| The story of Mamdouh Hamza | By: Alaa Al Aswany 
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Dr. Mamdouh Hamza, one of the largest engineering professors in Egypt, supervised the implementation of dozens of major projects in Egypt and other world countries including the United States, Britain, Japan and narrow the field to give international awards high-many obtained by Mamdouh Hamza, which makes his achievements pride real to the Egyptians and all Arabs . that, in addition to his genius professional, enjoy a deep sense of public duty, it is believed that the knowledge resulting responsibility towards humanity and has said repeatedly that he has learned at the University of Cairo, at the expense of poor Egyptians it is his duty to devote his knowledge to help them as much as possible. When there was the recent floods that hit the province of Aswan, and displaced thousands of poor citizens .. I feel Dr. Hamza need to do something to the victims of the floods appeared on television on Orbit TV with Mr. Amr Adib and showed willingness, a volunteer, to create alternative housing for the poor who were displaced by floods and quickly poured donations program until it reached 28 million pounds had been deposited in the calculation of the Association of Consolation charity to be spent on a project to build houses for victims of the floods. enthused Dr Hamza and leave the work of his own office in Cairo and traveled to Aswan to oversee free to build housing for the poor and received by the Governor of Aswan, Major General Mustafa al-Sayyid, as expected , was well received grave and thanked him warmly for his contribution family friend, time for Egypt's poor, and then ordered immediately to allocate land to implement the project, then returned and replaced by another plot of land with a rocky landscape is difficult to build but Dr. Hamza (Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering) before challenge and was able to address the the difficult terrain, and overcomes a turbulent and built 29 units in three weeks, a record time and was able to experience large to reduce the cost of the residential unit until it reached to the amount of an unprecedented 35 pounds and was the hope of a senior engineer to be able to disseminate illegal in all governorates of Egypt, in order to accommodate millions of Egyptians who live in slums in inhuman conditions without access to electricity and sewerage.Work has continued based on the full swing, and everything was promising the project's success Mamdouh Hamza for housing the poor, but the wind suddenly changed and instead the words of appreciation and praise, turned Aswan to Mamdouh Hamza completely refused to provide the project with water and refused to give building permits and refused to pay dues of construction workers which was agreed upon but It has frozen the funds of people's contributions, and threatened the Association of Consolation Charity severe punishments if spent pounds, and one to Dr. Mamdouh Hamza, contributions paid by the Egyptians mainly because they trust in the sincerity and efficiency. Moreover, it has to inform the police, who arrested the engineers and workers during their work in the project and occupied the site and prevented the work which has refused to edit the records to prove a case for Mamdouh Hamza .. Thus, the Dr. Hamza to the first enemy of the Governor of Aswan, who summoned some of the engineers (all of whom were students of Dr. Hamza in Faculty of Engineering) to write reports that confirm that the housing erected by faulty engineering, was rejected by most engineers violation of their conscience and wrote reports praising the engineering accomplishment of their professor, Dr. Hamza and the result was that the governor hid these reports because they were in the non-amateur .. In the end, Aswan Governor referred the subject to prosecution and this strange behavior, Dr. Mamdouh Hamza is not a murderer and a thief so check with prosecutors, but is the world of senior Egyptian wanted to serve his country with his money and donated time and effort. Unfortunately we can not be optimistic about the investigations because the prosecution the Attorney General is not independent from political power in Egypt. That the question here is: Why has turned the system on Mamdouh Hamza and fought fiercely after welcoming in the first place .. Reasons are summarized as follows: First: The housing units that carried out by Mamdouh Hamza, the price is very low, cost per thousand pounds of which 35 houses while the poor carried out by maintenance cost per unit is 80 thousand pounds .. The difference between the two figures go into the pockets of big contractors who have extensive relations influential in the various organs of the State. Consider the success of these contractors Mamdouh Hamza, in his Building a new model of housing for the poor is subject to the spread of which is a serious threat to their interests because it will lead to the loss of their profits in the millions so they do everything they can to eliminate the project, Dr. Hamza and destroyed.Second: The projects implemented by the province will be opened by Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, wife of President of the Republic does not fit all, in the minds of officials, to open Ms. Susan housing projects for the poor is expensive while the work Mamdouh Hamza housing construction in better than half the cost of perhaps the nightmare that haunts senior officials and prevents them from sleep .. To hear Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak project Mamdouh Hamza successful proceed to them this logical question: how could Dr. Mamdouh Hamza to implement the dwellings of the poor at half the cost to Tqdunha? III: The success of the project will prove Mamdouh Hamza management skills in addition to his genius and acclaimed in the field of engineering, it that may come up strongly named candidate for the ministry in any cabinet reshuffle soon. This is particularly SCARES Almertaadin some ministers fear for their jobs and they are considered Mamdouh Hamza Anyone who was in the efficiency, a serious contender could lead to removed from office. Fourthly, that the draft Mamdouh Hamza, who was adopted entirely on people's contributions do not follow any governmental or quasi-government .. He met with a successful model to be implemented in all governorates of Egypt .. Which will lead to the formation of popular will defy the government and create the best projects of its projects. And the regime in Egypt, like all totalitarian regimes, does not rest at all for the idea of the independence of the popular will, even if it comes to building houses for the poor because those who gather today to build their homes with their wealth and Holand will meet tomorrow, inevitably, to demand their political rights be wasted. The story of Mamdouh Hamza, as they are frustrating, they are useful, and I Ohdia to all those who still believe it is possible to make a revival in our country away from the reform of political .. Some people still think that if good people worked hard every Egyptian in Egypt will work without the need for democratic change ..This perception of good faith, but he was too naive to assume that authoritarianism affects only the parliament and government. Indeed, the tyranny, such as cancer, begins in political power and then spreads rapidly in all organs of the State and taste long ago allies and disability ..Tyranny leads inevitably to the corruption of the state and this corruption soon lead to the emergence of gangs of Hell within the system to be a big fortune from corruption and is willing to fight fiercely and destroy any person or idea or project to preserve the gains .. add to that tyranny offers loyalty on the efficiency and therefore give positions to loyal followers who do not often fit in substantive terms to take over the responsibility, which makes them wary of the emergence of any real efficiency of the office has been taken from them ... Thus the system becomes tyranny to rule out the awesome machine regularly genius and talented and fought them being oppressed and at the same time attract losers and landless efficiency as long as drumming and puff President and sang a master and the great achievements ... All of this ultimately leads to the deterioration of the state's performance in all areas until you reach the country into the ground, as happened in Egypt. What happened to Dr. Mamdouh Hamza, is exactly what happened before with Dr. Ahmed Zewail With all the Egyptians who excel, who tried to do something to help their country . All this confirms once again that the salvation of Egypt is holding them from the nightmare will never come, no matter how the initiatives of individual dedication, enthusiasm, those responsible for it .. Any attempt to reform away from the Democratic Change is not only a waste of effort and time. Democracy is the solution
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