Egypt detains local U.S. Embassy staffer
Ahmed Aleiba reportedly arranged meetings between U.S. officials and Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
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Gehad El-Haddad
Senior Adviser & Media Spokesperson at Muslim Brotherhood
- Egypt
- Nonprofit Organization Management
Gehad El-Haddad's Overview
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- Senior Adviser & Media Spokesperson at Muslim Brotherhood
- Steering Committee Member at Renaissance Project
- Senior Adviser, Foreign Affairs at Freedom and Justice Party
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- City Director at William J. Clinton Foundation
- Co-Founder & CEO at Qabila
- Regional Coordinator at Industrial Modernization Center
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- De Montfort University
- MaxQ Film School
- Information Technology Institute
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500+ connections
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Gehad El-Haddad's Summary
Mission-oriented professional dedicated to human-centric causes.
Experience in both Public and Private sectors with established
connections in Government, Indusry and Not for Profit sectors in both
Egypt and the UK.
A global individual with an international identity fluent in both Arabic & English and entrepreneurial in work practice. Quality prone, with the discipline of deadlines. Extensive experience in Public Relations and Project Development.
A global individual with an international identity fluent in both Arabic & English and entrepreneurial in work practice. Quality prone, with the discipline of deadlines. Extensive experience in Public Relations and Project Development.
Specialties
Non-profit management, Public Relations, Government Liaison.
Strategic advisory, Marketing Communications, Competitive Intelligence.
Infrastructure Policies, Environmental & Climate Change Policy, Project management.
Sharepoint, Sales Force, Autocad, ArcGIS, and NVivo.
Strategic advisory, Marketing Communications, Competitive Intelligence.
Infrastructure Policies, Environmental & Climate Change Policy, Project management.
Sharepoint, Sales Force, Autocad, ArcGIS, and NVivo.
Gehad El-Haddad's Experience
Senior Adviser & Media Spokesperson
Muslim Brotherhood
January 2013
– Present
(1 year 3 months)
Cairo
Steering Committee Member
Renaissance Project
February 2012
– Present
(2 years 2 months)
Cairo, Egypt
Senior Adviser, Foreign Affairs
Freedom and Justice Party
May 2011
– Present
(2 years 11 months)
Cairo, Egypt
City Director
William J. Clinton Foundation
Nonprofit; 201-500 employees;
Nonprofit Organization Management industry
August 2007
– August 2012 (5 years 1 month)
o Representing the foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative in Egypt
o Setup the foundation's office in Egypt and managed official registration.
o Identified & developed program-based projects & delivery work plans
o Built & maintained a communications network with more than 50 public organization.
o Supervised policy-making workshops & presented foundations views
o Identified and developed 6 projects and their associated stakeholders
o Presented projects to high-level government officials.
o Provided strategic advisory on Egypt to coordinate CCI’s efforts and resources.
o Developed bi-lingual communication materials and project briefings.
o Setup the foundation's office in Egypt and managed official registration.
o Identified & developed program-based projects & delivery work plans
o Built & maintained a communications network with more than 50 public organization.
o Supervised policy-making workshops & presented foundations views
o Identified and developed 6 projects and their associated stakeholders
o Presented projects to high-level government officials.
o Provided strategic advisory on Egypt to coordinate CCI’s efforts and resources.
o Developed bi-lingual communication materials and project briefings.
Co-Founder & CEO
Qabila
Privately Held; 11-50 employees;
Media Production industry
May 2010
– February 2012 (1 year 10 months)
Cairo, Egypt
Qabila was a dream shared amongst a group of creative Egyptian youth
to launch a different more genuine and true Media Production Entity
that caters to our dreams and aspirations and respects our morals and
values. The Egyptian revolution gave birth to our success with the
launch of our first music video "Kan Lazem" into becoming the most noted
Crowed-Sourced Media Production Entity in Egypt.
o Elected by Trustees to becoming Qabila's first CEO
o Lead Qabila from a working team into a standing entity
o Designed Qabila's organizational structure and mandate
o Managed the creation of a new business production division
o Co-developed many of Qabila's biggest production deals
o Worked with Qabila teams in crafting & polishing ideas
Qabila is a flat horizontal organizations. All projects are lead by teams with very fluid hand-over to specialty sub-teams within the company. Its a new paradigm in business entity with new rules and new spirit. One we hope to spread in other SMEs around Egypt and Insha'Allah the world.
