Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 02/2011

Mohamed ElBaradei: On the Record

February 2011

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

A crucial player in Egypt's evolving political crisis, Mohammed El-Baradei is a lawyer by profession and the former head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, from which he retired last year. He was awarded -- along with the IAEA -- the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic role in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The following is a sampling of his comments on Egypt, the United States, Israel, and Iran.