Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.