13 Facts About Essam el-Erian

Essam al-Din Muhammad Hussein el-Erian was an Egyptian physician and politician.

Essam el-Erian was the vice chairman of the Freedom And Justice Party.

Essam el-Erian was the paternal cousin of Sami Amin Al-Arian.

Essam el-Erian graduated from the School of Medicine in the Cairo University with honors in 1977, and received a Bachelor of Law from the same university.

Essam el-Erian earned a master's degree in Pathology in 1986 from Cairo University.

Essam el-Erian earned a bachelor's in Islamic Studies and a bachelor's in History from al-Azhar University respectively in 1999 and 2000.

Essam el-Erian was enrolled for a medical doctorate at Cairo University and for a degree in common law at the same university, a program he did not complete due to his imprisonment.

Essam el-Erian was elected as a member of the board of directors of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate in 1986, being the assistant of the general secretary of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate.

Essam el-Erian was a founding member of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.

In 2012 during an interview on Egypt's Dream TV, Essam el-Erian called on former Egyptian Jews who had immigrated to Israel and their descendants to return to Egypt, and called for all Israeli Jews to return to their countries of origin, be it "Poland, Egypt, or anywhere", and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

Essam el-Erian stated that although his party was against Zionism, it was not against the Jews, stating that "they have a complicated history, but the Jewish motherland is not Israel".

Essam el-Erian was then tried in a military court for the members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Essam el-Erian was imprisoned from 1995 to 2000, for a span of five years.