IslamOnline.net’s Muslim Affairs section hosted a live dialogue session with Dr. Makarem El-Deiri, the Muslim Brotherhood’s only woman candidate for Egypt’s parliamentary elections. She ran in the elections’ first round and lost to the NDP’s candidate Mustafa El-Sallab, a loss that she attributes to fraud.
Below please read Dr. El-Deiri’s bio in full.
Born in 1950, Dr. Makarem El-Deiri is a graduate of Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Islamic Studies. She holds a PhD in Arabic literature and she has written several books and research papers. Together with a group of prominent scholars, she wrote the Islamic Convention on Children’s Rights.
Her husband, Ebrahim Sharaf, spent several years in political detention before he died in 2000.
