Thursday, March 14, 2013

Dr. El-Baradei?

Loved by some and hated by others, but who is Dr. Mohamed El Baradei?
Belted by so-called Islamists while on his way to vote.


A quick Google search yields the following general biographical information:
 Dr. ElBaradei is the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], an inter-governmental organization based in Vienna, and formed under the auspices of the United Nations in 1957. He was appointed to the office effective Dec. 1 1997, and re-appointed to a second term in Sept. 2001. El Baradi was born in Egypt in 1942. He gained a Bachelor’s degree in Law in 1962 at the University of Cairo, and a Doctorate in International Law at the New York University School of Law in 1974. He began his career in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1964, serving on two occasions in the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the UN in New York and Geneva. In 1980 he became a senior fellow in charge of the International Law Program at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Dr. El Baradei is married to Aida Elkachef, a kindergarden teacher at the Vienna International School. They have a daughter, Laila, a lawyer, and a son, Mostafa, a sound engineer, both of whom live and work in London, England. But perhaps the most telling information about the good doctor is found at the Italian website, http://web.tiscali.it/iranian/Notizia%20arch001/15092004c002.htm [NOTE: You must use search words “Alberadi il Presidente di AIEA,” for the Google search to bring back a hit on this site. If you can’t read Italian, Google will translate the site into English.] In the article by Dr. Kameran Pirnia, he states “...Baradei cannot be neutral toward Iran" because of claimed family relationship to Mahdavi Kani. A theorey claimed to be a US generated conspiracyfor Dr. El-Baradei's neutral position towards Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction saga.
Google search reveals that Mahdavi Kani heads up the Iranian Militant Clerics Association, one of the main political groups in Iran’s Theo-Nazi government.
On the other hand from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we derive the following:



Mohamed ElBaradei
محمد البرادعي
ElBaradei at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 25 January 2007
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
In office
1 December 1997 – 30 November 2009
Preceded byHans Blix
Succeeded byYukiya Amano
Personal details
BornMohamed Mustafa ElBaradei
(1942-06-17) 17 June 1942 (age 70)
Cairo, Egypt
Political partyConstitution Party
Alma materCairo University
Graduate Institute of International Studies
New York University
ProfessionScholar, Diplomat, Activist
ReligionIslam[1][2]
Websitewebsite
Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد مصطفى البرادعى‎, Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Barādʿī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd mosˈtˤɑfɑ (ʔe)lbæˈɾædʕi]; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat. He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations, from 1997 to 2009. He and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. ElBaradei was also an important figure in the 2011 Egyptian revolution which ousted the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
ElBaradei is currently the leader of Egypt's Constitution Party, which aims to group the liberal forces of the country, in order to protect and promote the principles and objectives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution according to liberal ideals. He is a prominent figure of the Egyptian opposition.[3]
On 5 December 2012, ElBaradei was named the coordinator of Egypt's National Salvation Front, which also includes former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi and Amr Moussa. The National Salvation Front is the coalition of the primary opposition parties against President Mohamed Morsi’s decrees.[4][5]
Family and personal life
ElBaradei was born and raised in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt. He was one of five children of Mostafa ElBaradei, an attorney who headed the Egyptian Bar Association and often found himself at odds with the regime of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. ElBaradei's father was also a supporter of democratic rights in Egypt, supporting a free press and an independent judiciary.[6]
ElBaradei is married to Aida El-Kachef, an early-childhood teacher. They have two children: a daughter, Laila, who is a lawyer living in London; and a son, Mostafa, who is an IT manager living in Cairo. They also have one granddaughter, Maya.[7]
ElBaradei speaks Arabic, English, and French, and knows “enough German to get by, at least in Vienna.”[8]

[edit] Education and early career

ElBaradei earned a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Cairo in 1962, a master's degree in international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a J.S.D.[9][10] in International Law at the New York University School of Law in 1974.
His diplomatic career began in 1964 in the Ministry of External Affairs, where he served in the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and in Geneva, in charge of political, legal, and arms-control issues. From 1974 to 1978, he was a special assistant to the foreign minister. In 1980, he became a senior fellow in charge of the International Law Program at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. From 1981 to 1987, he was also an adjunct professor of international law at the New York University School of Law.
In 1984, ElBaradei became a senior staff member of the IAEA Secretariat, serving as the agency's legal adviser (1984 to 1993) and Assistant Director General for External Relations (1993 to 1997).
ElBaradei is currently a member of both the International Law Association and the American Society of International Law.

[edit] Public career as IAEA Director General (1997-2009)

ElBaradei began to serve as Director General of the IAEA, which is based in Vienna, on 1 December 1997, succeeding Hans Blix of Sweden.[11][12] He was re-elected for two more four-year terms in 2001 and in 2005. His third and last term ended in November 2009. ElBaradei's tenure has been marked by high-profile, non-proliferation issues, which include the inspections in Iraq preceding the March 2003 invasion, and tensions over the nuclear program of Iran.

  • 1 Family and personal life
  • 2 Education and early career
  • 3 Public career as IAEA Director General (1997-2009)
  • 4 International Crisis Group
  • 5 Egyptian politics
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