Know this name: Dr. Mona Mena, the female doctor who has ended the Muslim Brotherhood’s control over Egypt’s Doctors Syndicate after 28 years of total domination! A broad independent coalition has won 11 of the 12 seats available on the Doctors Syndicate's main board, ending the longstanding dominance of the Islamist group over the body. The Independence list included members of activist groups “Doctors Without Rights” and “Tahrir Doctors,” as well as independent candidates. Following this victory, Mena was elected as secretary-general of the syndicate. She is the first woman to become secretary-general of the Doctors Syndicate since 1949 and she is also the only Christian woman to ever be elected for this position. For Egypt now to advance forward toward true citizenship by looking up to things which were possible back in 1949 is a bit ironic but shows the ugly mask which the Brotherhood tried to cast on the face of Egypt over decades of infiltrating society in an attempt to change Egyptian identity and culture. It has taken two revolutions so far, and the battle still continues. After all, Egypt gave birth to Merit-PTA, the first female doctor in recorded history.

A pediatrician, leftist revolutionary and an avid defender of Egyptians’ right for decent state-guaranteed medical care, Mena wants Egypt to increase its public health care budget  from 4% to 15% of government spending. Mena is also a veteran who long fought for doctors' rights, where she was instrumental in organizing several strikes with innovative ways of protesting. On one occasion, protesting doctors organized a campaign where they cleaned cars in the streets to voice their anger over ludicrously low compensation and deteriorating safety and working conditions.

Mena is a co-founder of “Doctors Without Rights,” “Tahrir Doctors” and “Independent Doctors Stream.” The messiah of Tahrir, as Mena is also known, practically started the first field hospital in Tahrir Square during the January 25 Revolution, when news came that injured protesters were being arrested by the police when they went to hospitals for treatment in 2011.

Despite the Brotherhood's staggering failure in the Doctors Syndicate’s mid-term elections, Mena believes that the Brotherhood candidates got many sympathy votes as a result of the security campaign and arrests of many Muslim Brotherhood members and leaders. The significance of Mena and the Independent Doctors’ victory over the Brotherhood goes far beyond who controls the Doctors Syndicate or even other unions. The House of Wisdom, as the Doctors Syndicate is known in Egypt, was used by the Brotherhood in a variety of purposes — from fundraising to recruiting of mushed. Karat al-Shatter, deputy leader of the Brotherhood, started his business empire from the lucrative monopoly the Brotherhood’s control over unions awarded him over organizing “Durable and Appliances Expose” to members of various syndicates. Union funds were siphoned by the Brotherhood and the syndicates were used to infiltrate and control society at grassroots level. The Muslim Brotherhood controlled the “Humanitarian Relief” committee in the Doctors Syndicate. The committee became yet another arm for the Brotherhood clandestine operations rather than a humanitarian body. According to National Security Agency’s investigations, the committee — which received donations from all over Egypt — would allegedly transfer funds to the Brotherhood’s International organization, which would in turn redirect the money to the Brotherhood leaders in Egypt. The “Relief Committee” had 300 million Egyptian pounds ($43 million) in cash according to its last report.