Wafik Moustafa
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16 July 1948
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Wafik Moustafa (Arabic: وفيق مصطفى, born 16 July in Cairo) is a London-based doctor and British politician, author and political commentator on several Middle Eastern and international TV channels. He is the author of Glass House – The Arab World’s Eventful Century, Egypt – The Elusive Arab Spring, Egypt - A Nation in Crisis, published in London, as well as the founder and Chairman of the British Arab Network.
BBC Radio Arabic Service broadcast a two-hour special programme in August 2014 about Moustafa's career, social and political activities in the UK, including discussion about his book Egypt the Elusive Arab Spring.[citation needed]
Political activities
Moustafa stood as a Conservative candidate for Bootle in Sefton, Merseyside in 2005.[1] In this traditionally safe Labour seat, he came a distant third behind the Liberal Democrats. Moustafa also founded the Conservative Arab Network (CAN).[citation needed]
As a representative of the Muslim Conservative Network UK, Moustafa attended a session on The Role of Parliaments for Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies and Combating Violent extremism at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 21 July 2016.[2]
He attended the International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy and Religion 2014, "The Promotion of World Peace through Inter-Faith Dialogue & the Unity of Faiths".[3]
In July 2014, Moustafa delivered a keynote speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Global Ethics conference (IPCGE) held at UNESCO HQ in Paris. His theme message was "We have to think culture of peace to achieve global harmony".[4]
Moustafa spoke at DAVOS Greek House on 15 January 2024 about the need to eliminate the culture of hate from textbooks and about the reform of the education system in Middle Eastern countries.[5]
Author
Glass House - The Arab World’s Eventful Century, published in 2023 - Dr Moustafa’s clinical and pragmatic moral assessment comes up with some surprising points that challenge much of the established thinking. It feels as though we’re confronted with a historical weight of irony that defies reason and all known physics, as a sequence of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The casual relationship with the truth has been an integral component of every regime. [6]
Egypt - A nation in Crisis, published in 2016, is a book that covers the upheavals that took place in Egypt and other Arab countries and particular emphasis on the military coup led by General Sisi, the top of the first elected President in Egyptian history. It also expands on the role of the United States in the Middle East over the last two centuries.
On the third anniversary of the Arab Spring in Egypt, in 2014, Gilgamesh in London published Moustafa's book Egypt – The Elusive Arab Spring.[7]