Nabil Na'eem

Biography:

Nabil Na'eem Abul Fattah is the founder of the Democratic Jihad Party as well as a contributor to Asharq Al-Awsat. He was also the leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad from 1988 until 1992. He was arrested by Egypt in 1991 and not released until the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He and Ismail Nasr wrote up a document abandoning violence towards the state though it did not gain much support partly because he was not theologically qualified.