o Elected by Trustees to becoming Qabila's first CEO
o Lead Qabila from a working team into a standing entity
o Designed Qabila's organizational structure and mandate
o Managed the creation of a new business production division
o Co-developed many of Qabila's biggest production deals
o Worked with Qabila teams in crafting & polishing ideas
Qabila is a flat horizontal organizations. All projects are lead by teams with very fluid hand-over to specialty sub-teams within the company. Its a new paradigm in business entity with new rules and new spirit. One we hope to spread in other SMEs around Egypt and Insha'Allah the world.
Regional Coordinator
Industrial Modernization Center
Government Agency; 201-500 employees;
Nonprofit Organization Management industry
January 2007
– August 2007 (8 months)
o Coordinated projects and services across 13 regional branches throughout Egypt.
o Reinitiated the "Egyptian Industrial Mapping" project and redesigned its work plans.
o Redesigned IMC's services portfolio based on past-usage and client needs.
o Developed IMC's "e-Tending" system from process design to integration with intranet.
o Initiated a change of business model and KPIs
o Reinitiated the "Egyptian Industrial Mapping" project and redesigned its work plans.
o Redesigned IMC's services portfolio based on past-usage and client needs.
o Developed IMC's "e-Tending" system from process design to integration with intranet.
o Initiated a change of business model and KPIs
Marketing Manager
Right Start Foundation
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees;
Civic & Social Organization industry
September 2005
– June 2006 (10 months)
o Designed & supervised printing of publications and marketing materials of the foundation.
o Co-organized the inauguration conference with 2,000+ attendees.
o Supervised the development of RSFI website & corporate events.
o Developed fund-raising & reporting documentations.
o Position was part-time
o Co-organized the inauguration conference with 2,000+ attendees.
o Supervised the development of RSFI website & corporate events.
o Developed fund-raising & reporting documentations.
o Position was part-time
Founder
egmation
Privately Held; 11-50 employees;
Animation industry
January 2005
– August 2005 (8 months)
Marketing Officer
Arabian Group For Development
March 1998
– May 2003 (5 years 3 months)
Assisting in acquisition of international exhibitors
Classifying and researching potential clients
Communicating event info and answering questions
Providing logistical & CRM support
Classifying and researching potential clients
Communicating event info and answering questions
Providing logistical & CRM support
Gehad El-Haddad's Languages
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Arabic
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English
Gehad El-Haddad's Skills & Expertise
- Non-profit Administration
- Public Relations
- Governance
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Communications
- Marketing Communications
- Competitive Intelligence
- Management Consulting
- Environmental Awareness
- Environmental Policy
- Digital Media
- Architectural Design
- ArcGIS
- Final Cut Pro
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Political Campaigns
- Political Risk Analysis
- Political Islam
- Project Management
- Community Development
Gehad El-Haddad's Volunteer Experience & Causes
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Media Strategist & Official Spokesperson
Morsy Presidential Campaign 2011
- Politics
April 2012 – July 2012 (4 months)Member of the Core Team for the successful campaign to elect Egypt's first Democratically Elected Civilian President. Member in Campaign Strategy Team, Media Strategist, Presidential Program Team, Official Spokesperson, and the Populist Campaign to Elect Morsy.
Highlights Interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7am0_SRJDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWY_EH1efmQ
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Senior Advisor
AYADI
- Poverty Alleviation
September 2011 – present (2 years 7 months)AYADI was created as an Umbrella NGO to empower, connect, and revitalise the Civil Society in Egypt. It builds on a multitude of networks through its Board Members and seeks to focus support and resources on projects critical for the development of Egypt.
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Political Advisor - Think Tank Member
Freedom & Justice Party
- Politics
February 2011 – present (3 years 2 months)Political Adviser to the Freedom & Justice Party's High-Board on issues of Foreign Affairs, Renaissance Project, Economic Development.
