991.
· Co-founder, Arab Association for Human Rights, 1983-1987
· Founder and Vice-President, African Association for Women on Research and Development, Dakkar, Senegal, 1977-1987
· President and Organizer, International Conference on the Challenges Facing Arab Women, Cairo, September 1986
· Founder, Health Education Association and Chief Editor, Health Magazine, Cairo, Egypt, 1968-1974
· Founder, Egyptian Women Writer's Association, 1971
Secretary-General of Medical Association, Cairo, Egypt, 1968-1972

Awards:

· Honorary Doctorate, University of York, United Kingdom, 1994
· First Degree Decoration of the Republic of Libya, 1989
· Literary Award of Gubran, 1988
· Arab Association of Australia Award, 1988
· Literary Award by the Franco-Arab Friendship Association, Paris, France, 1982
· Literary Award by the Supreme Council for Arts amd Social Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, 1974

Dr. Saadawi and Dr. Hetata were also members of the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal, that investigated war crimes against Iraq. Text of the investigation could be found at:

Our new email address is info@nawalsaadawi.net

[Catspaw]

Congrats to both of you. This is the first time I've seen them come after right wing Catholics.

We're in honored company :-))

Seriously, though, it IS an interesting addition. Al Qaeda targeted the Pope in 1995, according to the link below, but Islamic mainstream, if there is such a thing, hasn't openly mentioned their emnity towards Catholics recently.

http://www.cathnews.com/news/211/58.php

[SJackson]

Rather anonymously, so far. Perhaps some Maine freepers ought to (peacefully!) express their Constitutionally protected opinions about this sort of thing...

You mean the Zionist, Christian fundamentalist, Catholic right conspiracy reaches all the way to Maine?

[RogueIsland]

How does this fit into the Gemstone Files?

[MissAmericanPie]

Just another muslim, who has no business in this country enjoying a view of the calm Atlantic, whining over the swamp being drained in the Middle East.

The Road Map, was not some ploy, each step of the way these barbarians have been offered the opportunity to accept Israel and live in a civil peaceful manner. Each opportunity they have cast aside. That's on them, not Israel or the Administration.

The object is not to keep Muslim countries backward and poor, just the opposite is true in fact. This guy is whining about the chance for freedom, self determination, and growth offered the average citizen in the Middle East.
Bush is the best thing to ever happen to the smucks. And the worst thing that ever happened to dictators over there.

Christians do think that ALL of Israel belongs to the Jews. We do not wander off after drunken pedophiles, a robber of caravans, who calls God a liar and through his writings, that fly in the face of the documents that he claims his writings are based on, attempts to steal the birth right of the sons of Isaac and falsely give them to a half breed named Ismael who God did not leave without honor. He just doesn't get first place and rightly so.

We are the best friends of Israel and proud to be counted as such. Unlike the Muslim we honor God's will and bless God's people. Every individual is granted the grace and opportunity to be grafted into that tree.

What documents Muslims acknowledge they twist and pervert in their war against God. So get use to it buddy, you all started this fight and we are gonna finish it.

[Lijahsbubbe]

but Islamic mainstream, if there is such a thing, hasn't openly mentioned their emnity towards Catholics recently.

Maybe it would be easier for them to tell us who they do like.

[MarkL]

You know, the funny thing is that the people who are most critical of this government are writing against if from this country... If he had written something this critical of an arab government, he would have "disapeared" by now...

Mark

[hosepipe]

joo.joo...zionist...infidel...joo.joo..mosaad.. Jesus...joo.joo.. zionist.. blah blah blah....

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill

[Salem]

Alas, we have been found out....

      (Panicked look)



Pphhht!! This man is a certifiable, stark-raving lunatic. You can almost hear the Looney-Tunes© theme song playing in the background. I seriously think someone should call the people in white jackets to collect him with a butter-fly net.

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[Grampa Dave]

After I posted my question about who pay him, I probably answered myself.

He is probably a sought after lecturer for hire at many liberal colleges. So the parents of the students at those colleges pay him to write these articles of hate. A couple of all expense paid lectures at $6k to $10K per half hour lecture each month is a nice living.

[freeangel]

Pseudo-intellectuals like him and many democrats seem to think that unless one is for complete destruction of the Jews, then one is an enemey. Hey, what a concept except that his Islamic fundamentalist friends are much shorter and to the point.

[backhoe]

You can't make up stuff this wacky...

My comments--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031046/posts?page=5#5

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031046/posts?page=10#10

[Nachum]

Seems like your typical Arab/Islamic rant to me. After a while, they all seem alike.

Perhaps this is all for the best. Let them shake in their boots over America's military might. Let them be so frightened that they are afraid to attack.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I am seriously considering changing the Ping List tagline as seen below.

You have failed to include the clandestine secret society of the Jewish Ninjas!

[rwfromkansas]

Same here. Yay for the conspiracy. If only it were true, how awesome that would be. :)

[OpusatFR]

I'm pleased that as a very conservative obervant Roman Catholic with Jewish ancestors, I am viewed as a member of the conspiracy.

Where's my chainmail and destrier? Any of you co-conspirators volunteer to be my page? Will train.

[freedumb2003]

This man is a certifiable, stark-raving lunatic.

It is "also" very "difficult" to understand him since every "term" or "phrase" requires "quotes."

Or is this a "Maine thing"?

[WaterDragon]

I really liked this paragraph the best.......

Its recommendations, presented to Netanyahu, were as follows: 1) Make a "clear break" with the policy of negotiating with the Palestinians and attempts to exchange "land for peace". 2) Israel should shape its "strategic" environment by weakening, containing and even "rolling back" Syria. 3) Iraq's future can be made to affect the strategic balance in the Middle East profoundly. 4) The principle of "preemption" should be reestablished. These guidelines for Israeli policy are being put into practice in the US under George W Bush, and by the government of Israel under Ariel Sharon. As regards the principle of "preemptive strikes" it would not be far fetched to say that it is in part Likud inspired, if we remember that the first "preemptive" strike on an Arab country was directed by Israel against the Iraqi nuclear reactor more than 20 years ago.

[Salem]

"Or is this a "Maine thing"?"

Actually, when a writer overuses either quotes, exclamation points, or their text is riddled with various combinations of bold or capitalized italics, it smacks of hype rather than a calm, confident, carefully reasoned approach to their argument.

In this case, I feel the guy was trying to convince himself of his own material, in the face of what is probably a single shred of logical reason left in him. But it looks like his "insanity" is getting the upper hand!!!