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==Presidential candidacy==
==Presidential candidacy==
On 31 March 2012, the Freedom and Justice Party named him their candidate for the [[Egyptian presidential election, 2012|presidential election in May]].<ref name="WP"/><ref>{{Citation |first=David D. |last=Kirkpatrick |title=More Confident Brotherhood Names Candidate in Egypt |newspaper=New York Times |date=31 March 2012 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html}}</ref> El-Shater formally resigned from the Brotherhood in order to run for President, to avoid violating the Brotherhood's pledge not to field a candidate. The announcement of Shater's presidential candidacy is a historical first for the 83-year-old group, which originally pledged that none of their members would run for president to calm secular and western governments' fears of a complete Islamist takeover by the group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/744031 |title=Update: Muslim Brotherhood endorses Khairat al-Shater as presidential candidate |publisher=Egypt Independent |date= |accessdate=2012-04-01}}</ref> Earlier this year, Khairat El-Shater had denied any intentions for entering the presidential race on [[Al Jazeera|Al-Jazeerah]] Arabic, after Ahmed Mansour, host of the show ''Without Limits'' (''{{transl|ar|ALA-LC|bilā ḥudūd}}'' {{lang|ar|بلا حدود}}), had subtly questioned the sequence of events which later took place on the 31st March 2012. The Egyptian [[Supreme Council of the Armed Forces]] barred El-Shater from the presidential race on 14 April 2012, stating that he was only released from prison in March 2011, in violation of election rules stating that a candidate has to be released from prison for 6 years before he can become a candidate.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhvouWONOiY |title=‫لقاء خيرت الشاطر في برنامج بلا حدود‬ |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-02-08 |accessdate=2012-04-01}}</ref>
On 31 March 2012, the Freedom and Justice Party named him their candidate for the [[Egyptian presidential election, 2012|presidential election in May]].<ref name="WP"/><ref>{{Citation |first=David D. |last=Kirkpatrick |title=More Confident Brotherhood Names Candidate in Egypt |newspaper=New York Times |date=31 March 2012 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html}}</ref> El-Shater formally resigned from the Brotherhood in order to run for President, to avoid violating the Brotherhood's pledge not to field a candidate. The announcement of Shater's presidential candidacy was a historical first for the 83-year-old group, which originally pledged that none of their members would run for president to calm secular and western governments' fears of a complete Islamist takeover by the group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/744031 |title=Update: Muslim Brotherhood endorses Khairat al-Shater as presidential candidate |publisher=Egypt Independent |date= |accessdate=2012-04-01}}</ref> Earlier this year, Khairat El-Shater had denied any intentions for entering the presidential race on [[Al Jazeera|Al-Jazeerah]] Arabic, after Ahmed Mansour, host of the show ''Without Limits'' (''{{transl|ar|ALA-LC|bilā ḥudūd}}'' {{lang|ar|بلا حدود}}), had subtly questioned the sequence of events which later took place on the 31st March 2012. The Egyptian [[Supreme Council of the Armed Forces]] barred El-Shater from the presidential race on 14 April 2012, stating that he was only released from prison in March 2011, in violation of election rules stating that a candidate has to be released from prison for 6 years before he can become a candidate.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhvouWONOiY |title=‫لقاء خيرت الشاطر في برنامج بلا حدود‬ |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-02-08 |accessdate=2012-04-01}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 18:26, 26 November 2012

Khairat el-Shater
محمد خيرت الشاطر
Personal details
Born
Mohammed Khairat Saad El-Shater

(1950-05-04) 4 May 1950 (age 74)
Dakahlia, Egypt
Political partyFreedom and Justice Party
Other political
affiliations		Muslim Brotherhood
Alma materAlexandria University
Mansoura University
ProfessionEngineer
Websitewww.khairatshater.com

Mohammed Khairat Saad El-Shater[1] (Arabic: محمد خيرت سعد الشاطر, IPA: [mæˈħæmmæd ˈxæjɾæt ˈsæʕd eʃˈʃɑːtˤeɾ]; born 4 May 1950) is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and Islamist political activist. He was the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential election in 2012 before disqualification by the election commission. Previously, he was the deputy chairman ("deputy supreme guide") of the Brotherhood.

