The blessed movement named July 23 Revolution had the knight, Youssef Seddik as its leader, where he headed to the leadership headquarters, an hour earlier, handed it over to Gamal Abdel Nasser and then it became a revolution. One day, in a meeting at the Revolutionary Command Council, Nasser said, "Would you believe that Khaled Mohy el-Deen, the descendant of Pashas has a mechanic at the air force for boss?" referring to Sayed Solaiman Refa'ei (Badr), the one in charge of politics at, Democratic Movement for National Liberation (HADITU). The Free Officers Movement used to have their leaflets printed at HADITU's artistic apparatus and right after the revolution, they were arrested. When Khaled Mohy el-Deen asked Nasser as to why, he replied, "Whoever prints for us, can print for others." One day, Mohy el-Deen told Nasser jokingly, "Aye, Nasser." Except he never responded and that's when he knew Nasser was then the president. Mohy el-Deen once told us in al-Tagamoa' Newspaper, "Win the majority at the central committee, then do what you please." Khaled Mohy el-Deen is the real July Revolution hero. He was an Egyptian Army officer during the monarchy, a prominent Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council leader and a member of the parliament for many terms. He's the founder of the National Progressive Tagamoa' party, till he retreated from the governmental work and political life. He was born in the town of Kafr Shukr, Qualyubiya, August 17, 1922. He graaduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1940 and in 1944 he became one of the Free Officers co-founders, who overthrew King Faruq in 1952 during which he was a major. In 1951, he had his bachelor degree in commerce, when most officers sought for degrees in civil sciences after the revolution to assume administrative posts, later on. Nasser called him, "The Red Major" referring to his leftist ideas and Mohy el-Deen called on officers to get back to their barracks and leave the arena for a democratic set of rules, Nasser and most of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council didn't accept that. Consequently, Mohy el-Deen quit the council and preferred – probably after being pressured by Nasser- to fly to Switzerland for a while. Upon coming back he was an electoral candidate for the National Assembly on behalf of Kafr Shukr where he won the elections and was appointed a chairman for a specialized committee at the National Assembly in the early sixties, to sort out the displaced Nubians' issue. Mohy el-Deen was also the chairman and chief editor of Akhbar al-Youm publishing house in the years of 1964 and 1965 and he's one of the co-founders of the World Peace Council and chairman of the Egyptian committee for peace and disarmament. He won the Lenin Peace Award in 1970 and later founded the Arab Tagamoa' party, in April 10, 1976. Nasser accused him of spying for Russia which is a common accusation towards all the Arab leftists in 1970s and 1980s. In the years preceding his retirement, he refused to take part in the presidential elections saying it won't be neither clean nor honorable and that his participation will be used as a pillar for Mubarak's legitimacy. His memoirs were published, titled, "Now, I speak: Religion and Communism". Mohy el-Deen's statement about what happened during the July 23 Revolution is rather valuable and emanated from a personal nature; for he was one of the first six to form the Free Officers and he was the closest to Nasser apart from being a pro-democracy politician.
