Muhammad Badi'e

Muhammad Badi'e (ar: بديع محمد) is the eighth General Guide (president) of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. He has headed the Egyptian branch of the international Islamic organization since 2010. Before becoming a general guide, Badi'e had been a member of the governing council of the group, the Orientation Bureau, since 1996.

Badi'e was born in the industrial city of Mahalla al-Kubra on August 7, 1943. He graduated in veterinary medicine in Cairo in 1965.

The same year, he was arrested for the first time for his political activity in the Muslim Brotherhood, during a nationwide raid of activists; was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a military court.

Parole, along with almost all other Brotherhood prisoners in 1974 by the new Egyptian president, Anwar al-Sadat, Badi'e went to continue his studies and begin a teaching career in several Egyptian universities. Badi'e continues to work as a professor of pathology at the veterinary school at Beni Suef University.

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