Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Mahdi Akef
Born: July 28, 1928
Died: September 22, 2017 (aged 89)
Bio: Mohammed Mahdi Akef was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egypt-based Islamic political movement, from 2004 until 2010. He assumed the post, that of "general guide" upon the death of his predecessor, Ma'mun al-Hudaybi.