Life and career

Born in Dakahlia, Khairat El-Shater joined the youth wing of the Nasserist Arab Socialist Union at age 16. He studied engineering at the Alexandria University. There he participated in the 1968 student protests against the government. After serving in the military for two years, El-Shater studied for a Master's degree and worked as a lecturer at the Mansoura University. After president Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981 El-Shater was exiled as an Islamist dissident, and left for England. After returning in the mid-1980s, he became an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 1995, he became head of the Brotherhood's Greater Cairo branch.[2]

El-Shater has led a successful furniture and textile business with branches in Cairo's luxurious shopping malls, which earned him a fortune of several millions.[2][3][4] He is considered a main financier[3][5] and chief strategist of the Brotherhood.[6] Under the Mubarak regime, he was imprisoned from 2007 until his release by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in March 2011.[7] Following the victory of the Freedom and Justice Party (parliamentary wing of the Muslim Brotherhood) in the 2011/12 parliamentary election, El-Shater was tipped as a likely candidate for Prime Minister of a coalition government.[8][9] The Middle East researcher Avi Asher-Schapiro considers El-Shater to be a strong advocate of privatization and free market.[3][4]

Even though he is the nominal number two in the Brotherhood's hierarchy, some consider him its actual leader. In the eyes of many analysts and activists, he is one of the main reasons behind the anti-revolutionary style of politics the MB followed since the fall of Mubarak. He is also claimed to be responsible for the expulsion of the dissident Brotherhood member Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and his supporters.[2]

Presidential candidacy

On 31 March 2012, the Freedom and Justice Party named him their candidate for the presidential election in May.[6][10] El-Shater formally resigned from the Brotherhood in order to run for President, to avoid violating the Brotherhood's pledge not to field a candidate. The announcement of Shater's presidential candidacy was a historical first for the 83-year-old group, which originally pledged that none of their members would run for president to calm secular and western governments' fears of a complete Islamist takeover by the group.[11] Earlier this year, Khairat El-Shater had denied any intentions for entering the presidential race on Al-Jazeerah Arabic, after Ahmed Mansour, host of the show Without Limits (bilā ḥudūd بلا حدود), had subtly questioned the sequence of events which later took place on the 31st March 2012. The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces barred El-Shater from the presidential race on 14 April 2012, stating that he was only released from prison in March 2011, in violation of election rules stating that a candidate has to be released from prison for 6 years before he can become a candidate.[12]

References

  1. ^ Prisoners of Faith Campaign Pack: Muslim Brotherhood - Khairat Al-Shater, Islamic Human Rights Commission, May 2007, retrieved on 2 April 2012
  2. ^ a b c Howeidy, Amira (29 March 2012), "Meet the Brotherhood's enforcer: Khairat El-Shater", Ahram Online
  3. ^ a b c Abul-Magd, Zeinab (13 February 2012), "The Brotherhood's businessmen", Egypt Independent, retrieved 15 February 2012
  4. ^ a b Asher-Schapiro, Avi (26 January 2012), "The GOP Brotherhood of Egypt", Salon, retrieved 15 February 2012
  5. ^ "Rached Ghannouchi, Khairat El Shater", The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy, 2011, retrieved 15 February 2012 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  6. ^ a b "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood fields deputy leader as presidential candidate", Washington Post, 31 March 2012
  7. ^ "Egypt: IHRC welcomes release of Khairat Al-Shater", Bikya Masr, 2 March 2011, retrieved 15 February 2012
  8. ^ "Muslim Brotherhood picks members of proposed coalition govt", Egypt Independent, 13 February 2012, retrieved 15 February 2012
  9. ^ Bar'el, Zvi (14 February 2012), "The Muslim Brotherhood prepares for Egypt's new government", Haaretz, retrieved 16 February 2012
  10. ^ Kirkpatrick, David D. (31 March 2012), "More Confident Brotherhood Names Candidate in Egypt", New York Times
  11. ^ "Update: Muslim Brotherhood endorses Khairat al-Shater as presidential candidate". Egypt Independent. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
  12. ^ "‫لقاء خيرت الشاطر في برنامج بلا حدود‬". YouTube. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-04-01.

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