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Causes I care about:
- Animal Welfare
- Arts and Culture
- Children
- Civil Rights and Social Action
- Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
- Economic Empowerment
- Education
- Environment
- Health
- Human Rights
- Politics
- Poverty Alleviation
- Science and Technology
- Social Services
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Organizations I support:
- Qabila
- Clinton Foundation
- Islamic Relief
- Right Start Foundation International
- Ayadi
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Gehad El-Haddad's Education
De Montfort University
Master of Science, Strategic Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, CRM
2005 – 2006
Activities and Societies:
Flying Start Business Club
MaxQ Film School
Certificate of Filmmaking, Filmmaking
2005 – 2006
o Script Writing (based on Greek Mythologies)
o Cinematography (On Canon XL1)
o Editing (On Final Cut Pro)
o Cinematography (On Canon XL1)
o Editing (On Final Cut Pro)
Information Technology Institute
Post Graduate Diploma, Multimedia
2004 – 2005
Gehad El-Haddad's Additional Information
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Strategic Advisory, Political Advocacy, Media & PR Strategy, Children Edutainment, New technologies.
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Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals Chevening Scholars Network De Montfort Alumni Association Life Makers Foundation - Egypt Egyptian Engineers Syndicate Jump Alliance Think Tank
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British Commonwealth Chevening Award for Master Degree
Egyptian Ministry of Communication ITI Scholarship
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Mitch McConnell on beating tea party: ‘We are going to crush them’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
vowed any tea party candidates challenging establishment Republicans in
the 2014 midterm elections would not just fail — but fail miserably.
“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” he said, The New York Times reported, “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”Mr. McConnell faces concerted challenge himself, most notably from a Kentuckian named Matt Bevin, a businessman who’s branded himself a true conservative, The Blaze reported.
“Mitch McConnell is clearly in trouble in his primary, or he wouldn’t be attacking Matt Bevin and declaring war on conservatives,” the Senate Conservatives Fund’s Matt Hoskins told The New York Times.
US Navy's Next-Generation Aircraft Carrier Begins Testing Phase
US Navy's Next-Generation Aircraft Carrier Begins Testing Phase
By By Denise Chow, Staff Writer
March 9, 2014 10:26 AM
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.
The USS Ford was christened during a special ceremony in November in Newport News, Va. The massive warship is slated to officially enter service in the Navy in 2016. But first, shipbuilders will spend 26 months meticulously testing the aircraft carrier's various systems.
"We're kind of in the infancy stage of the test program, and the early returns are good," Rear Adm. Thomas Moore, program executive officer for aircraft carriers, told the Daily Press. "We have a long way to go."
The USS Ford's testing phase is longer and more labor intensive than normal because the next-generation warship incorporates many new technologies, including upgraded radar systems, more efficient nuclear power plants and electromagnetic launchers designed to more effectively propel aircraft off the carrier's deck.
The mammoth USS Ford weighs nearly 100,000 tons, and will eventually be home to more than 4,600 service people and up to 75 aircraft, according to Newport News Shipbuilding, which constructed the aircraft carrier.
The Ford-class carriers are designed to replace the Navy's existing Nimitz-class warships, which have been in operation since the 1970s. The upgraded designs feature larger flight decks, three aircraft elevators and the new ships also replace steam-powered systems with more efficient onboard electrical power.
Some lawmakers and industry officials have criticized the USS Ford — particularly for its $12.8 billion price tag — but the Navy is staunchly defending the warship and its new technologies, according to the Daily Press.
The Ford-class ships are expected to usher in a new era of American naval power, and are designed to operate for 50 years. Construction is already beginning on the next aircraft carrier in the fleet, the USS John F. Kennedy.
Follow Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science.
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Navy’s newest ship handles like a ‘Ferrari’
Navy’s newest ship handles like a ‘Ferrari’
March 14th, 2014 | Navy | Posted by Sam Fellman
A small boat makes its approach on littoral combat ship Coronado on March 10. / Mark D. Faram
The takeaway? It’s as fast as a cheetah in Air Jordans.
Cmdr. John Kochendorfer, the ship’s captain, told Faram that it handles like an Italian sports car.
“What you have here is a big military Jet Ski with a flight deck, payload areas and weapons, and the thing handles like a Ferrari,” Kochendorfer said. “This ship is built to go fast; it likes to go fast; it rides better when it goes fast.”
