Draft:Muhammad Hikmat Walid

Muhammad Hikmat Walid
Name	Muhammad Hikmat Walid
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Personal Details
Birth Place	Latakia, Syria
Brith Date	1944
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Religion	Islam

Muhammad Hikmat Walid (born 1944 in Latakia) is a Syrian physician, writer, and politician. He holds the position of General Supervisor of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria; he was elected as the General Supervisor of the Muslim Brotherhood by the Brotherhood's Shura Council on 6 November 2014. In 2017, Muhammad Hikmat was appointed to the same title again.

Biography

He was born in 1944 in the city of Latakia, Syria, and completed his secondary education there. He obtained a human medicine degree from Damascus University in 1968, then traveled to Britain for specialization in ophthalmology and obtained a specialized degree in ophthalmology in 1973. Then, in 1980, he obtained a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland for ophthalmology and surgery.

He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah until 1988, and then as an ophthalmology consultant at Jeddah Section Hospital.

Activities

Literary Activities

He has various literary interests and has published many of his poems and articles in the following newspapers and magazines: Al-Muslimun, Al-Nadwa, Al-Faisal, Jamiat Al-Kuwait, Al-Islah, Al-Bayan, and Al-Mishkat. Muhammad Hikmat has also been a member of the International Association of Islamic Literature since 1989.

Political Activities

Muhammad Hikmat Walid joined a group of Syrian opposition political institutions and also served as the head of the National Party for Justice and Constitution Wa'ad. He was elected as the General Supervisor of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria by the council of this group on 6 November 2014, succeeding Mohammed Riyad al-Shaqfeh. He is considered the first General Supervisor of this group from Syria. When this group was initially besieged and their establishment was limited to the cities of Aleppo and Hama. Hikmat Walid was appointed as the twelfth General Supervisor of the Muslim Brotherhood after the restrictions were lifted. He was again elected as the General Supervisor of the Brotherhood in 2019.