BADEI: NEW IKHWAN LEADER

Mohamed Badei has been chosen by the Shura Council of Egypt’s Ikhwanul Muslemeen (Muslim Brotherhood) as its new leader. He is 67 years old and a veterinary professor at Beni Sueif University. He is the eighth supreme guide of Ikhwan which has a six-year term of leadership. Born in 1943 in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla el-Kubra, Badie was jailed for nine years in the 1960s after being accused of membership of the Brotherhood paramilitary cell. In 1994, Badie became responsible for ideological education inside the Muslim Brotherhood. In 1999, he was sentenced to nearly four years in prison together with several group members on charges of membership in an outlawed movement. Badie was elected a member of the 18-member Guidance Bureau in 1996 and 2009. He has also been on the Brotherhood’s international Shura Council since 2007.