With a top speed of over 50 knots, the skipper isn’t lying.
For more photos and coverage of the Pacific Fleet’s newest addition, pick up Navy Times on newsstands Monday.
Exposing the Vatican-Islam Alliance
Exposing the Vatican-Islam Alliance
July 5, 2012 by 158 Comments
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The
Roman Catholic Church hailed UNESCO’s decision to grant the world
heritage status to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. According to
the Vatican authorities, the UN decision is a “diplomatic victory” for
the Palestinian Authority. Last Friday, the United Nations approved the
Palestinian bid to place Jesus’ birthplace on its list of sites of World
Heritage in danger. Israel called the decision “absurd” and “a sad
day.”The Palestinian agenda at UNESCO is the de-Judaization of the land of Israel by Islamicizing the holy sites. Oras Hamdan Taha, the Palestinian minister who deals with antiquities and gets funds from UNESCO, made clear, “it’s writing or rewriting the history of Palestine.” Less known is that the Vatican institutions are collaborating with the Palestinian autocracy.
Many Catholic groups worldwide already embraced the Palestinian myth. Pax Christi, one of the most famous Catholic organizations, on its website, repeatedly calls the Jewish site a “mosque.” Then there is the Bethlehem University of the Holy Land, the only Vatican-run educational institution in the area and whose founding can be traced back to the visit of Pope Paul VI in the holy land in 1964. The Catholic University recently launched a project about the Rachel’s Tomb. The document calls it “a historical religious site for followers of Christianity and Islam,” whose location is “on Palestinian lands.” The Vatican institution seems to ignore that all of Rachel’s Tomb belongs to Area C, which the Oslo Accords gave to Israeli jurisdiction. The very title of the Catholic project, “Rachel: An Alien in her Hometown,” suggests that the tomb is a spot hijacked by the Israelis. The tomb, the Catholic report says, “is also known by Muslims as the Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque.” According to the Vatican university, the Jewish shrines are Arab treasures stolen by the Zionists and the Israelis are no more than invading colonizers.
A few months ago, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, welcomed enthusiastically the agreement reached between Hamas and Fatah, despite both the PLO and Hamas covenants’ call for the use of violence against the Jews. Last September, Patriarch Twal, named by Pope Benedict XVI, was at the White House for a meeting with the American administration — as well as for the purpose to support the PA statehood bid at the UN.
Last January eight Catholic bishops from Europe and North America, including UK Archbishop Patrick Kelly and French Archbishop Michel Dubost, visited Gaza under Hamas control. “I asked prisoners in the largest prison in Europe (in Evry) to pray for you,” Dubost told Gazans. The inference is clear: Palestinians are living in a big prison terrified by Israel. In the same period, Father Manuel Musalam, head of Gaza’s Catholics, met with Hamas leader, Mahmoud al Zahar, and declared that “Christians are not threatened by Muslims” but that everyone faces the same problem, that of Israel’s “humiliation.”
A few weeks earlier, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales offered the Palestinians another piece of powerful propaganda: the comparison with Jesus’ passion. “We are to be freshly attentive to the needs of those who, like Jesus himself, are displaced and in discomfort,” Archbishop Vincent Nichols said during his last Christmas Mass sermon at Westminster Cathedral. “A shadow falls particularly heavily on the town of Bethlehem tonight … We pray for them tonight” It would have been more in keeping with Nicholas’ mission to mention hundreds of Christians losing their lives to Islamic terrorism and oppressed by Palestinian dictatorship.
Exposing the Vatican-Islam Alliance
July 5, 2012 by 158 Comments
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The Palestinian-Vatican pact is part of a bigger scenario, in which
the Catholic Church is adopting a tragic appeasement on Islam. As the
brave Andrew Bostom explained, the Vatican embraced “groveling
Islamophilia, accompanied by criticism of the U.S. ‘war on terrorism’ as
an ‘injustice’ to Muslims, and constant scapegoating of Israel, often
expressed with strident animus towards the Jewish State.”Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who is known for having a pro-Islam position, has been appointed by Pope Benedict as the head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. In a letter addressing his “Dear Muslim friends,” Tauran asked for Islamic help to form an alliance against atheism. The Vatican promoted “Love of God, Love of Neighbor,” the first three-day forum with Islamic leaders. The Pope agreed to meet one of the most dangerous Islamists in the Western world, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, Tariq Ramadan – the Swiss scholar who denies Israel’s right to life and who has been banned from entering the US because of his alleged association with extremists.
