Process of implanting principles of citizenship culture requires ongoing efforts to convert these principles from a text in the constitution to an organic part of our cultural tissue, whether social or political. This will include also our daily behaviors of rights and duties among us. The same coordinated efforts should also be practiced by all institutions that take part in formulating the social and mental makeup. Of course, it comprises educational institutions, knowledge and media abidng by the national committment from the one side and the future vision from the other.

Our lawmakers reiterated that constitutional amendments proposed by President Mubarak will impose some modifications or stipulation of texts or articles now applied in various domains. Despite the difficulty of such process, it will be easier and more rapid than to reformulate the thought and culture of the society and cadres of the state's administrative and executive bodies. They were the thoughts and culture pre-formulated by the Egyptian national movement.

Civil societies have had the principal role in devising the bond of the homeland awareness. So, such civil societies have the core point of registering the objective awareness of homeland and its components of all sects, genres and religions. Reconsideration and encouragement of these institutions should be a main reason to refurbish our political and social culture.

Sami Khashaba
Al-Ahram
4/2/2007