Arabic: محمد ابو الغار Born: July 2, 1940 Mohamed Abul Ghar is a gynecologist and political critic. He entered the faculty of medicine in 1956, specializing in gynecology, and has made his name as a pioneer of assisted fertility in Egypt. A political critic since the late 1950s, Abul Ghar has written op-eds and letters on many subjects, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, police brutality and the use of torture, the decline of the quality of education, as well as photography, poetry and art. He also wrote a memoir on the decline of the middle class since the 1952 revolution. Abul Ghar is the spokesman and founder of the March 9th Movement for the Independence of Universities. The movement has been highly critical of public universities in Egypt, including Cairo University, where Abul Ghar works as a professor. He is also a spokesman for the National Association for Change, headed by Mohamed el-Baradei, where he played a role in voicing the concerns of the protestors during the 25 January revolution, refusing to negotiate with the government until former president Hosni Mubarak stepped down. After the revolution, Abul Ghar was a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party along with Amr Hamzawy and others.
