How to correctly read the Cairo University "Mr. Koike is a graduate" statement

How to correctly read the Cairo University "Mr. Koike is a graduate" statement

The alleged misrepresentation of Governor Yuriko Koike's educational background as "Cairo graduate" has been talked about before the election of the governor. JBpress has also posted articles that pursue suspicion . Meanwhile, the Egyptian Embassy in Japan issued a statement on June 9 through Cairo University, saying that Governor Koike "certifies that he graduated." However, Yoshihiro Asakawa, a journalist who was a former graduate of Cairo University (dropped out in 1995), points out that the statement should not be taken according to Japanese common sense. What kind of university is Cairo University? What is the danger of Mr. Koike's Egyptian connections that can be seen behind the statement? Mr. Asakawa told me. (JBpress)

Who controls the power of Cairo University?

── How does Mr. Asakawa take this statement from the University of Cairo saying “Yuriko Koike has graduated from Cairo University”? Is the statement credible?

Mr. Yoshihiro Asakawa (hereinafter referred to as “Asakawa”) Since he has an educational background, the statement of Cairo University may have been able to get rid of the falsehood in a single shot... According to Japanese common sense There will be many people. However, the University of Cairo is not such a sick, matomo university.

What kind of university is it?

 The power of Asakawa Cairo University is completely controlled by the army of the warlord dictatorship, Egypt, and the information department that keeps cried children silent. Speaking of a university, if you try to understand it from a peaceful, lukewarm image of “a garden of learning” or “freedom of learning,” you will miss the essence.

Even the hard-lined students are silent about the management of university powers. More than 100 people have been arrested and nearly 10 have died since 2010, as they protest and protest. It is not uncommon for the killed university security forces to define student deaths as "extra-legal deaths" and to judge arrested persons in "military courts."

his statement from Cairo University also shows its power. "Japanese journalists" criticized Koike's graduation for reliability and criticized "I can't overlook it," and warned that "I will take measures in compliance with Egyptian laws." is. He is trying to block and punish the act of interviewing and reporting without showing any grounds or objections. In fact, many journalists are being held in military prison simply because they covered Egypt. That number is the third worst after China and Turkey (ICP: Journalist Conservation Commission 2019 survey).

When I was a student at Cairo University, I was repeatedly struck by detention centers and solitary cells, tortured, and almost erased. This is a "forced disappearance" crackdown method, in which no arrest or prosecution was taken, no trial was received, and the detention center was wandering around, leaving the world in the form of "missing."

 Fortunately, I have succeeded in escaping... I was interested in the history of Cairo University and the darkness of the structure of power from such a painful personal experience, and I have conducted my own research.

I wrote in detail in my book  " Cairo University "The Chaos of Struggle and Peace" (Best New Book), which summarizes the results, but at the time of foundation in 1908, Cairo University was born as the first liberal modern university in the Middle East and Africa. Did. However, in 1952 a major shift will occur. There was a military coup by the Free Lieutenant Corps. It is the "Nasser Revolution" that appears in textbooks of world history.

 After the revolution, Nasser will send a Revolutionary Guard to the campus to put intellectuals and elite students at Cairo University under control. On the other hand, professors and students from the liberals and the Muslim Brotherhood united in an attempt to maintain a free university. In 1954, Cairo University was seized by the military and placed under the Revolutionary Council (known as "Cairo Great Purge" in modern Egyptian history). Since then, the Cairo University tradition of military rule continues.

Words thrown by Mr. Koike's father

── How is the history of Cairo University linked to Governor Koike's educational background?

Asakawa, in  fact, is one of the central figures in the Nasser Revolution, Muhammad Abdulkar del Hatem (1918-2015), who was the backing of Koike's Cairo University days.

 Who is Hartem? He is the Head of Information, Culture and Media of the Revolutionary Council that purged Cairo University and is the person who founded the Egyptian Ministry of Information and was in control of all dictatorship media (TV, radio and newspapers) for many years. Some historians refer to Mr. Hatem as "the father of the propaganda of the Arab world" because of his fake information warfare in the Middle East war with Israel. Through media domination, he has served as an aide to Sadat, Mubarak and the third dictator after Nasser's death.

 Mr. Koike's skill in media control may be inherited from propaganda's father.

── Mr. Hartem will also appear in "Yuriko Koike's Resume of Illusion" (Bunkei Shunju July 2018 issue) by Taeko Ishii, who triggered the alleged educational fraud. A cohabiting woman said, “Mr. Koike entered the school in October 1973, when he was transferred to the second grade. I was asked to consider it as one year and I was admitted, and the tuition and enrollment fees were free.”

Asakawa In  fact, without the backing of the powers, we can't transfer to the second year. You can see from my experience. I myself had a formal admission to the private Cairo American University and earned a formal credit for one year, but I am reentering the Cairo National University from the first year. This is because there is no credit exchange system between private and national in Egypt. The same is true of all the Egyptian acquaintances who left Cairo American University and moved to Cairo University like me. There are no exceptions to the laws of the Ministry of Higher Education, which has jurisdiction over universities.

Regarding Mr. Koike's case, whether it is regarded as "regular enrollment" by the influential person's connection or as "illegal enrollment" due to the fairness of the system is a kind of difference in values. However, it is true that the act of entrusting to a power in charge of the Cairo University and enrolling in it was unusual. It is not unusual for the Cairo University statement to purposely emphasize "regular procedures" and to announce the statement through the diplomatic route of the Embassy rather than the official website of the university. It is a manifestation of the will of the warlord state Egypt.

Mr. Taeko Ishii's interview result that "Koike's father asked Mr. Hartem" is in agreement with my actual experience. This is from the communication with Mr. Koike's father, Mr. Yujiro.

 When I was a university student in Cairo, I went to a Japanese restaurant in the center of Cairo run by the Koike family for a meal. When I was introduced to Yujiro by an acquaintance, "Asakawa-kun is a junior of Yuriko, a student who has entered Cairo University formal." "I can't do that. I often remember being suddenly thrown at words.

 At that time, I was confused as to what to say, but after that, I heard the relationship between Mr. Koike and Mr. Hartem and the rumor of illegal entrance and graduation, and Yujiro every time I went to the Japanese restaurant of the Koike family. I was relentlessly preached and realized.

. There, I came from a countryside in Japan where I couldn't understand the bones of a horse. ``I knew that my daughter's existence value was lowered when I learned that I had been enrolled in the school without a regular enrollment.

...At that time, while calmly analyzing Mr. Yujiro's deep psychology, it is absurd that "You can understand how hard Yuriko worked hard to study, compared to you ..." Every time I received such a sermon, I was chilled by the negative feelings toward me. I don't know if it's a too deep affection for my daughter, but I know she was hitting me with the odd feeling of turning inside out.