In the last year the Vatican also built a strong friendship with Iranian authorities and clergy. The Holy See’s course with Iran’s Ahmadinejad began in 2009 at the United Nations, when at the first day of the “Durban II” Conference, the Iranian president made a speech blasting Israel as “totally racist” and referred to the Holocaust as an “ambiguous and dubious question.” When Ahmadinejad began his rant against the Jews, all the European delegates left the conference room. The Vatican delegation didn’t say a word.
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, head of the Lebanon’s Catholic Church, then sent his envoy, Father Abdo Abou Kassem, to Teheran for a conference in support of the Palestinian Intifada and of a “Zionist-free middle east.” The conference was attended also by Hezbullah ideologue, Mohammad Raad, and by the Hamas’ leader Meshaal.
A few days before that, a delegation of clergy members of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly visited the Vatican in Rome. They met with top Catholic officials. The Iranian delegation also paid visits to several academic and scientific centers in the Vatican.
Receiving the new apostolic nuncio to Tehran, Archbishop Jean-Paul Gobel, Ahmadinejad called the Vatican a positive force for justice and peace in the world. Vatican representatives met with Muslim leaders from around the world in Teheran for “a three-day interreligious dialogue” and announced the cooperation “in the search for the common good.”
Tauran also went to Teheran to praise Iran’s “spirit of cordiality” and “the friendly Ahmadinejad,” despite the allegation, according to the annual list compiled by Open Doors International, Iran is the second worst persecutor of Christians in the world. The Vatican delegation also visited the city of Qom, a Shi’ite spiritual center in Iran where the Iranian scientists are enriching uranium at military levels.
Ahmadinejad sent a high-level delegation to Rome, headed by Mahdi Mostafavi, the president of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization in Tehran, a former foreign minister and one of Ahmadinejad’s trusted men and “spiritual advisers.”
Like Pope Pius XII’s silence during the Holocaust, the Vatican’s submission to Islamic regimes, along with its anti-Zionist policy, will be remembered as one of the greatest moral failings of the 21st Century.
Geller: When Did Pope Francis 'Become An Imam'?
In case you needed more proof that right-wing activists have qualms about Pope Francis, Pamela Geller attacked the new pope on her Islamophobic blog yesterday over his call for “affection and respect” toward Muslims. Geller writes that the pope’s new document, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), is a “disgrace” and that Francis “sanctions savagery.”
“When did he become an imam?” Geller asked.
“When did he become an imam?” Geller asked.
POPE FRANCIS SANCTIONS SAVAGERY
At a time when Christianity worldwide is under siege by Islamic jihadists, the leader of the Catholic Church claims that the quran teaches non-violence. As Christians across the Muslim world live in abject terror and fear kidnapping, rape and slaughter to the bloodcurdling cries of "Allahu akbar," the pope gives papal sanction to the savage.
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION EVANGELII GAUDIUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY, CONSECRATED PERSONS AND THE LAY FAITHFUL ON THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL IN TODAY’S WORLDVatican.va November 24, 2013:
253. In order to sustain dialogue with Islam, suitable training is essential for all involved, not only so that they can be solidly and joyfully grounded in their own identity, but so that they can also acknowledge the values of others, appreciate the concerns underlying their demands and shed light on shared beliefs. We Christians should embrace with affection and respect Muslim immigrants to our countries in the same way that we hope and ask to be received and respected in countries of Islamic tradition. I ask and I humbly entreat those countries to grant Christians freedom to worship and to practice their faith, in light of the freedom which followers of Islam enjoy in Western countries! Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.
How does he know that? When did he become an imam?
"So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks..." quran 47:4 "And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows." quran 8:60
"Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed." quran 9:111
Nothing will be gained by this refusal to face reality. Christians will still be slaughtered in the name of Islam and jihad all over the Muslim world. And now the Pope has forbidden Catholics to speak honestly about what is happening and why. It's a disgrace.
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